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Apply for A Grant

We invest in community-based organizations who share our vision to combat extreme weather and improve resiliency, support disadvantaged communities, and build green job skills in New York.

Grant Cycle

The grant cycle is now closed for 2025. Check back for updated information in early 2026.

Eligibility

Con Edison will consider funding requests for specific programs and projects within our areas of interest.

To be eligible for strategic grants, your project or program must meet the following criteria:

  • Be a community-based organization; educational institution; or coalition, or alliance, of institutions. This includes environmental justice networks.
  • Your organization must be a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable entity, as described in Section 509(a)(1) or 509(a)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code. In a collective group scenario, a designated 501(c)(3) nonprofit is required as the fiscal agent for funding.
  • Be located in Con Edison’s service territory (New York City and Westchester).
  • Support one of Con Edison’s grant funding priority areas –and mitigation to increases in extreme weather, social justice and community resilience, or clean energy and technology careers – and one focal point.
  • Requests must be for program support. Consideration will be granted for requests focused on capacity building. Generating operating, capital campaigns, capital projects, bricks and mortar, third-party support, and event sponsorships will not be considered.
  • Be able to provide measurable outcomes for communities within Con Edison service territories.
  • Have a strong leadership team that is highly engaged with the communities it serves and demonstrates a high level of community input into the project or program.

Priority will be given to organizations with programs or projects centered in historically marginalized and disadvantaged communities.

Con Edison does not make grants to:

  • Individuals
  • Endowments or endowment campaigns
  • Scholarship funds
  • Other private foundations
  • Debt retirement or to cover past operating deficits
  • Candidates for political office or to influence specific legislation (lobbying)
  • Religious organizations for realizing a doctrinal purpose*
     

Additional Requirements for Social Justice and Community Resilience Applications

  • The organization serves a disadvantaged or marginalized community.
  • The mission of the organization is justice-based – Dedicated to addressing inequities through systems change approaches or strategies.
  • The program must align with at least one of the sub-focus areas
  • The organization must demonstrate an understanding of policy, advocacy, or community organizing.

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*We will consider requests from religious organizations that benefit the overall community without supporting any specific doctrine.
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