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Community Air Grants Cycle 5 Awards
CARB awarded a record-setting $20.9 million to 51 projects statewide, an investment to strengthen community-led air quality efforts, in the latest round of its Community Air Grants for Cycle 5— doubling the amount awarded in previous years. *New Cycle 5 Press Release. (May 2025)
Grant Term: The grant term will be approximately from June 2025 through March 2027 or December 2027, depending on the budget funding source awarded.
Below are the list of awardees and grant amounts.
Awardee | Award |
Bayview Concerned Citizens | $ 500,000 |
Breathe Southern California | $ 496,617 |
Building Resilient Communities | $ 300,000 |
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Stockton | $ 300,000 |
Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment | $ 500,000 |
Central California Asthma Collaborative_Project1_Focused | $ 500,000 |
Central California Asthma Collaborative_Project2_Technical | $ 500,000 |
Central California Environmental Justice Network | $ 300,000 |
Clean Water Fund | $ 400,000 |
Climate First Replacing Oil & Gas | $ 500,000 |
Climate Resolve | $ 500,000 |
Coalition for Clean Air | $ 291,685 |
Coastal Quest / Rise South City Project | $ 499,793 |
Communities for a Better Environment | $ 299,989 |
Community Climate Solutions | $ 300,000 |
Community Environmental Council | $ 499,760 |
Community Initiatives / California Safe Schools Project | $ 300,000 |
Earth Team | $ 299,986 |
Empower You Edutainment | $ 300,000 |
Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice | $ 500,000 |
Higher Ground Neighborhood Development Corporation | $ 498,495 |
IQAir Foundation_Project1 / Black Women for Wellness | $ 400,000 |
IQAir Foundation_Project2 / Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice | $ 400,000 |
Just Cities Institute | $ 300,000 |
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability | $ 500,000 |
Legacy LA Youth Development Corporation | $ 300,000 |
Lifers Leaving A Legacy | $ 500,000 |
Little Manila Foundation | $ 500,000 |
Madera Coalition for Community Justice | $ 300,000 |
Marie Harrison Community Foundation Inc. | $ 500,000 |
Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area | $ 495,568 |
Olimpico Learning | $ 300,000 |
OneOC_Project1_Educational | $ 299,997 |
OneOC_Project2_Technical | $ 500,000 |
Owens Valley Indian Water Commission | $ 498,960 |
Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles | $ 300,000 |
R-NOW | $ 250,000 |
Rodeo Citizens Association | $ 499,529 |
Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment | $ 500,000 |
San Leandro 2050 | $ 499,990 |
SLO Climate Coalition | $ 500,000 |
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs / Californians for Pesticide Reform Project | $ 500,000 |
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs / Central Valley Air Quality Coalition Project | $ 300,000 |
Sustainable Solano | $ 404,380 |
The Sac EJ Coalition | $ 500,000 |
Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians | $ 205,051 |
UNIDOS Network Inc | $ 402,854 |
United for Justice, Inc | $ 500,000 |
Valley Vision Inc. | $ 299,800 |
Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians | $ 357,554 |
West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project | $ 499,992 |
Pre-Application Assistance Workshop Series- CARB conducted three public virtual workshops on September 30, October 1, and October 8, 2024, to assist interested applicants with any questions in developing a competitive application in the Fall 2024.
September 30, 2024 / October 8, 2024 - Cycle 5 RFA Public Workshop
The same information was presented at the September 30 and October 8 workshops.
- Presentation Video
- Workshop PowerPoint presentation English | Spanish
- Workshop summary
October 1, 2024 - How to Prepare a Grant Proposal Workshop
- Presentation Video
- Workshop PowerPoint presentation English | Spanish
- Workshop summary
Grant Resources
- RFA Frequently Asked Questions (Oct 2024, .pdf)
- Cycle 5 Grant Factsheet (April 2024, .pdf)
- Cycle 5 Applicant Project Summaries (May 2025, .pdf)
- Awarded Project Summaries for Previous Cycles:
Cycle 5 RFA Development Background
In development of this RFA, CARB staff released a Draft RFA for public comment on July 19, 2024, and released its draft engagement plan. CARB’s outreach and engagement process will include representatives of communities consistently nominated for the CAPP, previous applicants, past and current grantees, air districts, Tribal governments, local land use agencies, academia, business, and industry. CARB invited interested stakeholders to provide written comments and conducted two public virtual workshops on August 20 and August 22, 2024, to hear from stakeholders on what should be considered in finalizing the RFA. Simultaneous Spanish translation was made available and the workshop presentation was provided in English and Spanish. The Draft RFA public comment period closed on August 25, 2024. After consideration of comments received, CARB released the Cycle 5 Request for Applications on September 3, 2024, which outlines grant application instructions and scoring criteria.