2025 Quick Start Grant Program Cohort Seeking Applicants
October 3, 2025
As of today, October 3, 2025, applications for the Quick Start Grant program are open until October 31, 2025. This round of grant solicitations are designed to build upon TECH Clean California’s past success, by supporting activities that advance or expand successful approaches from past Quick Start Grants or that address key barriers to heat pump market transformation, funding outreach and education to expand its reach, and using the data gathered to answer important policy questions.
From July 2021 to December 2024, the Quick Start Grant program awarded grants to 19 projects to fund targeted, innovative pilots that test approaches to overcoming market barriers to heat pump space and water heating adoption. Today, we are looking for the next cohort of Quick Start Grant recipients including the following funds and project goals:
1) Quick Start Grant Scaling Fund:
Funding available for innovative projects that address key barriers to heat pump deployment by building upon successful innovations from past Quick Start Grants and TECH Clean California pilots. Projects must benefit underserved communities. Eligible applicants include nonprofit, private, and local government organizations. Offering up to $300,000 per project with three to five grants available.
2) Heat Pump Access Grants:
Funding available for outreach and education to underrepresented communities on heat pumps and incentives. Eligible applicants are non-profits or tribes. Offering up to $150,000 per project with three to five grants available.
By testing these transformation approaches, the Quick Start Grant program aims to promote the development and refinement of interventions that can be scaled into statewide solutions.
For more information about the target areas and priorities of these grant funds, as well as instructions on how to apply, please visit techcleanca.com/quick-start-grants.
Funding for this project is part of California Climate Investments, a statewide initiative that puts billions of Cap-and-Trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy, and improving public health and the environment — particularly in disadvantaged communities.