Grants & funding in Kentucky

Tourism Development Act

The Tourism Development Act provides developers of approved new or expanding tourism projects the ability to recover up to 25 percent of the project’s developme...

EB-5 Immigrant Investor

EB-5 is an opportunity for immigrants to invest in the United States in exchange for green card eligibility for themselves and qualifying family members.

Kentucky Investment Fund Act - KIFA Fact Sheet

KIFA provides tax credits to individuals and companies that invest in eligible small businesses through venture capital funds that have been approved by the Ken...

Kentucky Selling Farmer Tax Credit (KSFTC)

The Kentucky Selling Farmer Tax Credit program encourages continued use of agricultural land for farming by granting tax credits to selling farmers who agree to...

Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation

The Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation provides capital access for agricultural diversification and infrastructure projects. Participating Loan Programs...

Kentucky Agricultural Development Fund

The Kentucky Agricultural Development Fund provides incentives for innovative proposals that increase net farm income, stimulates markets for Kentucky agricultu...

Tax Increment Financing (TIF)

Tax Increment Financing (TIF) is an economic development tool to use future gains in taxes to finance the current public infrastructure improvements for develop...

BSSC Fact Sheet

Bluegrass State Skills Corporation (BSSC) Skills Training Investment Credit

Provides credit against Kentucky income tax to existing businesses that sponsor occupational or skills upgrade training programs for the benefit of their employ...

VenCap Kentucky

VenCap Kentucky is designed to increase business’ access to seed, early and expansion stage capital by providing venture capital funding to entrepreneurs who ha...

Angel Investment Tax Credit

The Kentucky Angel Investment Tax Credit offers a credit of up to 40 percent of an investment in Kentucky small businesses. Prior to investment, both the invest...

U.S. Small Business Administration

Federal agency that provides a number of guaranteed loan and other financial assistance programs to small businesses.

The Kentucky Small Business Tax Credit (KSBTC)

The KSBTC program is designed to encourage small business growth and job creation by providing a nonrefundable tax credit to eligible businesses hiring one or m...

Small Business Loan Program

The Small Business Loan Program is designed to help small businesses acquire funding needed to start or grow their small business. A small business must be enga...

Kentucky Small Business Credit Initiative (KSBCI)

Designed to generate jobs and increase the availability of credit by reducing the risks participating lenders assume when making loans to small businesses. Usin...

Incentives for Energy-related Business Act (IEBA)

Companies establishing a cryptocurrency facility in Kentucky may be eligible for incentives through the IEBA program if the facility incurs eligible investment...

Kentucky New Energy Ventures Fund

The Kentucky New Energy Ventures Fund provides seed stage capital to support the development and commercialization of alternative fuel and renewable energy serv...

Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority (KNEDA)

The Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development (CED) welcomes the chance to be a part of the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority. More information is a...

Kentucky Enterprise Fund

The Kentucky Enterprise Fund provides seed-stage capital to Kentucky-based companies that are commercializing a technology-based product or process. The funds e...

Commonwealth Seed Capital, LLC

Commonwealth Seed Capital, LLC, (CSC) is an independent fund that makes debt or equity investments in early-stage Kentucky business entities to facilitate the c...

SBIR-STTR Matching Funds Program

The Cabinet will match, on a competitive basis, Phase 1 and Phase 2 federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (ST...

Kentucky Entertainment Incentive (KEI) Program

Designed to encourage the development of the entertainment and production industry in Kentucky. The incentive provides qualifying applicants the ability to reco...

Kentucky Rural Hospital Loan Program

The Rural Hospital Loan Program offers low-interest loans to assist rural hospitals by providing funding for the purpose of maintaining or upgrading hospital fa...

Kentucky Reinvestment Act (KRA)

Provides tax credits to existing Kentucky companies engaged in service or technology activities, headquarters operations, hospital operations, coal severing and...

Cryptocurrency Projects

Resources and programs applicable to cryptocurrency mining and related projects.