South Carolina State Grants Portal

Funds institutes that give South Carolina public school teachers the special endorsement required to teach an AP course.

Small grants to Title I schools to build or expand dance, music, theatre and visual arts programs.

Funds tuition-free arts institutes that give South Carolina arts teachers, other teachers and arts administrators graduate credit or renewal credit.

One-year grants to schools and districts carrying out a strategic arts plan that covers all four arts forms.

Supports instructor and student training and testing in industry clusters through statewide trade associations.

Helps districts run evidence-based programs for at-risk students in grades 3-12 so they graduate meeting the Profile of the South Carolina Graduate.

Federal pass-through subgrants for youth sexual risk avoidance education.

Pays elementary schools to give students free fresh fruits and vegetables during the school day.

Pays colleges to offer tuition-free graduate courses for teachers seeking gifted and talented endorsement or certification.

Funds innovative, replicable pilot initiatives that raise student achievement in South Carolina public schools.

Federal pass-through subgrants helping districts identify, enroll and support students experiencing homelessness.

Kitchen equipment for schools that serve healthier meals, improve food safety or expand school breakfast.

Federal pass-through funds for before-school, after-school and summer community learning centers.

Federal pass-through funds for planning, program design and initial implementation of new charter schools.

A single state grant for promising abstinence-until-marriage programs that are not yet evidence-based.

State grants for rigorously evaluated abstinence-until-marriage programs for youth ages 10-19.

Funds community-district partnerships running summer reading camps for struggling elementary readers.

Federal pass-through funds for services to migratory children and youth.

Multi-year federal pass-through subgrants for adult education, family literacy, English literacy/civics and corrections education.

Annual support for ABC-certified schools carrying out their arts education strategic plans.

Helps organizations remove barriers so people with disabilities can fully access arts programs and facilities.

Three years of general operating support for established and emerging arts organizations.

Small project grants for artists' and organizations' arts projects, marketing, events and professional development.

Three-year support for arts organizations to prioritize accessibility for constituents and artists with disabilities.

Funds creative placemaking work set out in a cultural district's approved strategic plan.

Two-year support for school districts making standards-based arts part of the basic curriculum.

Follow-on project funding for alumni of the Emerging Artist grant.

Project funding plus mentorship for early-career South Carolina artists.

Supports arts activities at community festivals that raise public participation in arts and culture.

Keeps South Carolina's living traditional arts visible and practiced in community life.

$10,000 fellowships recognizing the artistic achievement of exceptional South Carolina artists.

Supports planning, creation, installation and maintenance of local public art.

Helps schools buy arts supplies, materials, equipment, professional development or creative arts therapy services.

Funds summer arts education programs for preschool (3K-4K) and K-12 students.

Funds school-year arts education programs, including beyond the school day, for preschool and K-12 students.

Supports arts-based projects that use the arts to address issues in rural South Carolina communities.

Remaining ARC highway funds for local access roads that support economic development.

Flexible discretionary grants to close competitive, high-impact business location or expansion deals.

Discretionary grants for roads, water/sewer, site work and real property tied to business recruitment.

Discretionary withholding-based reimbursement of approved project costs for companies creating jobs.

Income or withholding tax credits for companies that grow cargo volume through South Carolina ports.

Competitive grants to organizations that help small businesses and innovation-driven companies launch and grow.

Implementation-ready rural projects in infrastructure, sites, downtowns, parks, transportation and workforce.

Discretionary grants for infrastructure, sites, speculative buildings and training in rural counties.

Reimbursement of pre-approved export costs for small South Carolina businesses.

Matching grants for applied research teams pairing SC companies with SC university and Fraunhofer USA researchers.

Competitive federal-state grants for infrastructure, workforce, health access, housing and conservation projects in 39 SC counties.

Grants or performance-based loans that help local governments land job-creating business projects.

Public facilities, demolition, streetscapes, libraries, childcare and public safety projects that strengthen LMI communities.

Water, sewer, road and drainage improvements for low- and moderate-income residential communities.

Community development needs the other State CDBG categories do not usually fund, such as historic preservation, parks, trails and innovation.

Construction funding for shovel-ready public facility projects addressing urgent or compelling needs.

Grants up to $2,500 for student-led school environmental projects.

Competitive grants for campus recycling, reuse, composting and waste reduction projects.

State cost-share grants to correct deficiencies at high and significant hazard dams.

No-match grants to address PFAS and other emerging contaminants in small or disadvantaged water systems.

Grants for school projects that teach waste reduction and recycling.

Below-market loans, with partial forgiveness for public and nonprofit borrowers, for brownfield cleanup.

Pays for environmental assessments of brownfield sites with redevelopment potential.

Funding to implement approved watershed plans that cut nonpoint source pollution.

Competitive grants for local government recycling and waste reduction projects.

Cost-shared grants to replace, repower or retrofit old diesel vehicles, engines and equipment.

Grants for local collection programs for used motor oil, filters and oil/gas mixtures.

State income tax credit for voluntary brownfield cleanup expenses.

