Project Acceleration Notes and Credit Enhancement Alternatives

Awards $0 – $1,000,000 per recipient for nonprofit, public agency, closing Not stated.

In one sentence

Project Acceleration Notes and Credit Enhancement Alternatives awards $0 – $1,000,000 per recipient, open to nonprofit, public agency.

Record fields
Program pool (total)
$8,000,000
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project)
$1,000,000
Estimated amount per award ranges from $0 – $1,000,000. Total estimated available funding is $8,000,000. Expected number of awards is dependent.
Award floor
$0
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Not stated
Deadline type
unknown
Opens
Not stated
Status
Open
Eligible entities
Nonprofit · Public Agency
Geography
Not stated
Matching funds
No
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Application effort
Not confirmed
Currency
USD

How much money is available?

Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.

Program pool (total)Across all awards this cycle
$8,000,000
Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
$1,000,000

Source wording: “Estimated amount per award ranges from $0 – $1,000,000. Total estimated available funding is $8,000,000. Expected number of awards is dependent.

Who can apply?

entity

Nonprofit, Public Agency

Source field: entity types
industry

Education

Source field: industries
use

Education

Source field: use of funds
size limit

Not stated

Source field: applicant size limit
clause text

The page does not state specific eligibility restrictions beyond entity type (Nonprofit and Public Agency).

We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.

When does it close?

Not statedunknown deadline

Expected award announcement is Ongoing. Awards of a reservation of funds will expire if the Awardee does not use the awarded funds by closing the financing within six months of Authority approval. Exceptions may be granted by the Authority.

What can the money be used for?

Education

These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.

How hard is the application?

Application effort
Not confirmed
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Matching funds
No
The labelled field explicitly states "Requires Matched Funding?: No"

Who has received this funding?

No award records yet

We hold no prior awards for this programme. That is a gap in what we have connected, not a finding that the programme has never funded anyone — check the official page, which may list past recipients.

Common questions

Every answer below is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.

How much can one applicant receive?
$0 – $1,000,000 per recipient. The source states: “Estimated amount per award ranges from $0 – $1,000,000. Total estimated available funding is $8,000,000. Expected number of awards is dependent.”.
How much funding is available in total?
$8,000,000 across the whole programme. This is the total the funder has allocated, not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Who is eligible to apply?
Nonprofit, Public Agency.
What can the funding be used for?
Education, as classified by the source.
Is matching funding required?
No. The source states that no matching funds are required. The labelled field explicitly states "Requires Matched Funding?: No"
Provenance
Source pagegrants.ca.gov
Retrieved2026-09-01
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-09-01

The official page governs. If the source and this record disagree, the source is correct — programmes change their terms between our checks, so confirm every figure above before you apply.