The Housing Program Services (HPS) Division provides annual funding to non-profit organizations through a competitive application process.
Donor Name: City of Turlock
State: California
City: Turlock
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/17/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
This Federal funding is made available through the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program. The City of Turlock is a CDBG entitlement jurisdiction funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). All CDBG funds must benefit low to moderate income persons in Turlock.
National Objectives
The City of Turlock’s Consolidated Plan is designed to direct the City’s investment of federal CDBG funds to meet priority needs for housing, community and economic development, and public service. The overall goals of the Consolidated Plan are as follows: to provide decent and affordable housing, to provide a suitable living environment, or to expand economic opportunities. As an applying agency your project must cover one or more of the following needs and or objectives as outlined in the Consolidated Plan for the City of Turlock. Housing and Community Development Goals (Reference: 2020-2025 Consolidated Plan)
- Increase and improve supply of affordable housing (not usually eligible under Public Service activities)
- Work to end and prevent homelessness. This goal will support organizations providing shelter and services for those experiencing homelessness; this goal may include emergency shelter, transitional, permanent, supportive, and rapid rehousing services.
- Homeless services -areas of need include: Food, emergency shelter, housing counseling, homeless support services, domestic violence prevention and intervention, individual, family, group counseling, crisis intervention, and drug and alcohol abuse services.
- Improve infrastructure and public facilities. (not usually eligible under Public Service activities)
- Provide public services (Addressing basic needs as well as provide important services to the community.)
- Support services that accompany permanent housing for people who are chronically homeless individuals and families, families with children, veterans and their families, and unaccompanied youth.
- Support services to assist target income individuals and families, including those with special needs. Special needs include the elderly, frail elderly, persons with disabilities (mental, physical, developmental, persons with HIV/AIDS and their families), persons with alcohol or other drug addiction, and victims of domestic violence.
- Employment training, job skills, mentoring, and computer technology.
- Senior, Youth, and Handicapped Services- areas of need include: food, physical fitness/wellness, activities/alternatives to serve at risk youth including after school programs, parenting programs, safety services, family and senior support services, handicapped assistive equipment technology, health services, crime awareness, protective services, transportation services, and child care services.
- Fair housing services.
- Community emergency responses (not usually eligible under Public Service activities)
Funding Information
- Approximately $100,000 is being allocated citywide to fund Public Service Programs.
- Application funding requests may not exceed $20,000 per project.
Grant Period
July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2027.
Eligible Expenses
- CDBG funds may be used to pay for direct expenses of labor, supplies, and material as well as to operate and/or maintain the portion of a facility in which the public service is located. This includes the lease of a facility, lease of equipment (equipment purchase is not an eligible expense), and lease of other property needed for the public service. Costs incurred for telephone services, local and long-distance telephone calls, postage, messenger, electronic or computer transmittal services and the like are allowable. Expenses are only covered for the grant fiscal year (July 2025-June 2026). For example, if an invoice/expense covered May through July 2026 (going outside the fiscal year into July) it would have to be pro-rated to cover only the expenses for May and June. Expenses need to be pro-rated for the activity being reimbursed.
- Salaries: Salary and fringe benefits (fringe is limited to 20% of total salary costs) in the form of regular compensation paid to employees during periods of authorized absences from the job, such as vacation leave, sick leave, military leave, and the like, are allowable, provided such costs are absorbed by all agency activities in proportion to the relative amount of time or effort actually devoted to each. Time sheets will be required to document expenses for staff and allowable time should be adjusted by the staff time allocated on the program as listed in the application. Direct staff time worked for project is verified through time sheet documentation (indirect staff time like general administration is not eligible). Paid Time-off (PTO), Overtime, and Bonuses are NOT allowable expenses.
Eligibility Criteria
- Non-profit: Applicant agencies must be a public or private non-profit agency. Agencies must be established, operating agencies as evidenced through documentation required in the application. Exhibits to show tax exempt status are required.
- Faith based Agencies: Faith based agencies are eligible to apply. HUD issued a final rule amendment allowing faith-based agencies to compete for CDBG funding on the same basis as other non-profits, however, CDBG funds cannot be used to support worship or religious instruction. Religious activities must be offered separately from the CDBG supported activity. Faith based agencies may not use direct CDBG funds to support inherently religious activities such as worship or religious instruction. Faith-based agencies that participate in the CDBG program shall not discriminate against a program beneficiary on the basis of religion or religious belief.
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