At R/M, we understand that the grant application process can be incredibly complex and time consuming, especially when you’re faced with increasingly limited resources. We also understand that grants are imperative to funding essential municipal projects.
Our goal is to ease the burden of the application process for your community. We will work with you in the early stages of your project planning to make the grant application process as smooth and cost-effective as possible. Collecting relevant information and working together with project teams to develop successful applications has enabled us to secure millions of dollars in grant funding for local communities.
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Fund multimodal transportation projects, projects that enhance existing bike/pedestrian facilities or projects involving safety-related infrastructure.
Application Deadline: See WisDOT
Fund local road or bridge improvement projects. Roads must be of functional classification of collector of higher. Separate programs for rural and urban areas.
Application Deadline: See WisDOT
Under the American Rescue Plan, EDA was allocated $3 billion in supplemental funding to assist communities nationwide in their efforts to build back better by accelerating the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and building local economies that will be resilient to future economic shocks.
Previous allocations included the FY-2020 Public Works and Economic Adjustment Assistance Program.
Application Deadline: Rolling
CDBG seek to offer affordable housing, suitable living conditions, and economic opportunity primarily to benefit individuals with low to moderate income. Environmental reviews (ERRs) must be completed. The participating community must agree to undertake at least three (3) activities to support fair housing.
Application Deadline: Anytime
The Urban Nonpoint Source & Storm Water (UNPS&SW) Management Grant Program offers competitive grants to local governments for the control of pollution from diffuse urban sources that is carried by storm water runoff. Grants from the UNPS&SW Program reimburse costs of planning or construction projects controlling urban nonpoint source and storm water runoff pollution.
Application Deadline: Planning grant applications are due April 17, 2023. Construction and Planning grant applications are available every other year, on alternate years.
Land acquisition projects and development projects for nature-based outdoor recreation.
Application Deadline: May 1
The Clean Water Fund Program (CWFP) provides financial assistance to municipalities for wastewater and storm water infrastructure projects. It includes projects for compliance with a municipality's WPDES permit.
Application Deadline: Applications are accepted year-round, if not requesting principal forgiveness. Intent-to-apply Oct. 31 (for following FY).
The goal of the Community Development Investment (CDI) Grant Program is to incent primarily downtown community development in the state of Wisconsin.
Application Deadline: Anytime
The Fund for Lake Michigan Grant Program supports organizations and communities committed to enhancing the Lake’s health through projects with both immediate and long-term benefits.
Application Deadline: Pre-proposals accepted on a rolling basis throughout the year, grants decided quarterly.
The goal of the Idle Sites Redevelopment Program is to incent community redevelopment of sites that have been idle, abandoned, or underutilized for a period of at least five years in the state of Wisconsin.
Application Deadline: Year-round
Established in 1991, the Local Roads Improvement Program (LRIP) assists local governments in improving seriously deteriorating county highways, town roads, and city and village streets.
This grant is available to all cities, villages, towns, tribes, and metropolitan sewerage districts. Assistance is provided with items such as: the acquisition of property, vacant land, structure removal, flood proofing, administrative support, and others.
Application Deadline: March 15, 2024 (even-numbered years only)
The ORLP is a nationally competitive grant program funded through the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). The ORLP offers nationally competitive grants specifically to help create and improve state and locally-owned parks and other outdoor recreation areas in ways that will help the public to access or re-connect with the outdoors, particularly in city neighborhoods that lack parks and recreational opportunities.
Application Deadline: May 31, 2023
Public Facilities Economic Development Grants are awarded to local governments for public infrastructure projects that support business expansion or retention.
Application Deadline: Anytime
These grants may be used by counties, towns, cities, villages, tribes, sanitary districts, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation districts, and qualified lake associations for recreational boating facility projects.
Application Deadline: Anytime; Quarterly Funding Rewards
Municipal governments and incorporated organizations are eligible to receive reimbursement for development and maintenance of recreational trails and trail-related facilities for both motorized and non-motorized recreational trail uses.
Application Deadline: May 1
Provides guaranteed loan financing and grant funding to agricultural producers and rural small businesses to purchase or install renewable energy systems or make energy efficiency improvements. Beginning Oct. 1, 2020, this program will be streamlined under the OneRD Guarantee Loan Initiative.
Application Deadline: Year-round
The Safe Drinking Water Loan Program (SDWLP) provides financial assistance to municipalities for drinking water infrastructure projects.
Application Deadline: Intent-to-apply: Oct 31 (for following FY); Applications: June 30
The Surface Water Grants provide assistance to municipalities for river protection, local lake ordinance development, lake protection, lake management planning, and invasive species prevention and control.
Application Deadline: Eligibility May 1; Pre-application September 15; Application November 15
Sustain Our Great Lakes is a public–private partnership designed to address these threats and improve the ecological health of the Great Lakes basin. Its mission is to sustain, restore, and protect fish, wildlife, and habitats in the basin by leveraging funding, building conservation capacity, and focusing partners and resources toward key ecological issues. The program achieves this mission, in part, by awarding grants for on-the-ground habitat restoration and enhancement.
Application Deadline: Pre-proposal - February 14, 2023; Proposal - April 25, 2023
The Targeted Runoff Management (TRM) Grant Program offers competitive grants for local governments for the control of pollution that comes from diffuse sources, also called “nonpoint source” (NPS) pollution. Grants from the TRM Program reimburse costs for agricultural or urban runoff management practices in targeted, critical geographic areas with surface water or groundwater quality concerns.
Application Deadline: April 24, 2023
The Transportation Economic Assistance (TEA) program provides matching state grants to governing bodies for road, rail, harbor, and airport projects that help attract employers to Wisconsin, or encourage business and industry to remain and expand in the state.
Application Deadline: Year-round
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources offers urban forestry grants to cities, villages, towns, counties, tribes, and 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations in or conducting projects in Wisconsin. These grants fall into three categories: regular grants, startup grants, and catastrophic storm grants.
The intent of the Urban Green Space Program (UGS) is to provide open natural space within or in proximity to urban areas; to protect from urban development areas within or in proximity to urban areas that have scenic, ecological, or other natural value; and to provide land for noncommercial gardening for the residents of an urbanized area.
Application Deadline: May 1
The Urban Rivers program aims to restore or preserve the character of urban riverways through the acquisition or development of land adjacent to rivers.
Application Deadline: May 1
This program provides funding for clean and reliable drinking water systems, sanitary sewage disposal, sanitary solid waste disposal, and storm water drainage to households and businesses in eligible rural areas.
Application Deadline: Year-round.
Wisconsin Coastal Management Program (WCMP) is dedicated to preserving and improving access to the natural and historic resources of Wisconsin's Great Lakes coasts. Since 1978, the program has worked cooperatively with state, local, and tribal government agencies and non-profit organizations to manage the ecological, economic, and aesthetic assets of the Great Lakes coastal areas.
Application Deadline: April 24, 2023
The SISP funds traffic signals and intelligent transportation systems (ITS) projects not incidental to other highway improvement projects.
Application Deadline: Biannual cycle