Oklahoma Community Development Grants

This funding opportunity provides up to $40,000 for community groups and local agencies in the Oklahoma City Metro area to enhance public spaces through projects like tree planting and landscaping that promote public engagement and accessibility.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to private nonprofits and governmental agencies in Tulsa to deliver essential public services, housing assistance, and economic development initiatives aimed at benefiting low and moderate-income individuals and families.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to private nonprofits and governmental agencies in Tulsa for projects that benefit low and moderate-income individuals, improve public facilities, or address urgent community development needs.

This grant provides funding to local governments and nonprofit organizations in Tulsa to create and improve affordable housing options for low and moderate-income families.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to non-profit organizations in Tulsa to help individuals and families quickly regain stable housing after experiencing homelessness or a housing crisis.

This program provides funding to Oklahoma-based tribal and municipal governments, as well as not-for-profit historical organizations, to support projects that preserve and promote the state's rich heritage through collections, exhibits, and educational initiatives.

This program provides financial assistance to sheriff's offices in Oklahoma counties based on property valuation, helping them operate effectively without reducing existing funding.

This funding opportunity supports projects that enhance Oklahoma's grape and wine industry through research, education, product development, outreach, and marketing, specifically for higher education institutions, government agencies, and trade groups.

This program provides financial assistance to local governments and nonprofit organizations in Oklahoma to help them preserve and share historical collections and improve their history-related programs.

This program provides financial support to food retailers in underserved communities to improve access to healthy food options for low- and moderate-income populations.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to nonprofit organizations, local governments, and public libraries in select rural Oklahoma counties to enhance arts programming and infrastructure in underserved communities.

This program provides funding to organizations that create arts initiatives for military personnel, veterans, and their families, promoting engagement and support through creative activities.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to nonprofit organizations, local governments, and educational institutions in Oklahoma for arts and cultural programs that engage the community through festivals, exhibitions, and performances.

This funding opportunity provides up to $500 to Oklahoma PreK-12 public schools with arts instructors to purchase supplies for visual and performing arts education during the school day.

This program provides resources for neighborhood groups and K-12 public schools in Edmond to plant trees, improve urban greenery, and engage the community in tree care and education.

The Paint Oklahoma Beautiful is a Keep Oklahoma Beautiful program designed to encourage organizations and volunteers to seek out unsightly buildings in their community and renovate them with the creative use of resources. Donor Name: Keep Oklahoma Beautiful State: Oklahoma County: All Counties Type of Grant: Grant | Awards and Prizes Deadline: (mm/dd/yyyy) 07/31/2024 Size of the Grant: Less than $1000 Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned Details: Prizes Information  1st Place – $1000  2nd Place – $750  3rd Place – $500 Project Requirements Must use only the paint provided in the 5 gallon pails.  If a project requires primer—the group must purchase it with a stipend provided.  Projects could be downtown buildings, schools, community buildings, playground equipment, fences, and even walls.  For safety reasons, projects may not include heavy traffic areas, highways, or streets. Eligibility Criteria Submissions to the Paint Oklahoma Beautiful program are only accepted from groups/organizations who are located in Oklahoma. To be accepted into this program, organizations/groups must successfully submit a project application, “Permission to Paint”, to Keep Oklahoma Beautiful during the application period (June 1 – July 31). To be entered into the “Communities Primed for Change” contest, participants must have used ONLY the paint provided to them in the program and completed the structure included in their application. Use of other paint is acceptable for participation in #POBinOK but makes the participant ineligible for the contest and its associated prizes.  For more information, visit Paint Oklahoma Beautiful.

Oklahoma Office of the Attorney General is currently accepting applications for the 2025 Safe Oklahoma Grant Program. Donor Name: Office of the Oklahoma Attorney General State: Oklahoma County: All Counties Type of Grant: Grant Deadline: (mm/dd/yyyy) 07/12/2024 Size of the Grant: Not Available Grant Duration: 1 Year Details: Established in 2012, The Attorney General’s Safe Oklahoma Grant Program is funded by an annual appropriation from the state legislature. All local law enforcement agencies and sheriff’s offices are eligible for the grant. Grants are made for a one-year period. The Attorney General’s Safe Oklahoma Grant Program provides local law enforcement agencies and sheriff’s offices with additional resources to address violent crime in the state. The money from the grant helps pay overtime costs for officers, technology upgrades, enhanced analytical capabilities and funds community partnership projects that focus on preventing youth violent crime. Purpose Areas  To be eligible for a Safe Oklahoma Grant, local law enforcement agencies shall submit proposals to the Office of the Attorney General that focus on decreasing violent crime within their jurisdiction through one of the following priority strategies found at 74 O.S. § 20k(B)(1)-(5), as listed below:  Focusing on intervention and enforcement through the use of increased staffing resources with overtime funds to target violent crime with evidence-driven approaches. Policing initiatives may include directed patrols, “hot spot” policing, intelligence-led policing, or youth and gang violence interventions [funds cannot be used for new hires or regular salary and benefits];  Increasing technological capacity to support intervention and enforcement with the purchase of technology for crime prevention and criminal justice problem solving. Technology shall include, but not be limited to, crime-mapping software, Global Positioning Systems (GPS) technology and smart phone tools;  Enhancing analytical capacity through the development or expansion of analytical capabilities that focus on crime mapping, analysis of crime trends and developing data-driven strategies that focus on violent crime reduction;  Engaging with community partners in order to develop partnerships and projects that focus on preventing violent crime in the community. Community partners may include, but are not limited to, public and private service providers, the courts, and probation and parole services. Projects shall include, but are not limited to, programs that focus on drug enforcement efforts, youth violent crime, gang violence, and offender recidivism; and  Increasing direct services to crime victims through local law enforcement efforts which shall include, but not be limited to, addressing gaps in crime victims’ services by enhancing accessibility to services, increasing awareness of victimization and partnering with local community providers to improve supports and services to victims of crime. Safe OK Grant Can Help The grant funds can help local law enforcement agencies to directly target crime hot spots in their communities through strategies like increasing the frequency of patrols in high-crime areas; ability to increase the number of boots on the ground; as well as find innovative ways to increase safety in the communities. Each law enforcement agency faces unique challenges depending on location. The Safe OK Grant funds steps to making communities safer by helping the law enforcement partners by providing additional resources. These resources could include upgrading antiquated equipment; purchasing new resources; and helping pay overtime costs for officers. Funding Period The term of the grant period is January 1, 2025 –December 31, 2025. Eligibility Criteria  To be eligible for a Safe Oklahoma Grant, local law enforcement agencies shall submit proposals to the Office of the Attorney General that focus on decreasing the violent crime within their jurisdiction through one of the following priority strategies (a complete list can be found on the grant application):  Focusing on intervention and enforcement through the use of increased staffing resources with overtime funds (cannot be used for new hires or regular salary and benefits);  Increasing technological capacity to support intervention;  Enhancing analytical capacity through development or expansion of capabilities;  Engaging with community partners in order to develop partnerships;  Increasing direct services to crime victims. For more information, visit OOAG.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to nonprofit organizations in Oklahoma focused on education, human services, and community improvement initiatives.

This grant provides financial support to nonprofit organizations in northeastern Oklahoma that focus on family and community services, healthcare, education, and cultural or arts projects, with a preference for initiatives that demonstrate significant impact and sustainability.

This program provides funding to nonprofits and government entities in Cimarron and Texas Counties, Oklahoma, for innovative projects that improve community quality of life and promote economic development.