Grants for collecting and recycling waste tires and cleaning up tire dumps.

25% state tax credit (up to $2,500) for building or restoring ponds and water control structures.

Funds nine-element watershed plans that protect surface water sources of drinking water.

State funding assistance to local governments for beach renourishment projects.

Cash rebates on South Carolina wages and SC supplier spending for qualified film and TV productions.

Federal matching grants to acquire or develop public outdoor recreation areas and facilities.

State income tax credits for investing in SC motion pictures and production facilities.

Nationally competitive LWCF grants for new or significantly improved parks in qualifying urban areas, nominated through SCPRT.

Noncompetitive county allocations for building or renovating local public recreation facilities.

Nationally competitive LWCF grants for public recreation land near military installations.

Federal reimbursement grants to build and maintain motorized and nonmotorized recreational trails.

Production funding and support for narrative films made with South Carolina college students as crew trainees.

Matching funds to bid for and host new sporting events in South Carolina.

Competitive matching reimbursement for direct tourism advertising that attracts out-of-market visitors.

Matching reimbursement grants for publicly owned tourism attractions in developing destinations.

State-appropriated grants for buying, maintaining, replacing and storing body-worn cameras.

Federal grants for crisis intervention, specialty courts and behavioral health deflection to reduce gun violence.

Federal pass-through grants for personnel, equipment, training and systems that improve the criminal justice system.

Federal NHTSA funds for enforcement, education and prosecution projects that reduce traffic crashes, injuries and deaths.

State grants for in-car video cameras and their maintenance and storage, with priority for DUI enforcement.

Federal OJJDP formula grants for delinquency prevention, diversion, treatment and juvenile justice system improvement.

Federal grants to improve the quality and timeliness of forensic science and medical examiner services.

Federal grants to reduce gun and gang violence, administered by DPS as fiscal agent for the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Federal grants for substance use treatment during detention or incarceration plus aftercare at reentry.

State funds for law enforcement agencies to place certified officers as SROs in schools that cannot otherwise afford one.

Competitive grants and mentorship for agricultural entrepreneurs growing or expanding their market.

Free fall business-planning course for farmers that ends with a pitch for one of five $5,000 grants.

Cash reimbursement grants that help counties land agribusiness establishment or expansion projects.

Reimburses specialty crop farmers for installing CoolBot cold storage systems.

Reimburses growers for Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) audit costs and GAP-related on-farm improvements.

Covers half the registration fee for specialty crop growers attending approved educational conferences.

Income or withholding tax credit for agribusinesses that increase purchases of certified South Carolina-grown products.

Competitive subgrants that enhance the competitiveness of South Carolina's specialty crop industries.

Multi-state collaborative projects on regional or national specialty crop issues, submitted to USDA through SCDA.

Competitive federal housing tax credits for new and rehabilitated affordable rental developments.

Tax-exempt bond financing, paired with 4% housing credits, for larger affordable apartment developments.

Reduced-rate mortgages and $10,000 forgivable down payment assistance for public servants.

Non-bond fixed-rate mortgages for moderate-income buyers with optional forgivable down payment assistance.

Fixed-rate first mortgages with $10,000 forgivable down payment assistance for first-time buyers.

Critical home repairs for low and very low-income homeowners, delivered through approved Sponsors.

Financing for shelters, transitional and permanent supportive housing with services for people with complex needs.

Combined HOME, National HTF and SC HTF financing for small affordable rental projects of 4 to 39 units.

State gap-filling housing credit layered on federal LIHTC developments.

Loans or transfers federal excess vehicles and equipment to fire departments.

State cost-share for site preparation, tree planting and timber stand improvement on private forestland.

Pays 80% (up to $18,000) toward portable logging bridges and mats that protect streams.

Federal cost-share for precommercial thinning and replanting to prevent southern pine beetle losses.

Federal urban forestry funding; the FY26 round funds technical assistance to help communities manage their tree canopy.

50/50 matching grants up to $5,000 for wildland firefighting equipment and training.

Low-interest loans for wastewater treatment, collection and nonpoint source projects.

Low-interest loans for drinking water treatment, storage and distribution.

Construction grants for water, wastewater and stormwater projects that protect health and fix failing systems.

Water, sewer and drainage grants that support job creation and retention.

Planning studies for regional water or wastewater partnerships that improve utility viability.

Assessment, planning and capital grants for small or struggling public water and sewer utilities.

Matching subgrants for historic property surveys, National Register nominations, preservation planning, education and CLG stabilization projects.

State grants to plan and carry out stabilization and weatherization of historic buildings.

State income tax credit of 25% of qualifying rehabilitation costs on an owner-occupied historic home.

NHPRC-funded grants for preserving and providing access to South Carolina's historical records.

State income tax credit of 10% or an optional 25% of rehabilitation costs on income-producing historic buildings.

State-funded mini grants for evidence-informed community violence intervention.

Subawards to community-based organizations for HIV, STD and viral hepatitis prevention.

Federal HOPWA subawards for housing help for low-income people with HIV.

