Wisconsin State Grants Portal

Reimburses sheriff departments for ATV enforcement patrols.

Cost-shares aquatic invasive species prevention, early detection and response, population control and research.

Funds a nonprofit organization that promotes safe and responsible ATV/UTV use, riding and education.

Funds acquisition, insurance, development and maintenance of ATV/UTV trails, areas and routes.

Offsets responsible units' reasonable and necessary costs of residential recycling and yard waste programs.

Provides law enforcement aids to counties and municipalities for boating enforcement patrols.

Funds construction, renovation and maintenance of boating infrastructure for transient recreational vessels at least 26 feet long.

Funds watercraft inspectors who check boats and educate boaters at landings to prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species.

Funds boat sewage pump-out and dump stations to help clean up waterways.

Provides matching funds to enhance county and tribal fish and wildlife programs.

Helps counties pay the salary and fringe costs of a professional county forest administrator.

Funds county purchase of lands to add to the county forest system and expand nature-based recreation.

Funds special, short-term or unanticipated county forest projects that promote sustainable forestry.

Reimburses the cost of removing a dam and restoring its impoundment.

Helps small or disadvantaged OTM and nonprofit NN public water systems address PFAS and manganese contamination.

Cost-shares equipment, training and prevention to strengthen local fire departments' initial attack on forest fires.

Funds friends groups and nonprofit conservation organizations to improve facilities, build recreation projects and restore habitat on state properties.

Cost-shares five simple shoreland best practices that improve habitat and water quality.

Provides cost-share grants for programs that educate, train and develop safe and ethical hunters and mentors, with a focus on adults, women and families.

Annual allocations to counties, tribes and designated agents for AIS prevention and lake monitoring services.

Funds local acquisition and development of public outdoor recreation areas and facilities.

Cost-shares engineering and construction to maintain, repair, modify, or abandon and remove municipally owned dams.

Helps municipalities proactively reduce flood hazards and improve flood resilience.

Cost-shares best management practices that livestock operations need to meet DNR pollution control requirements after a Notice of Discharge or Notice of Intent.

Funds development, rehabilitation and maintenance of off-highway motorcycle trails using OHM registration revenue.

Funds municipal PFAS sampling of private wells, certain schools and child care facilities, and wastewater, plus post-sampling actions to reduce exposure.

Funds habitat, education and research projects that benefit wild ring-necked pheasants.

Funds cleanup of brownfield properties that are ready to begin remediation.

Cost-shares recreational boating facility projects such as ramps, harbors of refuge, navigation aids and channel dredging.

Reimburses development, rehabilitation and maintenance of motorized and non-motorized recreational trails and trail facilities.

Supplemental recycling aid for responsible units that meet the consolidation criteria in s. 287.24.

Cost-shares construction of outdoor (and some indoor) public shooting range facilities.

Reimburses sheriff departments for snowmobile law enforcement patrols.

Funds maintenance, development, bridge and trail rehabilitation of Wisconsin's public snowmobile trail system.

Funds construction and renovation of public boat access sites.

Funds construction and renovation of fishing piers that provide public shore-fishing access.

Funds friends groups for maintenance and operations of state parks, southern state forests, state trails and state recreation areas.

Matching funds for tribes to run summer programs where tribal youth ages 13-19 work on natural resource conservation projects.

Cost-shares surface water education, lake/river/AIS planning, comprehensive management planning and county lake programs.

Cost-shares implementation projects that protect or restore lakes, rivers and connected wetlands.

Competitive grants that reimburse agricultural or urban nonpoint source pollution control practices in targeted critical areas.

Helps small, underserved OTM and nonprofit NN public water systems with active Safe Drinking Water Act violations or action level exceedances return to compliance.

Funds urban tree repair, removal or replacement after a catastrophic storm with a governor's emergency declaration.

Small cost-share grants for communities starting or restarting an urban forestry program.

Competitive grants for constructing urban storm water best management practices.

Competitive grants for urban storm water management planning, ordinances, financing studies and related education.

Cost-shares urban wildlife plans and abatement or control of white-tailed deer and Canada geese.

Funds wetland habitat work that produces waterfowl in Wisconsin and, through nonprofits, in Canadian breeding areas.

Cost-shares invasive plant control and outreach on nonindustrial private forest land.

Helps families properly fill and seal unused private wells.

Helps eligible households replace, reconstruct or treat contaminated private water supplies.

