From California Consulting
CalOES: Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)
Deadline: Rolling NOI
Amount: Can fund both planning and implementation. Planning: $150,000 for single jurisdiction plan, $250,000 for multi-jurisdiction plan. Implementation: no maximum for grant award requests
Match: Generally, HMA funds may be used to pay up to 75% of the eligible activity costs. The remaining 25% of eligible activity costs are derived from non-Federal sources
Eligibility: States, local communities and tribal governments
https://www.caloes.ca.gov/office-of-the-director/operations/recovery-dir...
rant-opportunities/hma-hmgp/
Funding Priorities:
● Local Hazard Mitigation Plans (LHMP) updates that will expire within 24 months.
● All other LHMP updates.
● Shovel ready projects with a high level of design that can begin construction within 90 days of
FEMA approval, in declared counties.
● Shovel ready projects with a high level of design that can begin constructions within 90 days of
FEMA approval, in all other counties.
● Whole community risk reduction/large critical infrastructure wildfire projects.
● Whole community risk reduction/large critical infrastructure projects for other hazard types.
● Wildfire projects in any county.
● All hazard type projects in any county.
● Planning related activities.
● Five percent (5%) Initiative projects.
California Coastal Conservancy
Deadline: Rolling
Amount: There are no maximum or minimum grant amounts for this funding; however, it is anticipated
that most grants will be between $200,000 and $5,000,000.
Match: No
https://scc.ca.gov/grants/
The Coastal Conservancy funds a wide variety of projects along the California coast, San Francisco Bay, and in coastal watersheds to increase availability of beaches, parks and trails for the public, protect and restore natural lands and wildlife habitat, preserve working lands, and increase community resilience to the impacts of climate change including wildfire resilience. The Conservancy will fund most stages of a project including: pre-project feasibility studies, property acquisition, project planning including community involvement, design, environmental review, permitting, construction, and project-related monitoring. We do not fund operation and maintenance activities.
CalHVIP: Small Fleet Incentive Funding
Deadline: Opens October 21st, first come first serve
Amount: $30.77M available, voucher amounts vary.
Match: No
Link: https://californiahvip.org/funding/
Small Business V oucher Amounts: Public and non-profit fleets with a global fleet of 20 or fewer trucks, and private fleets with 20 or fewer trucks and $15 million or less of annual revenue are eligible for the small fleet voucher amount. Fleets may use the small fleet voucher for a lifetime maximum of 5 vehicles. Fleet sizes include vehicles registered as non-operational. Any voucher in excess of 5 will be eligible for the base voucher amount. See the IM for more details.
CPUC: Cal Advanced Services Broadband Adoption Account
Deadline: January 1, 2026
Amount: The CASF Adoption Account is authorized $20.024 million for fiscal year 2023-2024 to provide grants to increase publicly available or after-school broadband access and digital inclusion.
Match: Yes, 15%
Link: https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/industries-and-topics/internet-and-phone/califor...
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Purpose: Pursuant to Public Utilities (Pub. Util.) Code section 281, moneys in the CASF Adoption Account are available to the Commission to award grants to increase publicly available or after-school broadband access and digital inclusion, such as grants for digital literacy training programs and public education to communities with limited broadband adoption. The Commission is required to give preference to programs and projects in communities with demonstrated low broadband access, including low-income communities, senior citizen communities, and communities facing socioeconomic barriers to broadband adoption.
Firehouse Subs LIFE-SA VING EQUIPMENT Grant
Deadline: Thursday, January 8, 2026
Amount: $15,000 to $40,000
Match: No
Link: https://grants.firehousesubs.com/
The primary focus of the Life-Saving Equipment Grant revolves around providing first responders with the appropriate, quality much-needed equipment and technology to improve their life-saving capabilities. This includes, but is not limited to: Vehicle extrication tools, automated external defibrillators (AEDs), bunker gear, thermal imaging cameras, automated chest compression systems, vehicle stabilization struts, bulletproof vests, all-terrain vehicles, fire hoses.
