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GRANT RESOURCES
Missouri Main Street Connection provides a curated list of grant opportunities to local Main Street programs who have an agreement with MMSC and MMSC investors.
The opportunities listed in the Grant Resource Directory email and on this page are not a complete list of possible funding resources for a local Main Street program. This list is meant to compliment an individual organization’s research; it does not replace it. Note: not every opportunity will be applicable to each organization or community. This list may include grants for government entities, other nonprofit organizations, etc. whose work supplements that of a Main Street organization.
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2024 Brownfield Assessment Grants
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
A Community-wide Assessment Grant is appropriate for communities that are beginning to address their brownfield challenges, as well as for communities that have ongoing efforts to bring sites into productive reuse. An applicant may request up to $500,000 to assess sites contaminated by hazardous substances, pollutants, contaminants and/or petroleum. The performance period for these grants is up to four years. Current EPA Brownfields Assessment Grant recipients and Multipurpose Grant recipients must demonstrate that payment has been received from EPA (also known as ‘drawn down’), and drawn down funds have been disbursed, for at least 70.00% of each Assessment and Multipurpose cooperative agreement they have with EPA by October 1, 2024, in order to apply for an FY25 Community-wide Assessment Grant.
Deadline: November 14, 2024
2024 Brownfield Cleanup Grants
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Cleanup Grants provide funding for eligible entities to carry out cleanup activities at brownfield sites. An applicant must own the site for which it is requesting funding. The performance period for these grants is up to four years. An applicant may request up to $500,000, up to $2 million, or up to $4 million to address one brownfield site, or multiple brownfield sites, contaminated by hazardous substances, pollutants, contaminants (including hazardous substances co-mingled with petroleum), and/or petroleum. EPA will make a limited number of awards to applicants requesting above $500,000. Applicants may submit one Cleanup Grant application for each competition cycle. Brownfield sites where Brownfields Cleanup Grant funds were previously expended may not receive additional Cleanup Grant funding.
Deadline: November 14, 2024
2025-2026 AmeriCorps Missouri
AmeriCorps Missouri & Missouri Community Service Commission
This is a funding opportunity for Institutions of higher education; local governments, school districts; nonprofit organizations; State Service Commissions; States and US Territories; Indian Tribes; and public health departments to apply for AmeriCorps members to strengthen communities through service. AmeriCorps grants are awarded to eligible organizations that engage AmeriCorps members in evidence-based or evidence-informed interventions to strengthen communities. An AmeriCorps member is a person who does community service through AmeriCorps. Members may receive a living allowance and other benefits. After successful completion of their service, members earn a Segal AmeriCorps Education Award they can use to pay for higher education expenses or apply to qualified student loans. Funding priorities will prioritize organizations that Serve communities with concentrated poverty, rural communities and historically underrepresented and underserved individuals; Focus on improving the quality of life for veterans, active-duty members of the Armed Forces and their families; Promote environment stewardship to help communities be more resilient by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, conserving land and water, increasing renewable energy use and improving at-risk ecosystems; and Support civic bridgebuilding programs and projects to reduce polarization and community divisions.
Deadline: November, 1 2024
BNSF Railway Foundation
BSNF Railway
The Foundation is dedicated to supporting the communities BSNF Railway serves and in which their employees live, work, and volunteer. Organizations should exist in or serve a community near one of BNSF's rail lines to be eligible to apply for grants. Grants are offered for projects that fall into the categories of civic service, cultural, educational, health and human service, youth organizations, and federally recognized tribal governments.
Deadline: Openly Accepting Applications
Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund
Environmental Improvement and Energy Resources Authority (EIERA) in cooperation with Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources
In 2005, the EIERA was awarded a $1 million grant to capitalize a revolving loan fund from which the EIERA will provide loans and sub-grants to support cleanup activities for sites contaminated with petroleum, hazardous, controlled substances, and mine-scarred lands.
Deadline: ongoing once outstanding loans are repaid
Business and Industry Loan Guarantee
USDA
This program offers loan guarantees to lenders for their loans to rural businesses. Lenders need the legal authority, financial strength, and sufficient experience to operate a successful lending program. This includes lenders that are subject to supervision and credit examination by the applicable agency of the United States or a State including: Federal and State-chartered banks; Savings and Loans; Farm Credit Banks with direct lending authority and Credit Unions. Eligible applicants include for-profit or non-profit businesses; Cooperatives; Public bodies and Individuals engaged or proposing to engage in a business. Eligible applicants must reside in an eligible rural area, not in a city or town with a population of more than 50,000 inhabitants; the borrower’s headquarters may be based within a larger city, as long as the project is located in an eligible rural area; The lender may be located anywhere in the United States; and Projects may be funded in either rural or urban areas under the Local and Regional Food System Initiative. Check eligible addresses for Business Programs.
Community Empowerment Grant Program
Missouri Main Street Connection
The Community Empowerment Grant (CEG) program is a two-year 60/40 matching service grant. To be eligible for this program, a community representative must attend a CEG workshop. Check our trainings & programs page for more information about the grant and upcoming grant workshops.
The CEG program includes hands-on training and guidance to help the community establish a local Main Street program.