Funds habitat, education and research projects that advance Wisconsin's wild turkey management plan.

Funds counties to help farmers prevent, and be partly compensated for, crop damage from deer, elk, bear, geese and turkeys.

Provides DNR-contracted or community-managed environmental assessments of brownfields that impede redevelopment.

Reimburses woodland owners for part of the cost of practices that protect and enhance their woodlands.

Funds wetland restoration projects using revenue from the sale of in-lieu fee wetland mitigation credits.

Improve local roads, bridges and culverts that give agricultural and forestry producers access, so weight restrictions can be removed.

Combine federal, state and local funds to improve public-use airports.

Provide capital funding to replace, rehabilitate and buy buses and equipment and build bus facilities.

Fund transportation projects that cut emissions in air quality nonattainment and maintenance areas.

Help counties provide transportation for seniors and individuals with disabilities.

Help local governments repair highways significantly damaged by a disaster event.

Help local governments repair or replace federal-aid roadways damaged by a catastrophic failure or natural disaster.

Improve mobility for seniors and individuals with disabilities through capital and operating projects.

Support capital and operating costs of public transportation in non-urbanized areas.

Assist transit systems in urbanized areas with capital and operating costs.

Lend for rail infrastructure, rail-served facilities and rail line rehabilitation that boost economic activity.

Preserve essential freight rail lines and rehabilitate track and bridges.

Help Great Lakes and Mississippi River harbor communities maintain and improve waterborne commerce.

Reduce traffic fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads through data-driven safety projects.

Rehabilitate and replace the most seriously deteriorating local bridges on a cost-shared basis.

Help local governments improve seriously deteriorating county highways, town roads, and city and village streets.

Fund standalone traffic signal and intelligent transportation systems projects not incidental to other highway work.

Lend for surface transportation projects that support economic development or transportation efficiency, safety and mobility.

Provide operating cost assistance to transit systems to ease local tax burdens.

Fund local and regional transit studies and plans.

Improve non-federal-aid roads (rural minor collectors and local roads) outside urbanized areas.

Improve federal-aid-eligible highways outside urban areas, primarily county trunk highways.

Improve federal-aid-eligible roads and streets in urban areas.

Fund projects that reduce traffic fatalities and injuries on Wisconsin roads.

Fund bicycle, pedestrian, Safe Routes to School and other transportation alternatives projects.

Fund road, rail, harbor and airport improvements needed to attract or keep jobs in Wisconsin.

Help Wisconsin's federally recognized Tribes provide transportation to tribal elders on and off reservations.

Connect low-income workers with jobs through improved local transportation services.

Helps local governments conduct initial environmental assessment and demolition on abandoned, idle or underutilized industrial or commercial sites.

Assists with remediation of environmental contamination at abandoned, idle or underused industrial or commercial sites so they become productive, redevelopment-ready properties.

Supports job creation, capital investment, training and corporate headquarters location or retention with refundable tax credits.

Strengthens organizations that drive local development, fostering an advanced economic development network in Wisconsin.

Seeds and scales locally managed investment funds that back high-growth startups across Wisconsin.

Supports urban, small city and rural community (re)development efforts by providing financial incentives for shovel-ready projects, with emphasis on downtown community-driven efforts.

Supports development of new and existing cooperatives through planning and exploratory research before a large investment.

Attracts data centers to Wisconsin by exempting eligible expenditures from state sales and use tax.

Builds the capacity of nonprofit organizations that provide financial and technical assistance to businesses in economically disadvantaged communities, underserved markets, or both.

Provides communities a portion of eligible due diligence costs incurred in WEDC's Certified Sites process, to increase the supply of certified shovel-ready industrial sites.

Assists significant business expansions and relocations to Wisconsin with refundable tax credits.

Helps Wisconsin companies build a customized international growth plan through an export acceleration program, with WEDC-funded scholarships.

Helps Wisconsin companies build international sales relationships through WEDC-led trade missions with subsidized in-market business services.

Helps owners rehabilitate certified historic income-producing buildings with a state income tax credit.

Helps communities implement redevelopment plans for large commercial, institutional or industrial sites that have been idle, abandoned or underutilized for at least two years.

Funds regional consortia that build dense, well-connected entrepreneurial ecosystems for high-tech, high-growth startups.

Reimburses Wisconsin companies for specific expenses of a short-term export development project to grow their presence in an international market.

Sponsors bids for and hosting of high-impact events and opportunities that bring out-of-state visitors and visibility to Wisconsin.