CalRecycle: Tire Derived Aggregate
Deadline: January 13, 2026 (Cycle 27)
Amount: Up to $750,000 per grant cycle
Match: No
Eligibility: Local government agencies, state agencies, qualifying Indian Tribes, and private, for-profit
entities.
Link: https://calrecycle.ca.gov/tires/grants/tda/fy202526/?utm_medium=email&ut...
Description: The Tire-Derived Aggregate (TDA) Grant Program is designed to promote the use of recycled tires in civil engineering projects and other applications. TDA is a versatile, lightweight, and cost-effective alternative to conventional construction materials, and it can be used in a variety of applications, including retaining wall backfill, lightweight embankment fill, and vibration mitigation. Projects generally fall into one of five categories (see TDA Uses for more complete descriptions):
Category 1: Mechanically Stabilized TDA (retaining walls).
Category 2: Low Impact Development (storm water mitigation including storm water infiltration
galleries).
Category 3: Lightweight fill (slope stabilization, embankment fill, landslide repair, and retaining walls).
Category 4: Vibration mitigation (under rail lines).
Category 5: Landfill application (aggregate replacement projects such as leachate and gas collection systems, drainage layers, leachate injection). Projects that are currently underway or that have been completed at the same location within the same facility within three years of application are not eligible. Landfill application projects do not include use of shredded waste tires as alternative daily cover or alternative intermediate cover.
EPA: Multipurpose, Assessment, RLF, and Cleanup (MARC) Grants
Deadline: January 28th, 2025
Amount: MAX: Multipurpose: $1,000,000; Community Wide Assessment: $500,000; Assessment
Coalition: $1,500,000; Clean Up: $5,000,000
Match: Not Required
https://www.epa.gov/brownfields/marc-grant-application-resources#Open%20...
Grants offered by the Brownfields Program may be used to address sites contaminated by hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants (including hazardous substances co-mingled with petroleum) and petroleum. Please visit the Types of Brownfields Grant Funding for an overview of the Multipurpose, Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Grants.
HCD: Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program
Deadline: January 30, 2026
Amount: Up to $34 million available in total. Maximum award per jurisdiction is $3.6 million.
Match: Not required, but leveraging other funding is encouraged.
Eligibility: Non-entitlement cities, counties, and Units of General Local Government (UGLGs) in California. Nonprofits and Tribes can receive funding via subrecipient agreements with eligible applicants.
Link: CDBG Program Information
Summary: The California Department of Housing and Community Development (Department) announces the availability of approximately $27 million in funding available through the federal Small Cities Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG) for the 2025 funding year. If additional resources become available either through disencumbrances of prior year funding or through the availability of future year funding, the Department has the sole discretion to fund eligible applications on a competitive basis. The objectives of the CDBG program are to develop viable communities by the provision of decent affordable housing, a suitable living environment, and to expand economic opportunities, principally for the benefit of Low- and Moderate-Income (LMI) persons, families, households, and neighborhoods. The following activity types are available:
a.Public Service and Planning
b.Programs
●Housing Programs
●Economic Development Programs (ED Programs)
c. Projects
●Public Facilities Projects
●Infrastructure Projects
●Housing Projects
California Air Resources Board: FY 2023-24 Planning and Capacity Building RFA (Based on Draft Requirements)
Deadline: February 10, 2026
Amount: Up to $500,000 per project
Match: No
Eligibility: Community-based Organizations (CBO), tribal governments, local governments, public
schools
URL: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/documents/2025-planning-and-capacity-bu...
