Grant Details

The Kresge Foundation is a private, national foundation that works to expand opportunities in America's cities through grantmaking and investing in arts and culture, education, environment, health, human services and community development efforts in targeted US cities such as Detroit.

The foundation makes single and multi-year grants. The types of funding supported by the foundation include:

• Operating Support Grants;
• Project Support Grants; and
• Program-related Investments

The Foundation funds the following programs and initiatives:

• American Cities: expand opportunity by promoting effective and inclusive community development practices in American cities
• Arts & Culture: position culture and creativity as drivers of more just communities
• Detroit: promote and expand long-term, equitable opportunity in Kresge's hometown by centering the priorities of its residents.
• Education: increase college access and success while reducing inequitable student outcomes in the U.S. and South Africa.
• Environment: help cities implement climate change mitigation and adaptation approaches grounded in equity.
• Health: build equity-focused systems of health that create opportunities for all people to achieve well-being.
• Human Services: Expanding opportunities in American cities by centering racial equity to advance social and economic mobility for families and communities.
• Social Investment Practice: work across Kresge's seven program teams to strengthen neighborhoods and improve the quality of life in America's cities by addressing barriers to capital.