Encourages investment in early-stage Wisconsin businesses with a 25% tax credit for investors in certified companies.

Incentivizes rehabilitating or maintaining existing short-line rail infrastructure.

Incentivizes modernizing rail infrastructure or reactivating inactive rail infrastructure.

Encourages communities and economic development partners to create programs that broaden small businesses' access to capital.

Funds organizations that provide business training, mentorship, community building and networking so they can increase traditional small business activity across Wisconsin.

Provides venture debt to help companies move innovative, technology-driven products from concept to market.

Helps communities create vibrant and engaging public gathering spaces that make it easier to recruit and retain residents and enhance local quality of life.

Grants to local governments to help businesses create or retain jobs for low- and moderate-income people.

Helps local governments address housing, public facility, infrastructure and business needs caused by natural or manmade disasters.

Supports local government housing programs that primarily benefit low- and moderate-income households.

Supports community planning that improves community opportunities and vitality and, if implemented, meets a CDBG National Objective.

Grants to local governments for public infrastructure that supports business expansion and creates or retains jobs for low- and moderate-income people.

Helps local governments build or improve infrastructure and community facilities critical to community vitality.

Funds emergency shelter, street outreach, rapid re-housing, homelessness prevention, HMIS and housing assistance for people experiencing homelessness.

Helps communities connect people experiencing homelessness with paid work experience, training and employment support.

Funds local programs that help low- and moderate-income households buy homes and rehabilitate owner-occupied homes.

Funds development of rental units reserved for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness and other HOME-ARP qualifying populations.

Funds supportive services for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness and other HOME-ARP qualifying populations.

Funds intensive case management for families experiencing homelessness in shelters or motel voucher programs.

Helps low- and moderate-income households achieve and keep homeownership.

Funds housing assistance and supportive services for low-income people living with HIV/AIDS and their families.

Funds production and preservation of rental housing for extremely low-income households.

Funds local administrators who provide recovery housing and services for people experiencing homelessness who have an opioid use disorder.

Funds acquisition, rehabilitation and new construction of affordable rental housing for households at or below 60% of county median income.

Helps Wisconsin local governments, rural areas and school districts strengthen cybersecurity.

Provides operating funds to emergency shelter and motel voucher programs.

Funds local agencies to provide rent, security deposit and utility deposit assistance to households facing housing instability.

Supports the management, protection and restoration of Wisconsin's Great Lakes coastal resources and increases public access to the Great Lakes.

Funds the modernization of county land records, including the statewide digital parcel map.

Lets buyers purchase and renovate a home with one WHEDA mortgage.

Finances repairs and improvements for current Wisconsin homeowners.

Guarantees loans that help businesses develop or expand production of products using Wisconsin's raw agricultural commodities.

Offers a loan guarantee for Wisconsin farmers who have suffered damage from extensive flooding, drought or other natural disasters.

Provides a $7,500, 0%-interest deferred second mortgage for down payment assistance on a limited-funding basis.

Guarantees lender loans that help contractors complete contracts and expand their businesses.

Guarantees agricultural production loans for farmers.

Provides a second-mortgage loan for down payment and closing costs paired with a WHEDA first mortgage.

Guarantees loans for agricultural producers who want to start, expand or modernize their operations.

Allocates federal 9% and State of Wisconsin Housing Tax Credits to produce and preserve affordable rental housing.

Awards federal 4% Housing Tax Credits, with tax-exempt bond volume cap, to affordable rental projects on a first-complete, first-reviewed basis.

Provides low-cost loans to cover installing, replacing, upgrading or improving public infrastructure for workforce or senior housing.

Provides lower-than-market-rate loans to repair older owner-occupied homes.

Guarantees loans that bring or expand businesses, or develop or rehabilitate commercial real estate, in urban areas.

Helps renovate rental units above street-level commercial space in existing main-street buildings.

Helps convert vacant commercial buildings into workforce or senior housing.

Provides 30-year fixed-rate first mortgages for Wisconsin home buyers under WHEDA income limits.

Provides Wisconsin businesses with financing they could not otherwise secure through traditional lending by pairing WHEDA with community lenders.

Guarantees lender loans so qualified Wisconsin small businesses can acquire or expand with favorable financing terms.

Offers a manually underwritten first mortgage for first-time buyers who are financially prepared but fall outside the traditional credit box.