Summary: Planning and Capacity Building (Planning) is part of the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) suite of Sustainable Community-Based Transportation Equity initiatives. This also includes Clean Mobility Options (CMO), the Clean Mobility in Schools (CMIS), and the Sustainable Transportation Equity Project (STEP). Together, these programs fund community-led planning and mobility strategies that support a statewide shift toward clean, shared, and active transportation — especially in historically under-resourced communities. Planning provides grants to help communities across California build the foundations for clean and equitable transportation. These grants support activities like outreach, needs assessments, workforce development, local planning, and community-led coordination. Many grantees use Planning funds to get ready for future opportunities through STEP, CMIS, or CMO.
Requirements:
· Partnership between a CBO and a local government is required to apply
· Projects must be completed by 12/31/27
· Applicants are not expected to have fully developed plans at submission. This grant is
intended to support project development over time;
· More than 50% of the Project Community must be within disadvantaged or low-income
census tracts.
CARB encourages partnerships that:
· Prioritize community voices and lived experience
· Reflect the cultural and geographic context of the Project Community
· Share power and decision-making authority with Community Partners
Eligible projects should:
· Increase transportation equity in disadvantaged or low-income communities
· Build local readiness to apply for future implementation grants
· Reflect goals and priorities identified by community members
Examples of eligible project types include:
· Community outreach and education around clean transportation options
· Transportation needs assessments (including surveys, listening sessions, and data
gathering)
· Plans that connect clean mobility to housing, land use, or public health
· Workforce training programs for clean transportation careers
· School-based planning for electric school buses or student-safe routes
· Early-stage collaboration or partnership-building (e.g., developing MOUs, convening
stakeholders)
HCD: Prohousing Incentive Program (PIP)
Deadline: March 31st, 2026
Match: Not required
Eligibility: Jurisdictions with a prohousing designation
Link: https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-and-funding/programs-active/prohousing-inc...
Eligible Applicants must use award funds towards planning or implementation activities related to housing and community development and limited to activities that conform with eligible uses pursuant to Health and Safety Code section 50470(b)(2)(D):
1. The predevelopment, development, acquisition, rehabilitation, and preservation of multifamily, residential live-work, rental housing that is affordable to extremely low-, very low-, low-, and moderate-income households, including necessary operating subsidies.
2. Affordable rental and ownership housing that meets the needs of a growing workforce earning up to 120 percent of area median income, or 150 percent of area median income in high-cost areas.
3. Matching portions of funds placed into local or regional housing trust funds.
4. Matching portions of funds available through the Low- and ModerateIncome Housing Asset
Fund pursuant to Health and Safety Code section 34176(d).
5. Capitalized reserves for services connected to the creation of new permanent supportive housing,
including, but not limited to, developments funded through the Veterans Housing and
Homelessness Prevention Bond Act of 2014.
6. Assisting persons who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness, including providing rapid
rehousing, rental assistance, navigation centers, emergency shelters, and the new construction,
rehabilitation, and preservation of permanent and transitional housing.
7. Accessibility modifications.
8. Efforts to acquire and rehabilitate foreclosed or vacant homes.
9. Homeownership opportunities, including, but not limited to, down payment assistance.
10. Fiscal incentives or matching funds to local agencies that approve new housing for extremely
low-, very low-, low-, and moderate-income households.
EDA: FY25 Disaster Supplemental Grant
Deadline: Industry Transformation Grants due March 3rd, 2026, all other applications are accepted on a
rolling basis.
Amount:
● Readiness Path: $250,000 to $500,000
● Implementation Path: $2 million to $20 million for construction projects and $100,000 to $5 million for non-construction projects
● Industry Transformation Path: $20 million to $50 million
Match: EDA generally expects to fund up to 80% of project costs. EDA may fund up to 100% for Tribal
applicants and severely distressed applicants.
Eligibility: Projects must be located in, primarily serve, or demonstrably benefit one or more communities in areas that received a major disaster designation occurring in calendar years 2023 and 2024. Check eligibility here: https://www.fema.gov/disaster/declarations
Link: https://www.eda.gov/strategic-initiatives/disaster-recovery/supplemental...
