Innovative Programming Grant (CA)

Innovative Programming Grant (CA)

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: CA Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
Amount: Up to US $750,000
Last Updated: November 24, 2025

Summary

The Innovative Programming Grant (CA) offers $4 million annually to non-profit organizations seeking to expand successful programs in California's correctional facilities. Grants are oriented towards promoting responsibility and restorative justice for incarcerated individuals. Each grant can be up to $250,000 annually, with a cumulative limit of $750,000 for applicants over three years. This initiative supports innovative, insight-based programming that prioritizes rehabilitation and community reintegration.

Overview

Innovative Programming Grant (CA) The Innovative Programming Grant (IPG) provides grant funds to non-profit organizations wishing to expand programs they are currently providing in other California state institutions 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. Innovative programs are insight-oriented with a focus on incarcerated persons responsibility and restorative justice principles. 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).

Eligibility

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