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Program closed April 7, 2025. DCEO states no plans for future funding.
Historical funding: $10,000 - $245,000
Prior eligibility: Businesses owned by Socially and Economically Disadvantaged Individuals (SEDI) with a maximum of 25 full-time permanent employees, or Very Small Businesses (VSBs) with fewer than 10 employees.
OE3 Small Business Capital and Infrastructure Grant Program is sponsored by Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) – Office of Economic Equity & Empowerment (OE3). This program provides funding to small businesses owned by Socially and Economically Disadvantaged Individuals (SEDI) or Very Small Businesses (VSBs) for capital improvement and infrastructure projects.
Illinois's Federal Grant Support Program (Round 2) puts $16.9 million into a single, unglamorous job: paying the non-federal match that keeps competitive applicants out of federal competitions they would otherwise win. Awards run $10,000 to $2 million across roughly 30 recipients, on a rolling basis with no fixed deadline. As federal rules tighten and match requirements harden into eligibility gates, a 'grant to get a grant' is becoming one of the highest-leverage dollars a state can spend. Here is how the program works, who should pursue it, and why match funding is the quiet chokepoint in the 2026 federal landscape.
Read articleA federal judge severed the Digital Equity Act's unconstitutional provision on July 15, Commerce told the court on August 3 it targets a December 2026 application opening, and on August 25 NTIA published the Paperwork Reduction Act notice that starts the clock. Comments close October 26. NTIA estimates 800 applicants for money that drew 700-plus applications seeking $6.5 billion the first time.
Read articleThe OpenAI Foundation is putting $100 million behind Breakthroughs to Follow-Through, a Common Health Coalition initiative aiming to at least double hepatitis C cure rates in eight states and localities within two years. Alabama, Illinois, Louisiana and Massachusetts go first, money flows to local collaboratives and nonprofits, and the grants are deliberately not tied to any one AI vendor. Here is what makes an organization fundable under it.
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