The EDA FY 2025 Disaster Supplemental NOFO is available on grants.gov and eda.gov. EDA funding can support both construction and non-construction projects. EDA’s Disaster NOFO provides funding through three funding pathways:
● Readiness Path – Capacity building and strategic planning projects that set the stage for future investment.
● Implementation Path – Standalone construction and non-construction projects that help communities recover from natural disasters and advance recovery and growth.
● Industry Transformation Path – Coalition-led, multi-project portfolios that transform regional economies through targeted industry development.
Economic Development Administration (EDA): PWEAA
Due: Rolling basis, no deadline.
Amount: $100,000 to $3,000,000
Match: 0%-20%
Eligibility:
City or township governments
Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Private institutions of higher education
State governments
County governments
Special district governments
Link: https://www.eda.gov/funding/funding-opportunities
Purpose: EDA has authority to provide grants to meet the full range of communities’ and regions’ economic development needs from planning and technical assistance to construction of infrastructure. These grants are made through a series of Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFOs) that can be found on EDA’s website at https://www.eda.gov/funding/funding-opportunities and are designed to support the economic development activities most useful to a community based on its needs and circumstances. EDA funds community or regionally generated ideas and assists communities to advance to the next level of economic development. This NOFO, which supersedes the FY20 PWEAA NOFO, sets out EDA’s application submission and review procedures for two of EDA’s core economic development programs authorized under the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, as amended (42 U.S.C. § 3121 et seq.) (PWEDA): (1) Public Works and Economic Development Facilities (Public Works) and (2) Economic Adjustment Assistance (EAA). EDA supports bottom-up strategies that build on regional assets to spur economic growth and resiliency. EDA encourages its grantees throughout the country to develop initiatives that present new ideas and creative approaches to advance economic prosperity in distressed communities. Through this NOFO EDA intends to advance general economic development in accordance with EDA’s investment priorities, but also to pursue projects that, where practicable, incorporate specific priorities related to equity, workforce development, and climate change resiliency so that investments can benefit everyone for decades to come.
***CEDS (Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy) needed for EDA grants
SRF Programs
Deadline: Ongoing
Amount: Varies Depending on Project
Match: Low Cost Loan with PF option
Link: https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/
Purpose: Funding for Drinkingwater, Wastewater, and Stormwater projects.
T-Mobile Hometown Grant
Deadline: Rolling
Amount: $50,000 max
Match: No
Eligibility: Cities, Counties, Non-Profits with a community population of under 50k
https://www.t-mobile.com/brand/hometown-grants#FAQs
The T-Mobile Hometown Grants program funds projects to build, rebuild, or refresh community spaces that help foster local connections in your town. Projects should be shovel-ready, physical builds or improvements that can be completed within 12 months of receiving Hometown Grants funding. Examples of eligible projects include but are not limited to: adaptive uses of older and historic buildings into community gathering spaces, improvements to outdoor parks or trails, and technology projects for the public library. Funds may not be used for: engineering and architectural plans or fees, salaries or annual operating expenses, or reimbursement for projects that are already completed. Hometown Grants are intended for “shovel-ready projects”
. Information required for your application includes:
• Project plan proposal with a detailed budget and timeline
• Up to 5 letters of support from stakeholders in the community
• Examples of in-kind donation possibilities/additional funding to cover the remainder of the project
• Details on permits needed or already obtained
Waste Management Charitable Giving Program
Deadline: Continuous
Amount: Not specified
Eligibility: 501(c)(3) organization or public organizations where any donations requested will be used
exclusively for public purposes.
http://www.wm.com/about/community/charitable-giving.jsp
Healthy thriving communities depend on involved citizens, organizations and corporate partners for momentum. We lend our support and services to causes that promote civic pride, economic development and revitalization. Every community has its own challenges, and we strive always to be part of problem- solving initiatives. WM is most motivated to support programs that support environment, environmental education, and causes important to the areas they operate.