Apply for A Grant

2024 Grant Cycle

Our 2024 grant cycle is now closed. Grant applications were accepted from March 1 through September 1, 2024.

Please check back in early 2025.

Eligibility

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

To be eligible for strategic grants, you must meet all of 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 (climate change & environmental stewardship, clean energy & technology careers, or social justice) and one focal point.
• Have a public commitment and mission that supports the specific priority area.
• 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 served and demonstrates a high level of community input into the project/program.

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

Requirements for Social Justice Applications

• The organization serves a disadvantaged or marginalized community.
• The mission of the organization is justice-based – Dedicated to addressing systemic inequities through systems change approaches or strategies.
• Program must align with at least one of the social justice sub-focus areas (human rights & democracy, economic empowerment & opportunity, or community resilience).
• Staff, board, and volunteer base is primarily comprised of members that reflect the community served.
• Demonstrated understanding of policy, advocacy, or community organizing related to social justice and the communities they serve.

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

2024 Social Justice Grants Webinar

Learn more about our grantmaking process. Attention: the RFP submission deadline is May 10, 2024, at 5 p.m. ET