The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is seeking applications for the Innovative Programming Grants (IPG).
Donor Name: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR)
State: California
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/02/2025
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The purpose of the IPG is to provide grant funds to non-profit organizations wishing to expand programs they are currently providing in other California state prisons that have demonstrated success and focus on an incarcerated person’s responsibility and restorative justice principles, or to not-for-profit organizations with experience in providing programming in a correctional setting.
Applications will be accepted for all program types, including but not limited to evidence-based, promising practice, and practice-based, as described below.
- Evidence-Based Programs have outcome focused approaches and interventions that have been scientifically tested in controlled studies and proven effective.
- Promising Practice Programs have strategies, activities, or approaches which have supporting research/evaluation, as well as measurable outcomes that have shown the program to be effective at rehabilitating incarcerated persons.
- Practice-Based Programs have positive rehabilitative outcomes for incarcerated persons.
Grant Funding
CDCR receives $4 million per year from the Inmate Welfare Fund for IPGs. The grants will be awarded annually per fiscal year for three (3) terms (a total of $12 million).
Awarding of grants is subject to the following limitations:
- Individual grants are limited to no more than $250,000 annually per program grant (of the $4 million annual grant authority).
- Each applicant organization is limited to no more than $750,000 in cumulative program grants (of the $12 million grant authority).
Grant Period
July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2028
Eligibility Criteria
- Non-Profit Status: Non-profit organizations are eligible to apply for an IPG. Organizations that do not have a non-profit status may operate under a fiscal sponsor with non-profit status for purposes of grant eligibility. If the applicant is a multi-state organization with headquarters in another state, the applicant shall have physical offices in California and currently provide services to California residents.
- Fiscal Sponsor: For the purposes of the grant, individuals or organizations that do not have their own nonprofit status shall operate under a fiscal sponsor with non-profit status. Any program awarded IPG under a fiscal sponsor and chooses to obtain a 501(c)(3) non-profit status during the grant period may terminate the fiscal agent sponsorship by submitting a fiscal agent change request. This process may require four (4) to six (6) months for completion. The fiscal sponsor will remain the sponsor of the grant program and the payee for grant payments until the fiscal sponsor change has been completed.
For more information, visit Innovative Programming Grant.
