Active Grants for Alaska

Below is a listing of all current (active) Grant Opportunities.   Use the filter buttons to narrow the options based on grant categories, by toggling them on or off.  

Water & Waste Disposal Loan & Grant Program in Alaska

  • Title: Water & Waste Disposal Loan & Grant Program in Alaska
  • Description: This program provides funding for clean and reliable drinking water systems, sanitary sewage disposal, sanitary solid waste disposal, and storm water drainage to households and businesses in eligible rural areas.
  • Eligible Entities: This program assists qualified applicants who are not otherwise able to obtain commercial credit on reasonable terms Including most state and local governmental entities, private nonprofits, federally-recognized tribes.

Public Works and Economic Adjustment Assistance Programs

  • Title and Number:  PWEAA2023 -FY 2023 EDA Public Works and Economic Adjustment Assistance Programs
  • Agency: Department of Commerce - Economic Development Administration (EDA)
  • Deadline:  Rolling
  • Grant Amount: The average size of an EAA investment has been approximately $650,000, and as in FY2023, EDA expects to make investments ranging from $150,000 to $2.5 million, and in FY2024 EDA anticipates making similar sized awards, subject to the availability of funding.
  • Match Required:  20 to 50% based on the relative needs of the region. See Table on Page 12 of Notice of Funding Opportunity at:  https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/346815

Digital Equity Competitive Grant Program

  • Title and Number:  NTIA-DECGP-2024 – Digital Equity Competitive Grant Program
  • Agency: U.S. Department of Commerce - National Telecommunications and Information Administration
  • Deadline:  September 23, 2024
  • Grant Amount: NTIA expects to make individual Competitive Grant Program awards to Eligible Entities within a range of $5,000,000 and $12,000,000. This funding range is not a required minimum or maximum.
  • Number of Anticipated Awards: depends on the number of applicants and the size of the proposals submitted.
  • Match Required:  10%

Community Facilities Program Disaster Grants in Alaska

  • Title: Community Facilities Program Disaster Grants in Alaska
  • Eligible entities: Public bodies, Community-based nonprofit organizations, Federally recognized Tribes
  • Description: This program provides grants to repair essential community facilities in rural areas that were damaged by Presidentially Declared Disasters in Calendar Year 2022 or to repair or replace essential community facilities damaged by Presidentially Declared Disasters in CY 2023 and Other Disasters in CY 2023. An essential community facility is defined as a facility that provides an essential service to the local community for the orderly development of the community in a primarily rural area, and does not include private, commercial or business undertakings.

Emergency Community Water Assistance Grants in Alaska 

  • Title: Emergency Community Water Assistance Grants in Alaska
  • This program helps eligible communities prepare, or recover from, an emergency that threatens the availability of safe, reliable drinking water.
  • Eligible Applicants:
    • Rurally located public bodies
    • Nonprofit organizations
    • Federally recognized tribes
  • Applicants must show that a major decline in quantity or quality of water occurred within two years of the date of the application. Grants are also awarded when a significant decline in quality and quantity of water is imminent.
  • Events that qualify as an emergency:
    • Drought or flood
    • Earthquake
    • Tornado or hurricane
    • Disease outbreak
    • Chemical spill, leak or seepage
    • Other disasters
  • NOTE: A federal disaster declaration is not required.

Clean Bus Planning Awards

  • Title: Clean Bus Planning Awards
  • Eligible applicants: State and local governmental entities providing bus service, including public school districts and charter schools. Private school bus fleets with an active contractual agreement to serve a public school district. Nonprofit school transportation associations. Tribes, Tribal organizations, or Tribally controlled schools responsible for the purchase of school buses or providing school bus service for a Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)-funded school. Direct or designated recipients of FTA grants, including state and local governmental authorities, and Tribes.

Water Grants

  • Title: Water Grants
  • Deadline: Rolling
  • Grant amount: Unspecified amount
  • Fields of work: Rural Development, Disaster Relief / Humanitarian Aid, Sanitation & Clean Drinking Water
  • Applicant type: Government Entity, Indigenous Group, Nonprofit
  • Funding uses: Project / Program
  • Location of project: United States
  • Location of residency: United States

Continuum of Care (CoC) Builds

  • Funding Opportunity Title: Continuum of Care (CoC) Builds
  • Estimated Total Program Funding: $ 175,000,000
  • Award Size: $1,000,000 - $10,000,000
  • Expected Number of Awards: 25
  • Applications Deadline: Nov 21, 2024
  • Eligible Applicants: County governments, State governments, Nonprofits, Tribes, local governments

Broadband Technical Assistance (BTA)

  • Title: Broadband Technical Assistance (BTA)
  • Eligible applicants: Federally-recognized Tribes and Tribal entities, State or local governments, Institutions of higher education, Nonprofit organizations, Corporations, Limited Liability Companies or Limited Liability Partnerships
  • Where: It must promote broadband expansion into a rural community.
  • How to apply: Applications must be submitted electronically through https://www.grants.gov/.
  • Match: BTA does not have a cost share or matching requirement.

Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants Program

  • Agency:  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights
  • Deadline:  November 21, 2024
  • Grant Amount:  Track 1: $10M to $20M
  • Available Funding:  Approximately $1.96 billion  
  • Number of Anticipated Awards:  Track 1:  up to 150 awards; Track 2: up to 20 awards
  • Match Required:  No

WaterSMART: Water and Energy Efficiency Grants for FY24 and FY25

  • Agency:  U.S. Department of the Interior
  • Deadline:  Application Period 1: February 22, 2024; Application Period 2: October 30, 2024
  • Grant Amount:  $500,000 to $5M depending on funding group (refer to page 6 of Notice.
  • Number of Anticipated Awards: 40 to 50 projects per application period
  • Match Required: 50% of project cost.

Water & Waste Disposal Loan & Grant Program in Alaska

  • Deadline: Rolling
  • Grant amount: Unspecified amount
  • Fields of work: Waste Management Sanitation & Clean Drinking Water Water Resource Management
  • Applicant type: Government Entity, Indigenous Group, Nonprofit
  • Funding uses: Project / Program, Capital Project
  • Location of project: Alaska
  • Location of residency: Matches: Alaska

Emergency Community Water Assistance Grants in Alaska

  • Deadline: Rolling
  • Grant amount: Up to US $1,000,000
  • Fields of work: Sanitation & Clean Drinking Water
  • Applicant type: Government Entity, Indigenous Group, Nonprofit
  • Funding uses: Project / Program, Capital Project
  • Location of project: Alaska
  • Location of residency: Matches: Alaska

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