Deadline: periodic
Community Forestry Cost-Share
Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC)
This Cost-Share Program is designed to assist Missouri communities with improving their community forest. This cost-share program encourages communities to have a sustainable, balanced, and comprehensive community forestry program based on a current tree inventory and managed with the guidance of a community forestry professional. Lastly, Community Forestry Cost-Share is designed to promote community forest benefits through the proper management and care of trees. Cost-share opportunities available under the Community Forestry Cost-Share include municipal tree ordinance development, development of a written community tree management plan, or community readiness plan for addressing exotic insect disease outbreaks, community tree inventories, management of ash (Fraxinus sp.) trees, training of city employees and volunteers to improve community forestry, purchase of tree-care education materials, development and/or distribution of tree-care-related educational materials, removal of critical-risk trees, pruning, tree planting, and other opportunities to further community forestry. Deadline: Applications available beginning in July annually and funded on a first-come, first served basis.
Community Possible Grant Program
U.S. Bank Foundation
Through their Community Possible Grant Program, U.S. Bank is partnering with organizations that focus on economic and workforce advancement, safe and affordable housing, and communities connected through arts and culture. In 2021, they switched to an invitation-only grant application; moving away from three payout cycles and instead making quarterly payouts to provide funding when it is needed most. Nonprofit organizations new to U.S. Bank Foundation may submit a Letter of Interest so that the Community Affairs Managers may learn of funding needs in their areas. After reviewing the Letter of Interest, a Community Affairs Manager may reach out with a request for a full application. Grants may be awarded for operating expenses, program or project expenses, as well as a small number of capital grants. Letters of Interest accepted on an ongoing basis, grants awarded quarterly.
Deadline: Quarterly
CREATE ACTION
Alpha Universe and Sony Electronics
The mission of CREATE ACTION is to amplify the efforts of local organizations through funding, storytelling, and collaboration with Sony. CREATE ACTION is seeking grant applicants committed to serving their local communities in areas such as STEAM/academic enrichment, workforce development, and non-profit services for underserved and under-represented groups. Our mutual goal will be to create lasting positive change within the communities you serve. CREATE ACTION grants are designed to make a long-lasting impact for local organizations and the communities they serve. Selected organizations will receive direct funding, Sony Electronics products and a custom-created promotional film, as well as many other opportunities for collaboration, partnership and marketing support.
Deadline: Passed for 2024
Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants Program
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grant program (Community Change Grants) offers an unprecedented opportunity to transform disadvantaged communities across the United States into healthy, climate resilient, and thriving communities for their current and future residents. The Community Change Grants will fund community-driven projects that address climate challenges and reduce pollution while strengthening communities through thoughtful implementation. The historic levels of support provided by these grants will enable communities and their partners to overcome longstanding environmental challenges and implement meaningful solutions to meet community needs now and for generations to come. This program will address Expanding access to high-quality jobs and economic opportunity through workforce development; Reducing and preventing pollution; Building resilience to climate change and mitigating current and future climate risks; Enhancing meaningful involvement in government processes related to environmental and climate justice; and Bolstering community strength by ensuring that local residents receive the benefits of investments and have the opportunity to build on them for current and future generations. Applicants will be considered under two separate tracks 1) Community Driven Investments for Change with awards expected to be between $10 and $20 million and 2) Meaningful Engagement for Equitable Governance with awards expected to be between $1 to $3 million.
Deadline: November 21, 2024
Google Ad Grants
Google
The Google Ad Grants program supports nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and more than 50 additional countries that help to make the world a better place. Google Ad Grants is a unique in-kind advertising program that harnesses the power of the company's flagship advertising product, Google AdWords. Through the program, selected organizations receive $10,000 per month through in-kind AdWords advertising to promote their missions and initiatives on Google.com. The program has awarded AdWords advertising to a wide range of nonprofit organizations.
Deadline: revolving
Historic Preservation Fund Grants
Missouri State Historic Preservation Office
The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 authorizes a program of federal matching grants, known as the Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) to assist various states in carrying out historic preservation activities. The program is sponsored by the Department of the Interior, National Park Service (NPS), and in Missouri, is administered through the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Under changes made to the Act in 1980, each state is required to earmark a minimum of ten percent (10%) of their Historic Preservation Fund monies for exclusive use by Certified Local Governments (CLGs). In this grant cycle, the Department expects to award approximately $200,000 in grants. Certified Local Governments are eligible to apply for this round of Historic Preservation Fund Grants. HPF grants fund projects that relate directly to the identification, evaluation or protection of historic properties. These are 60/40 matching grants.
Deadline: December 6, 2024
Hometown Grants
T-Mobile partnering with Main Street America and Smart Growth America
T-Mobile is investing big in small towns by awarding up to 100 towns a year with project funding—up to $50,000 each. The program will focus on revitalizing community spaces in towns with 50,000 people or less, and Main Street programs are encouraged to apply. Submit a proposal for a town project of your choice, and if selected, use the funds to get started. For example, you could implement tech upgrades at your library, refresh a local park, or break ground on a new place where neighbors can connect.
Deadline: Quarterly.
Inspire! Grants for Small Museums
Institute for Museum and Library Services
Inspire! Grants for Small Museums is a special initiative of the Museums for America program. It is designed to support small museums in addressing priorities identified in their strategic plans. Inspire! has three project categories: Lifelong Learning, Institutional Capacity, and Collections Stewardship and Access. Grants range from $5,000 to $25,000 with no cost share requirement for small projects or $25,001 to $75,000 for large projects that require a 1:1 match and both grant projects have grant periods of up to three years.
Deadline: November 15, 2024
