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Community & Economic Development · Amount varies

The Ben Franklin Partners Challenge Grant provides funding through Pennsylvania's four Ben Franklin Technology Partners to support access to capital, business expertise, and technology commercialization, including alternative and clean energy work. Eligible applicants include entrepreneurs, start-ups and early-stage companies, investors, higher-education institutions, researchers, and Ben Franklin alumni companies. No specific award amounts are listed.

Community & Economic Development · Amount varies

This Pennsylvania program provides immediate assistance for temporary housing and stabilization services after natural or man-made disasters. Eligible applicants are all units of local government (counties, townships, towns, boroughs, cities, and authorities) and nonprofit organizations responding to disaster-related housing needs. Businesses and individuals are not eligible; award amounts are not specified.

Community & Economic Development · Amount varies

Pennsylvania's Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) provides tax credits to eligible businesses that contribute to approved Scholarship Organizations, Educational Improvement Organizations, or Pre-Kindergarten Scholarship Organizations. Eligibility is limited to contributing businesses, and application timing depends on whether a business is renewing a two-year commitment or applying initially. This is a tax credit rather than a cash grant, and no specific amounts are listed.

Community & Economic Development · Amount varies

The Coal Refuse Energy and Reclamation Tax Credit provides tax credits to qualified taxpayers operating facilities that generate electricity from coal refuse, control acid gas emissions, and use the resulting ash to reclaim mining-affected sites in Pennsylvania. It is narrowly targeted at coal-refuse-to-energy facility operators, so general businesses, nonprofits, and individuals are not a fit. This is a tax credit rather than a cash grant.

Community & Economic Development · Up to $500K

Pennsylvania's Private Dam Financial Assurance Program helps owners of regulated private dams meet proof of financial responsibility required under state dam safety law, and can provide low-interest loans once the fund reaches $1.5 million. Eligible applicants are individuals and other legal entities such as persons, partnerships, associations, community associations, and corporations that own regulated private dams. The listing notes a figure up to $500,000. The program is run jointly by the state DCED and Department of Environmental Protection.

Community & Economic Development · Amount varies

This Pennsylvania program is open to municipalities, municipal/redevelopment/industrial-development authorities, counties, and other local government entities, not to private individuals or typical small businesses. It does not provide cash grants; instead it offers credit-enhancement guarantees on bonds or other debt issued for Tax Increment Financing (TIF) projects that redevelop brownfield or greenfield sites, lowering borrowing costs. Projects must comply with Pennsylvania's TIF Act and be located in the Commonwealth.

Community & Economic Development · Amount varies

This Pennsylvania program offers grants and loans (gap financing) to develop competitive sites where businesses can relocate or expand within the Commonwealth. Eligible applicants are municipalities, economic development organizations, redevelopment and municipal authorities, industrial development agencies, and for-profit organizations; it is not aimed at individuals or nonprofits. Projects must be located in Pennsylvania.

Community & Economic Development · Amount varies

This Pennsylvania grant funds workforce training to help companies identify and develop skilled workers, particularly in manufacturing. Eligible applicants are technical and trade schools, school districts, post-secondary institutions, workforce investment boards, economic development organizations, and nonprofit organizations; individuals and most for-profit businesses do not apply directly. Award amounts are not stated.

Community & Economic Development · Amount varies

Keystone Opportunity Zones provide state and local tax abatements (not grants) to businesses and residents that locate in specifically designated geographic zones in Pennsylvania. The benefit only applies within those defined zones, so location is the key qualifier. Both businesses and residents in eligible zones may benefit.

Community & Economic Development · Up to $400K

This Pennsylvania program is restricted to Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) and community-based Revolving Loan Funds, not to businesses or individuals directly. It supplies capital with extended repayment terms so those intermediaries can make low-interest loans to businesses owned and operated by ethnic minorities. Awards go up to roughly $400,000.

Community & Economic Development · Amount varies

This program channels Appalachian Regional Commission construction funding to projects in Pennsylvania's Appalachian region. Eligible applicants are economic development organizations, nonprofit entities, and local governments located in Appalachian Pennsylvania; projects outside that region do not qualify. It supports infrastructure, workforce, health, and community-development projects; award amounts are not stated.

Community & Economic Development · Amount varies

The Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority (PIDA) provides low-interest loans and lines of credit to eligible businesses that commit to creating and retaining full-time jobs, and for developing industrial parks and multi-tenant facilities. Applications are packaged and underwritten through certified economic development organizations, so applicants work with a CEDO rather than applying directly. This is debt financing tied to job commitments, not a cash grant.

Community & Economic Development · Amount varies

Pennsylvania First is a broad economic-development grant supporting investment and job creation in the Commonwealth. A wide range of applicants qualify, including businesses (corporations, partnerships, sole proprietorships, LLCs, other for-profits), nonprofits, municipalities, and various authorities and development districts. The program is statewide and aimed at projects that create jobs and attract or retain employers; award amounts are not specified.

Community & Economic Development · Amount varies

The Pipeline Investment Program provides grants to extend the final miles of natural gas distribution lines to business parks and existing manufacturing or industrial sites in Pennsylvania, aiming to create jobs and expand gas access. Eligible applicants include economic development organizations, businesses, municipalities, hospitals, and school districts. Award amounts are not stated; projects must serve qualifying end users in the Commonwealth.

Community & Economic Development · Amount varies

The Keystone Special Development Zone program provides tax credits to for-profit businesses that locate and operate within designated geographic zones, encouraging redevelopment of former industrial and commercial sites in Pennsylvania. The benefit applies only inside the designated zones, so location is the key qualifier. Nonprofits and individuals are not the intended applicants.

Community & Economic Development · Amount varies

This component of Pennsylvania's PA SITES program provides construction grants and loans as gap financing to ready competitive sites for businesses to relocate or expand within the Commonwealth. Eligible applicants are municipalities, economic development organizations, redevelopment and municipal authorities, industrial development agencies, and for-profit organizations; it does not target individuals or nonprofits. Projects must be located in Pennsylvania.

Community & Economic Development · Amount varies

This component of Pennsylvania's PA SITES program provides planning grants to fund a plan or feasibility study for a prospective development site within the Commonwealth. Eligible applicants are municipalities, economic development organizations, redevelopment and municipal authorities, industrial development agencies, and for-profit organizations; individuals and nonprofits are not the target. Award amounts are not specified.

Community & Economic Development · From $25K

The Emergency Solutions Grant is federal funding passed through Pennsylvania to support rapid rehousing, street outreach, homelessness prevention, emergency shelter, and related homeless-assistance activities. Eligible applicants are general units of local government and nonprofit organizations; businesses and individuals do not apply. Awards start at roughly $25,000, with the maximum not specified.

Community & Economic Development · Amount varies

The Pennsylvania Economic Development Financing Authority (PEDFA) Tax-Exempt Bond Program provides access to low-interest financing through tax-exempt and taxable debt. Eligible uses and applicants include manufacturing, 501(c)(3) nonprofits, solid waste disposal, wastewater treatment, transportation facilities, and assisted living/housing projects. This is bond financing rather than a grant; no specific dollar amounts are listed.

Community & Economic Development · $500K–$5M

Pennsylvania's Public School Facility Improvement Grant Program funds eligible facility improvement projects for public schools. Eligibility is limited to public school districts and area career and technical schools in the Commonwealth. Awards range from $500,000 to $5,000,000, making this a large-award program.