Funding Opportunities for Tacoma Businesses
Take up the Cause
Program Description: Offers credit paydown in collaboration with HomeSight, expansion of housing programs, financial literacy workshops, and community outreach.
Funding Type: Credit paydown.
Areas Served: Spokane.
Contact Person: Chauncey Jones, (509) 768-7422, takeupthecause1@gmail.com.
Website:http://www.takeupthecausenw.org/
HomeSight
Program Description: Provides capital for land acquisition to developers who have completed all pre-development steps in their Field Order 15 program.
Funding Type: Capital for developers, down payment assistance.
Areas Served: Statewide.
Contact Persons:
Uche Okezie, (206) 760-4211, uche@homesightwa.org.
Cavan McCaffrey, (206) 760-4207, cavan@homesightwa.org.
Website:https://www.homesightwa.org/
African American Leadership Forum
Program Description: Offers down payment assistance, earnest money grants, and debt consolidation for homeownership loan approval.
Funding Type: Down payment assistance, grants, debt consolidation.
Areas Served: King and Pierce counties.
Contact Person: Dawn Bennett, (347) 581-8021, msdawnbennett@gmail.com.
Website: https://www.aalfwa.com/
Centro Cultural Mexicano
Program Description: Provides up to 20% equity match, higher down payments, and reduces cost burden by eliminating PMI payments. Offers refinancing options to reduce monthly payments and buy down interest rates.
Funding Type: Down payment/closing cost assistance, refinancing options.
Areas Served: King, Pierce, Snohomish, and other counties as needed.
Contact Person: Shahbaz Yusuf, (425) 215-9890, shahbaz@centroculturalmexicano.org.
Langston
Program Description: Provides microgrants for BIPOC artists, along with mentorship and professional development.
Funding Type: Microgrants.
Areas Served: King County and anyone who can attend at the location in Seattle.
Contact Person: Ebony Arunga, (206) 323-7067, ebony@langstonseattle.org.
Website: https://www.langstonseattle.org/
Lummi Indian Business Council
Program Description: Offers loans, matched savings, and Journey Acquisition Enhancement programs.
Funding Type: Loans, matched savings, Journey Acquisition Enhancement.
Areas Served: Lummi Tribe.
Contact Person: Teresa Taylor, (360) 312-2454, TeresaT@lummi-nsn.gov.
Northwest Native Chamber
Program Description: Provides capital support to entrepreneurs, primarily for down payment assistance, along with one-on-one technical assistance.
Funding Type: Capital support, down payment assistance.
Areas Served: Statewide.
Contact Persons:
Amber Faist, (971) 404-8996, afaist@nwnc.org.
Alyssa Camp, (503) 486-2749, acamp@nwnc.org.
Website: https://nwnc.org/
Rainier Valley Community Development Fund
Program Description: Offers loans for business startups and capacity building, with a portion of these loans being forgivable.
Funding Type: Forgivable loans.
Areas Served: King County.
Contact Person: Paul Pitkin, (206) 618-3761, ppitkin@rvcdf.org.
The City of Tacoma's Community & Economic Development Department invites you to attend one of two Community Reinvestment Project (CRP) Info Sessions to learn about the 2025 CRP grant and loan programs. Register Here: Eventbrite Registration Link
Session 1 - Wednesday, January 29, 2025 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM Tacoma Little Theater, 210 N I St, Tacoma, WA 98403
Session 2 - Tuesday, February 6, 2025 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM The Star Center, 3873 S 66th St, Tacoma, WA 98409
