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Community & Economic Development · Amount varies

Pennsylvania First is a state economic-development financing tool to support investment and job creation in the Commonwealth, offered here as a loan. A wide range of entities may apply, including for-profit businesses, corporations, partnerships, sole proprietorships, LLCs, nonprofits, and municipalities and other local-government bodies. Projects must benefit Pennsylvania. No specific award amounts are listed.

Community & Economic Development · Amount varies

Pennsylvania's Act 47 program provides loan and grant funds plus technical assistance to financially distressed local governments to help them develop financial recovery plans. Eligibility is limited to municipalities that are financially distressed local governments, so it is not open to nonprofits, businesses, or individuals. No specific award amounts are listed.

Community & Economic Development · From $500K

Pennsylvania's Solar for Schools program funds the purchase and installation of solar energy systems, including equipment, permits, energy storage, and utility interconnection. Eligibility is limited to schools, specifically school districts, intermediate units, charter schools (including cyber and regional), schools for the deaf or blind, career and technical schools, and community colleges in Pennsylvania. The stated minimum award is $500,000, making this a large-award program; no maximum is listed.

Community & Economic Development · Amount varies

This Pennsylvania measure is a tax deduction for employers, not a cash grant or loan. It rewards manufacturers that make qualified investments and create jobs in Pennsylvania by allowing a deduction against state tax liability. Only manufacturing businesses operating in the Commonwealth would qualify, so most nonprofits and individuals are not a fit.

Community & Economic Development · Amount varies

This Pennsylvania program provides low-interest loans to local governments for equipment and facility needs. Eligibility is limited to local government bodies, so businesses, nonprofits, and individuals would not qualify. Specific eligibility details and award amounts are not stated; applicants should confirm terms with the administering agency.

Community & Economic Development · Amount varies

The Pennsylvania Beginning Farmer Tax Credit provides tax credits to owners of agricultural assets who sell or rent those assets to beginning farmers. Eligible applicants are individuals and other legal entities such as trusts and pass-through entities that own agricultural assets. This is a tax-credit benefit rather than a cash grant, administered with the state Departments of Agriculture and Revenue. No specific credit amounts are listed.

Community & Economic Development · Amount varies

This Pennsylvania program awards tax credits (not cash) to taxpayers who restore a qualified historic structure into an income-producing property. Every project must include a rehabilitation plan approved by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission as consistent with the U.S. Secretary of the Interior's standards. It suits property owners and developers undertaking historic rehab; it does not fit applicants without a qualifying historic, income-producing building.

Community & Economic Development · Amount varies

Pennsylvania's Manufacturing Tax Credit Program provides tax credits to taxpayers who increase their annual taxable payroll by $1,000,000 through the creation of new full-time jobs. Eligibility is limited to qualified taxpayers meeting that payroll-growth threshold, so it targets businesses able to add substantial new jobs. This is a tax credit rather than a cash grant, and no specific credit amounts are listed.

Community & Economic Development · Up to $200K

This Pennsylvania program provides matching grant funds to municipalities (counties, cities, boroughs, towns, townships, and home-rule municipalities) experiencing fiscal difficulty, to develop multi-year financial plans and set financial objectives. Because it is a matching grant, applicants must contribute a share of project costs. Awards go up to roughly $200,000; private organizations and individuals are not eligible.

Community & Economic Development · Amount varies

This Pennsylvania program offers grants and low-interest loans to fund environmental site assessment and cleanup at former industrial sites. Eligible applicants include public entities, private nonprofit economic development entities, and companies reusing former industrial land, but applicants must not have caused or contributed to the contamination. Individuals and parties responsible for the pollution are not eligible.

Community & Economic Development · Amount varies

This Appalachian Regional Commission program funds area-development projects within Pennsylvania's Appalachian region. Eligible applicants are economic development organizations, nonprofit entities, and local governments in Appalachian Pennsylvania; the geographic limit excludes organizations elsewhere in the state. It supports a range of community and economic development activities; award amounts are not specified.