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Affordable housing, homelessness, community facilities and local economic-development programs, mainly from HCD and GO-Biz. 14 open now, 8 open to nonprofits.
These grants fund affordable housing, homelessness response, community facilities, neighborhood revitalization and local economic development. The Department of Housing and Community Development is the main funder, along with GO-Biz and the California Housing Finance Agency. Award sizes run from small capacity grants to tens of millions for housing development.
Categories are assigned by the grantor on the California Grants Portal; a grant can appear in several. All categories with descriptions →
The Digital Divide Grant Program will award one grant of $100,000 for rural and urban public schools and two grants of up to $50,000 each for non-profit Community Based Organizations (CBO). The grants will fund digital p…
The purpose of the Cannabis Equity Grants Program for Local Jurisdictions is to advance economic justice for populations and communities impacted by cannabis prohibition and the War on Drugs by providing support to local…
The principal goal of this program is to make funding available to eligible Local Governments in California for housing-related projects and programs that assist in addressing the unmet housing needs of their local commu…
The principal goal of this program is to make funding available to eligible Local Governments in California for housing-related projects and programs that assist in addressing the unmet housing needs of their local commu…
The principal goal of this program is to make funding available to eligible Local Governments in California for housing-related projects and programs that assist in addressing the unmet housing needs of their local commu…
The Program provides funding for eligible entities to complete projects under $100,000 that make transformative investments in the Delta’s social, economic, scientific, and physical infrastructure. Projects may support c…
The state HOME program provides funding for housing rehabilitation, new construction, and acquisition and rehabilitation for multifamily projects; new construction and down payment assistance for single-family projects; …
The 2025 Multifamily Finance Super NOFA - Los Angeles Disaster makes funds more accessible to developers enables the funding to further serve the lowest income Californians and increases the range of potential applicants…
The principal goal of this program is to provide grants to Local Housing Trust Funds established by cities and counties, Native American Tribes, and incorporated 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations to increase the supply o…
The Department announces the availability of $75 million of Homekey Program grant funding through this Round 3 Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for Tribal Entities. This NOFA aims to sustain and rapidly expand housi…
This non-competitive grant program focuses on increasing public access to the Delta through recreation and tourism opportunities, historic and cultural preservation, and environmental education in order to promote a robu…
IBank's ISRF Loan Fund program provides low-cost, direct loans to local governments and nonprofits sponsored by public agencies for a wide variety of public infrastructure and economic expansion projects (excluding housi…
Each year, the Coastal Conservancy issues millions of dollars in grants for projects that restore and protect the California coast, expand public access to it, and enhance its resilience to climate change. We fund a wide…
CAEATFA supports California's mission to provide financial incentives to cutting-edge companies by offering a sales and use tax exclusion to manufacturers purchasing equipment to promote alternative energy, advanced tran…
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As of Oct 30, 2026 there are 14 open grants in this category on the California Grants Portal, 8 of them open to nonprofits. 5 have a fixed deadline and 9 are ongoing or in cycles announced by the grantor. The nearest deadline is Oct 30, 2026 (2026-27 Digital Divide Grant Program Round 4, Public Utilities Commission).
Who funds it: Department of Housing and Community Development (7), Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy (2), Public Utilities Commission (1), Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (1), Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (1).
Funding available: programs that state a total range from $200K to $335M; 3 list no total. 1 of the 14 require matching funds.
Housing developers, community development corporations and homeless-services providers are typical nonprofit applicants. HCD programs are complex: expect notices of funding availability with long guidelines, mandatory webinars, and strict thresholds. Watch HCD's NOFA calendar as well as this list.
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14 as of Oct 30, 2026, 8 of them open to nonprofits. The list is rebuilt daily from the California Grants Portal.
The agencies with the most open programs right now are Department of Housing and Community Development, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy, Public Utilities Commission.
1 of the 14 open programs require a match. Use the 'No match required' filter to exclude them.
Yes. Applications are made on the grantor's own site at no cost. Anyone asking for a fee is not the grantor.
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