University Challenge Grants is sponsored by Kansas Department of Commerce. This program provides grant opportunities to Kansas Higher Education institutions for projects that attract, recruit, and aid in the retention of students and help build the state's workforce.

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, Thursday, May 28. Apprenticeship Office Awarded Funding to Expand Youth Opportunities The Kansas Office of Registered Apprenticeship today announced it has been selected as one of 10 states to receive the prestigious Talent Ready funding through CareerWise and the Future Ready Apprenticeship Center. New Round of HEAL Funding to Assist 15 Rural Communities Over $1.

3 million in Historic Economic Asset Lifeline (HEAL) grant funding will support 15 building renovation projects across the state. Sunflower Summer Returns with Free Admission for Kansas Families Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of Commerce David Toland today announced the return of the popular Sunflower Summer program for the 2026 season, and invited Kansas families to explore the state’s wide variety of attractions.

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Taxes, Credits, & Exemptions To The Stars: Kansas Business Awards Corporate & Professional Services Food Processing and Manufacturing Energy & Natural Resources Locals Incentive Reporting Information The Kansas Transparency Database Explorer details all the economic development incentive funding or economic development grant funding that provides more than $50,000. This information is updated twice a year.

Transparency Explorer / University Challenge This program is funded through the American Rescue Plan Act adopted by Congress in 2021. These grants were authorized by the 2022 Session Laws, Chapter 81, Section 28(f) and Section 29(a). University Challenge is a competitive program that awarded public universities funding for economic development.

Program Fiscal Year Recipient Amount Offered Amount Claimed Amount Remaining Address City Zip Code County Signed Agreement First Disbursement Quarterly Report Quarterly Report Project Closed # Yr(s) Benefit Received Status ID Project No Year Bonds Issued City County Developer Name Developer Address Principal 1 Principal 2 Principal 3 Total Bond Amount Sales Tax Captured Amount Remaining By statute (K. S. A.

74-50,227(d)(4)), the names or other personally identifying information of individuals who have made contributions or investments cannot be disclosed. Therefore, no personal information of individuals is included in the database. K.

S. A. 79-50,227(a) states that the Department of Commerce shall collect incentive data from economic development incentive programs that provide more than $50,000 of annual incentives from administering agencies.

Therefore, any award less than $50,000 is not included in the database. No credits have been claimed in the following tax credit programs in TY 2020, TY Abandoned Well Plugging Credit Agritourism Liability Insurance Credit Assistive Technology Contribution Credit Employer Health Insurance Contribution Credit Environmental Compliance Credit Owners Promoting Employment Across Kansas (PEAK) credit.

Purchases from Qualified Vendor Credit Single City Port Authority Credit Swine Facility Improvement Credit Technology Enabled Fiduciary Institutions Credit Temporary Assistance to Families Contribution Tax Credit. In TY 2021 and TY 2022, no credits were claimed in the Alternative Fuel Tax Credit Technology Enabled Fiduciary Financial Credit.

In TY 2021 and TY 2022, less than $50,000 credits were claimed in the: Child Day Care Assistance Credit Friends of Cedar Crest Association Credit. In TY 2020, TY 2021 and TY 2022, less than $50,000 credits were claimed in in the Disabled Access Credit program. In TY 2022, less than $50,000 credits were claimed in the Targeted Employment Attracting Professional Sports to Kansas Fund has not been utilized.

Therefore, Housing Investor Credit total in TY 2022 was $149,000. Additional information can be found from the Kansas Housing Resource Corporation. The address listed is the recipient of the grant and not the actual project.

Broadband grants typically include multiple locations (addresses). The counties that the projects are taking place in are listed in the Rural Opportunities Zones (ROZ): Since the ROZ recipient is an individual, we cannot share a recipient name. The address, city, county and zip code are the corresponding sponsor.

Local jurisdiction data was pulled from a variety of sources.

Those include: Population Data: Kansas Certified Population Certified to the Secretary of State by Division of the Budget on July 1, 2025 Major Employers Data: Kansas Department of Labor, Kansas Labor Market Information Employer Unemployment Rate: Annual Unemployment rate per county provided by the Kansas Department of Labor Local Area Unemployment Statistics All other local data: 2023 American Community Survey 5-year estimates 2019-2023 Business Development : Attracting Powerful Economic Expansion HPIP Industrial Revenue Bonds JCF KAITC KIR KIT Kansas Office of Apprenticeship State Grants PAB PEAK STAR Bonds Community and Tourism : Attraction Development Community Development Block Grants Community Service Tax Credit Program IDA Startup Housing Opportunity Venture Loan Tourism Marketing Department of Insurance : Employee Salary/Small Company Credit Fire Marshal Tax Credit Firefighter Tax Credit Insurance Guaranty Association Credit Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Association Credit Department of Revenue : Abandoned Well Plugging Credit Agritourism Liability Insurance Credit Alternative Fuel Tax Credit Assistive Technology Contribution Credit Aviation and Aerospace Tax Credit Center for Entrepreneurship Credit Child Day Care Assistant Credit Commercial Restoration and Preservation Tax Credit Community College or Technical College Contribution Credit Disabled Access Credit Economic Development Exemptions Eisenhower Foundation Credit Employer Health Insurance Contribution Credit Environmental Compliance Credit Friends of Cedar Crest Association Credit Historic Preservation Credit Low Income Students Scholarship Program Credit Purchases from Qualified Vendor Credit R&D Short Line Railroad Credit Single City Port Authority Credit Swine Facility Improvement Credit Targeted Employment Credit Teacher’s Purchases of School and Classroom Supplies Tax Credit Technology Enabled Fiduciary Institutions Credit Telecommunications Credit International : Kansas Global Business Expansion Program State Trade Expansion Program Kansas Arts Commission : Equipment & Technology General Operating Support Innovative Partnerships Integrated Arts Education Mural & Public Art New & Expanded Works Organizational Development Re-Imagined Spaces SOS (ARPA) SOS (CARES) Visiting Artists Kansas Housing Resource Corporation : Housing Investor Tax Credit Kansas Affordable Housing Tax Credit Kansas Office of Broadband Development : BAG BPAG CERG CPF LINC Office of Economic Recovery : ABODE ALOFT BASE DRAW Eco Devo & Salina Housing Private Colleges Public Broadcasters Regent Universities and Washburn SPRINT TASK University Challenge Office of Rural Prosperity : E-HEAL HEAL ROZ Rural Champions Rural Murals SEED The internet service provider KwiKom was able to match the $950,000 Broadband Acceleration Grant it received from the Kansas Department of Commerce 2024 with $1.

2 million. This will allow the local ISP to connect high-speed broadband to 173 premises in Coffey County that had previously been ignored because it wasn't financially feasible to do so.

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