Supports implementation or expansion of district-wide K-12 comprehensive programs to prevent and ameliorate alcohol and other drug abuse among minors.

Supports instruction in one or more American Indian languages as curricular or co-curricular offerings in Wisconsin schools.

Helps LEAs remove barriers to enrollment, attendance and success for students experiencing homelessness under the McKinney-Vento Act.

Provides free fresh fruits and vegetables to all children in participating elementary schools during the school day.

Provides gifted and talented pupils with services and activities not ordinarily provided in a regular school program.

Funds out-of-school-time academic enrichment and family engagement programs for students at high-need schools.

Supports mentoring and peer assistance programs for educators in their first three years in the profession.

Supports peer-to-peer suicide prevention programs that train high school students to recognize signs of suicide in fellow students.

Funds the operation of recovery high schools for pupils in recovery from substance use disorder.

Funds planning to establish a recovery high school.

Helps student teams in grades 6-12 participate in robotics competitions.

Increases teacher candidates' exposure to rural schools by funding CESA-coordinated placements in rural districts.

Funds student-designed education, prevention and intervention projects targeting alcohol and other drug abuse and related youth risk behaviors.

Provides enhanced instructional opportunities for immigrant children and youth in LEAs with significant enrollment increases.

Supports students with disabilities in transitioning from high school to competitive work and postsecondary education.

Helps school food authorities buy equipment that supports healthier school meals, food safety and expanded meal participation.

Reduce the marketing, distribution and processing hurdles that limit sales of Wisconsin food products to local purchasers.

Reimburse local collection and disposal of agricultural pesticides, farm chemicals, household hazardous waste and unwanted prescription drugs.

Fund on-farm research that optimizes commercial nitrogen application while protecting soil and water.

Encourage cover crops by rebating crop insurance premiums on enrolled acres.

Foster innovation, improve profitability and sustain the long-term viability of Wisconsin's dairy processing facilities.

Accelerate the growth of Wisconsin dairy, meat and crop product exports.

Help counties prepare or update a state-certified farmland preservation plan.

Fund nonprofit food assistance organizations to buy Wisconsin food and distribute it at no cost while supporting Wisconsin food producers and processors.

Grow Wisconsin's meat industry and improve the long-term viability of the livestock sector.

Fund local organizations to teach farmers to write their own nutrient management plans.

Help organic farmers and processors pay for organic certification.

Improve Wisconsin's soil and water quality by supporting producer-led nonpoint source pollution abatement in local watersheds.

Fund county land and water conservation staff, landowner cost-sharing and statewide conservation cooperators.

Enhance the competitiveness of Wisconsin's specialty crop industries in domestic and foreign markets.

Purchase and distribute food to Tribal elders while supporting food producers, including Tribal producers.

Reimburses schools for creating interactive critical incident mapping data of school buildings that is shared with DOJ and local law enforcement.

Helps Wisconsin Deflection Initiative sites modernize deflection program processes through technology.

Funds county law enforcement operations in counties bordering tribal lands, using Indian gaming receipts.

Funds cooperative county-tribal law enforcement programs from Indian gaming receipts.

Funds local and tribal law enforcement response to drug trafficking.

Provides emergency, short-term funding to help schools respond to and recover from critical incidents that traumatize a school community.

Supports rape crisis centers and other nonprofit organizations that provide core services, direct intervention and related assistance to sexual assault survivors.

Develops, expands and supports comprehensive sexual assault victim services so they are available to victims wherever they live in Wisconsin.

Supports county and tribal treatment and diversion programs for non-violent adult offenders whose criminal activity involved substance abuse.

Funds tribal law enforcement operations from Indian gaming receipts.

Strengthens the criminal justice system's response to domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence and stalking and supports services for survivors.

Funds public and nonprofit agencies to provide direct services to victims of violent crime.

Helps federally recognized tribes improve services to tribal veterans.

Helps counties develop, maintain and expand transportation services for veterans.

Helps county veterans service offices improve services to county veterans.

Provides limited health care and subsistence aid to veterans and military families in financial hardship after other sources of aid are exhausted.

Supports local governments that provide fire and emergency medical services to veterans homes and other veterans facilities.

Funds nonprofits that provide financial assistance or other services to veterans and their dependents.

Funds county and tribal veteran service offices to develop and field telehealth capabilities for rural Wisconsin veterans.

Funds nonprofits that provide entrepreneurship training or business assistance to veteran entrepreneurs.