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The Environmental Justice Small Grants (EJSG) Program provides funding directly to community-based organizations for projects that help residents of underserved communities understand and address local environmental and public health issues. The term “underserved community” refers to a community with environmental justice concerns and/or vulnerable populations, including people of color, low income, rural, tribal, indigenous, and homeless populations that may be disproportionately impacted by environmental harms and risks. In general, the EJSG program awards grants that support community-driven projects designed to engage, educate, and empower communities to better understand and address local environmental and public health issues. Community-driven projects are projects that include activities where community residents and/or representatives are integrally involved in the thinking behind and execution of those activities. Therefore, applying organizations should have a direct connection to the underserved community impacted by environmental harms and risks.
This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the
administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.
For more information on each of these data sources, please see the
About the data page.
This program was not funded in FY 2016. The limited availability of funds resulted in the inability to offer multiple assistance programs
This program was not funded in FY 2016. The limited availability of funds resulted in the inability to offer multiple assistance programs
In FY 2017, 188 applications were received and 35 awards were made.
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Successful projects funded through the Environmental Justice Small Grants Program, along with associated accomplishments, can be found at: https://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice/environmental-justice-small-grants-program#PastGrantees
In 2021, 99 organizations nationwide were selected to receive awards of approximately $75,000 each for one-year projects. These grants will benefit communities in 37 different states, as well as Washington DC and Puerto Rico. In 2021, for the first time ever, EPA created a designation for small nonprofit organizations and set-aside funding exclusively for those qualifying organizations. Per the 2021 Request for Applications (RFA), a small nonprofit is defined as a non-profit organization with 10 or fewer full-time employees on staff. This set-aside is intended to promote environmental justice funding to those communities and grassroots organizations that need it the most. 83 of the 99 projects (84%) are going to qualifying small nonprofits. The remaining 16 projects are going to larger nonprofit organizations and tribal governments. Additional program accomplishments for 2021 can be found here: https://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice/environmental-justice-small-grants-program.
For a list of accomplishments under this assistance listing, please visit: https://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice/environmental-justice-small-grants-program.
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
