Children's Health Grants and Funding Opportunities
EPA issues competitive funding announcements for projects and programs relating to improving children’s health where they live, learn and play.
Investing in America
Learn about current and upcoming funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act.
Open Announcements
Clean School Bus Program
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provides $5 billion over five years for the replacement of existing school buses with clean school buses and zero-emission school buses. The most recent funding opportunity is the 2024 Clean School Bus Rebates, which closes January 9, 2025. Sign up to stay informed.
Inflation Reduction Act Community Change Grants Program
EPA’s new Inflation Reduction Act Community Change Grants program (Community Change Grants) will invest approximately $2 billion dollars in Inflation Reduction Act funds in environmental and climate justice activities to benefit disadvantaged communities through projects that reduce pollution, increase community climate resilience, and build community capacity to respond to environmental and climate justice challenges. The deadline to apply is November 21, 2024.
Voluntary School and Child Care Lead Testing and Reduction Grant Program
A noncompetitive grant program run by the states for testing, and beginning fall 2023, remediation, for lead in drinking water in schools and childcare facilities. Learn more about the lead testing and reduction grant program.
Closed Announcements
See this list for some examples of past children’s health funding opportunities from the EPA Office of Children's Health Protection. The due date for these proposals has passed, and all proposals have been received.
For a complete list of closed EPA grants see Grants.gov.
Children’s Healthy Learning Environments in Low-Income and/or Minority Communities
Closed September 2021 Funding Opportunity Number: EPA-OA-OCHP-21-01
Ten grantees were awarded a total of $2 million for capacity building activities to address disproportionate children’s environmental health harms and risks in school and/or childcare settings in, or that primarily serve, low-income and/or minority communities. Funding Opportunity Number: EPA-OA-OCHP-21-01
Read the press release: EPA Celebrates 25 years of Children's Environmental Health Protection.
Read about the Children’s Healthy Learning Environments in Low-Income and/or Minority Communities Awardees (pdf) .
Children's Healthy Learning Environments
Closed June 2020 Funding Opportunity Number: EPA-OA-OCHP-20-01
Two grantees were awarded a total of $290,000 through the agency’s FY 2020 Children’s Healthy Learning Environments Grant Initiative. These EPA grants support capacity-building to address children’s environmental health in school and childcare settings. Funding Opportunity Number: EPA-OA-OCHP-20-01
Read about the Children’s Healthy Learning Environments Awardees (pdf) .