The Kresge Foundation Grants

Deadline: As soon as possible

Projects

Grant

Location(s)

  • Canada
  • South Africa
  • United States of America

Overview

The Kresge Foundation is a $3.6 billion private, national foundation that works to expand opportunities in America's cities through grantmaking and social investing in arts and culture, education, environment, health, human services, and community development in Detroit. In collaboration with our nonprofit, public, private and philanthropic partners, we help create pathways for vulnerable people to improve their life circumstances and join the economic mainstream.

Details

Central to our work as a strategic philanthropy is the ability to draw on an array of versatile, flexible grantmaking and social investing tools. We award operating support, project grants and planning grants. We also utilize a full complement of program related investments, including loans, deposits, equity and guarantees. In collaboration with our grantees and partners, we seek to use these grantmaking and investing tools to create pathways for vulnerable people to improve their life circumstances and join the economic mainstream.

Some programs accept applications on an ongoing basis. Others proactively invite or solicit applications from individual organization. And, on occasion, a program may make a national call for applications for specific efforts through a request-for-proposal process. When available, grant opportunities are listed on the Current Grant Opportunities page.

Kresge awards single and multiyear grants that typically range in duration from one to three years. To learn more about the grants made in each program area since 2009, visit the Grants Awarded page, where you can search by year, program, organization name and location.

Our Social Investment Practice works across the six programs to complement grantmaking efforts with loans, deposits, equity and guarantees to find funding gaps as needed, draw other partners to the project, or make capital available in otherwise disinvested communities.

Created in 2015, the American Cities Practice also works with our six programs to identify and fund cross-team, interdisciplinary and/or multidisciplinary efforts to improve conditions within cities. The practice also funds high-visibility, national thought-leadership efforts that advance Kresge’s social-change agenda.

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Eligibility

Candidates should be from:


Description of Ideal Candidate

Our six programs use grant dollars to fund operating support, project grants and planning grants to advance their strategic objectives as described in the Programs section of the website. Kresge awards between $120 million and $150 million in grants each year to worthy nonprofit organizations located in the United States. Under certain circumstances, awards are made to environmental organizations in Canada and to institutions of higher education in South Africa.

Grants are awarded to organizations that advance the strategic objectives of a given program. In certain situations, when project proposals offer opportunities to advance the goals of multiple programs, those programs will jointly fund the proposal.


Dates

Deadline: As soon as possible


Cost/funding for participants

Between $120 million and $150 million in grants each year.

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