U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development
Community Development Block Grants/Entitlement Grants
Key facts
- Open now
- 1 grant
- Opening soon
- 1 grant
- Closed for this year
- 2 grants, next round estimated
- Type of help
- Formula grant (amounts set by a formula)
- Typical award
- From low of $63,935 to a high of $169,345,195 for New York City; average grant $1,949,851; median grant $897,413.
- Deadlines
- Nov 15, 2025 to Aug 16, 2026 For formula grants in the 2026 fiscal year, Annual Action Plans associated with the Consolidated Plan must be submitted based on the grantee's program year, but no earlier than the date...
How this money reaches Tennessee: this is a formula program. The federal government sends it to the state (or to large cities and counties), and a Tennessee agency usually passes it on to local groups as pass-through grants. Ask the state agency that runs it, or your regional development district, when their next local round opens.
The open grant below is for the governments the formula names. Most local groups apply through the state agency instead.
Open now
- Community Development Block Grant Subrecipient Application · Rolling: apply any time
Opening soon
Announced, but you can't apply yet. Get ready now.
- CDBG Public Service Grants · Opening date not announced
Closed for this year
This year's round is over. GrantMe estimated the next round from last year's dates.
- HUD Public Service Grants (CDBG / ESG Public Services funding) · Next round: due about Feb 9, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
- CDBG Subrecipient Grant Program (public services and home repair) · Next round: about Apr 1 – Apr 30, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
What it pays for
The primary objective of this program is the development of viable urban communities by providing decent housing, a suitable living environment, and expanding economic opportunities, principally for persons of low- and moderate-income. Each activity funded must meet one of the program's National Objectives by: Benefiting low- and moderate-income families; aiding in the prevention or elimination of slums or blight; or meeting other community
development needs having a particular urgency because existing conditions pose a serious and immediate threat to the health or welfare of the community where other financial resources are not available.
Who can apply
Recipients are cities in Metropolitan Areas designated by OMB as a central city of the Metropolitan Area; principal cities of Metropolitan Areas with populations of less than 50,000; other cities over 50,000 in population in Metropolitan Areas; and qualified urban counties of at least 200,000 (excluding the population in entitlement cities located within the boundaries of such counties) are eligible to receive CDBG entitlement grants determined by a statutory formula.
Match
Match: none required (federal program listing). Statutory Formula: Title 24, Part 570, Subpart A,Public Law 93-383.Entitlement grant amounts are determined by formula
Groups like yours that won this
Proof that a church or faith-based group can apply: these Tennessee groups won it (some through a state agency). Ask one of them how they did it.
- Downtown Memphis Ministry, Inc. · Memphis, Shelby County · fiscal year 2025 · $30K spent that year · through City of Memphis Division of Housing and Community Development · who else funds them
- Chattanooga Church Ministries, Inc. · Chattanooga · fiscal year 2025 · $639K spent that year · who else funds them
- First Presbyterian Church of Clarksville Inc · Clarksville, Montgomery County · fiscal year 2024 · $40K · through City of Clarksville · who else funds them
- Downtown Memphis Ministries · Memphis, Shelby County · fiscal year 2024 · $30K spent that year · through US. Department of Housing and Urban Development · who else funds them
- Volunteer Ministry Center, Inc. · Knoxville · fiscal year 2024 · $74K spent that year · through Knox County · who else funds them
- Volunteer Ministry Center, Inc. · Knoxville · fiscal year 2024 · $16K spent that year · through City of Knoxville · who else funds them
- Volunteer Ministry Center · Knoxville, Knox County · fiscal year 2024 · $160K · through County of Knox · who else funds them
- Connect Ministries (COMMUNITY Organization Networking Neighborhoods Encouraging Change, Together) · Knoxville, Knox County · fiscal year 2024 · $70K · through County of Knox · who else funds them
Who in Tennessee has won this program
104 awards to Tennessee groups since 2019. Largest shown:
| Past winner | Where | Amount | Fiscal year |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Memphis, Tennessee | Memphis, Shelby County | $9.2M | 2021 |
| City of Memphis | Memphis, Shelby County | $6.9M spent that year | 2025 |
| City of Memphis, Tennessee | Memphis, Shelby County | $6.9M | 2021 |
| City of Memphis, Tennessee | Memphis, Shelby County | $6.8M | 2020 |
| City of Memphis, Tennessee | Memphis, Shelby County | $6.6M | 2019 |
| City of Memphis, Tennessee | Memphis, Shelby County | $6.6M | |
| City of Memphis, Tennessee | Memphis, Shelby County | $6.4M | 2023 |
| City of Memphis, Tennessee | Memphis, Shelby County | $6.4M | 2022 |
| City of Memphis, Tennessee | Memphis, Shelby County | $6.1M | 2024 |
| City of Memphis, Tennessee | Memphis, Shelby County | $6M | 2025 |
| Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County | Nashville, Davidson County | $5.4M | 2025 |
| Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County | Nashville, Davidson County | $5.1M | 2024 |
Source: USAspending.gov, Federal Audit Clearinghouse.
Tennessee groups that got this money through a state agency or another organization
This federal money also reaches local groups as pass-through grants. In Tennessee, Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development and Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation and Tennessee Department of Transportation pass it on: watch those agencies for applications, not the federal agency. 101 pass-through grants on file. Largest shown:
| Past winner | Where | Through | Amount | Fiscal year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Development & Housing Agency | Nashville, Davidson County | Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davison County, Tennessee | $14.7M spent that year | 2023 |
| The Hospitality Hub of Memphis | Memphis, Shelby County | City of Memphis, TN | $1.5M spent that year | 2023 |
| Chattanooga Housing Authority | Chattanooga, Hamilton County | City of Chattanooga | $1.2M spent that year | 2025 |
| City of Millington | Millington, Shelby County | Shelby County, Tennessee | $1M spent that year | 2023 |
| Room in the Inn, Inc. | Nashville, Davidson County | Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency | $843K spent that year | 2024 |
| City of Bartlett, Tennessee | Bartlett, Shelby County | Shelby County | $593K spent that year | 2025 |
| Centerstone of America, Inc. | Nashville, Davidson County | Lee County | $581K spent that year | 2023 |
| Knoxville-Knox County Community Action Committee | Knoxville, Knox County | City of Knoxville, Tennessee | $536K spent that year | 2024 |
| Knoxville Leadership Foundation, Inc. | Knoxville, Knox County | City of Knoxville | $523K spent that year | 2024 |
| The Crossroads Campus | Nashville, Davidson County | Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency | $512K spent that year | 2023 |
| Helen Ross Mcnabb Center, Inc | Knoxville, Knox County | Department of Economic and Community Development Through Knox County, Tennessee | $497K spent that year | 2025 |
| Habitat for Humanity of Greater Memphis | Memphis, Shelby County | City of Memphis, TN | $488K spent that year | 2025 |
Source: USAspending.gov pass-through reports (the first recipient reports each one of $30,000 or more).