Federal pass-through grants for evidence-based teen pregnancy and STI prevention for youth.

Subawards for medical and support services for low-income people with HIV.

Reimburses public libraries for sending staff to conferences and continuing education courses.

Reimburses public libraries for part of an employee's tuition toward a Master's in Library and Information Science.

Small grants for consultants or temporary staff to do community needs assessments and strategic or project planning.

Funds library programs that bring SNAP-accepting farmers, nutrition education and food-themed books to families.

Up to $2,000 for public library summer reading and learning activities.

Subawards to modernize rural health IT and expand remote patient monitoring and assistive technology.

Subawards to scale proven chronic disease management programs into rural South Carolina.

Subawards for rural facility enhancements, provider masterclass training and clinician recruitment.

Subawards for mobile crisis response and community care sites that bring in-person care to rural residents.

Two-year matching grants for dementia-specific respite, caregiver education and innovative community programs.

Grants to nonprofits for innovative programs that help older adults age in place and avoid institutional care.

Medical school loan repayment for geriatricians and geriatric psychiatrists who commit to practice in South Carolina.

Capital grants to renovate, expand or make emergency health-and-safety repairs to senior centers.

Federal disaster grants, passed through SCEMD, for debris removal, emergency protective measures and repair of public facilities after a declared disaster.

FEMA-funded, SCEMD-managed grants for long-term hazard mitigation projects after a Presidential disaster declaration.

State-funded reimbursement of local disaster costs when federal Public Assistance is not available.

Low-interest (1%) loans for local hazard mitigation projects or the non-federal match on eligible mitigation projects.

Matching funds to de-risk technology trials, demonstrations and testing with a corporate partner.

State match for SC startups holding SBIR/STTR or other federal commercialization awards.

Reimburses moving and fit-up costs for technology companies relocating to South Carolina.

Non-dilutive early-stage grants that move SCRA member startups toward commercialization and follow-on funding.

Small grants for evidence-based events and trainings that build knowledge and skills in the DD Council's priority areas.

Annual project grants advancing the SC Developmental Disabilities Council's State Plan objectives in employment, community supports and self-advocacy.

Annual competitive HUD ESG subgrants for shelters, street outreach, rapid re-housing and homelessness prevention.

Multi-year block grant funding for nonprofits delivering community mental health services to adults with serious mental illness and children with serious emotional disturbance.

Sub-grants for peer-led recovery community organizations and related recovery supports.

Sub-grants that let county alcohol and drug abuse authorities enhance local substance use primary prevention.

WIOA funding to help employers retrain current employees for new technology, processes or layoff aversion.

Reimburses employers for part of a new hire's wages during on-the-job training.

WIOA-supported training designed around a specific employer's hiring needs.

Federal grants for transient tie-up facilities for recreational boats 26 feet and longer.

Reimburses up to 75% of building, operating and maintaining boat sewage pumpout stations.

FEMA planning and project grants to reduce flood losses to NFIP-insured property.

FEMA homeland security funds, passed through SLED, that build state and local capability to prevent, protect against, respond to and recover from terrorism and other hazards.

FEMA security funding for at-risk nonprofits, applied for through SLED as the State Administrative Agency.

Federal cybersecurity subgrants, passed through SLED, for local governments to assess and improve the security of their information systems.

Low-interest revolving loans for energy-efficiency improvements in public buildings and nonprofits.

Revolving loans that let businesses finance energy-saving projects repaid from the savings.

Competitive grants for high-impact energy efficiency, renewable energy and clean transportation projects.

Post-disaster state reserve for non-federal match, cash-flow loans and grants, and uncovered infrastructure repairs.

Loans and grants to buy flooded properties and land for floodplain restoration.

State-appropriated grants for flood studies, stormwater design, restoration and construction, and voluntary residential buyouts.

State-funded victim assistance for victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, training programs and previously underserved victims.

Direct services to victims of violent crime: advocacy, counseling, residential shelter, forensic interviews and exams, emergency assistance.

Law enforcement, prosecution and victim-services strategies against domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence and stalking.

Federal transit funding for transportation serving seniors and people with disabilities in rural and small urban South Carolina.

Federal reimbursement grants for sidewalks, bike facilities, trails, Safe Routes to School and other non-motorized transportation projects.

NOAA Sea Grant research funding for one- to two-year coastal and marine projects.

Seed grants up to $10,000 for one-year pilot, emerging or emergency-response coastal projects.

Three-year competitive grants for college-based resource centers that improve teacher education, with a focus on rural and underperforming schools.

State grants to buy conservation easements or land for wildlife, water, farms, forests, history and parks.

Matching and non-matching grants for coastal homeowners to retrofit roofs and openings against hurricane and high-wind damage.

USDA meal and snack reimbursement for child care, adult care, afterschool and shelter programs that serve healthy food.

Grants to host counties and cities for projects that enhance military value, installation resilience or military family quality of life.

Per-child state funding, materials grants and coaching for private and charter providers offering free full-day 4K to qualifying children.