Last fiscal year, the City secured 97 grants totaling over $306 million! This is 4% higher than the prior fiscal year and the highest dollar amount ever recorded since the City started publishing an annual grant report. 

These federal, state, regional and private grants help fund a wide variety of City priorities and activities such as economic development, emergency response preparedness, homelessness services, road and bridge repair, public safety and enhancing water reliability. 

This includes:  

• $750,000 to temporarily house families fleeing domestic violence;  
• $2.4 million to resolve homeless encampments in East Village and get the people living there into housing;  
• $2.5 million we secured to finally rebuild roads in Rancho Bernardo damaged by wildfire;  
• $8.5 million in federal and state funds we received for a new Ocean Beach Library;  
• $4 million for improvements to Clay Park in Rolando Village; 
• $3 million for the new Beyer Park in San Ysidro. 

These are just a few examples of how the grants awarded and highlighted in this report are going to help deliver benefits for San Diegans across the city for generations to come. You can find the FY2023 Citywide Grants Report with a full list of projects and services being funded here. 

It’s been a key priority of mine to ensure we’re getting our fair share of resources from all levels of government, and this report shows our success in doing just that.  

We can all be proud of the progress we’ve made on grants that help the City address key issues such as homelessness, our aging infrastructure, and public safety. 

We will continue to aggressively pursue all available funding to create a City that truly serves all San Diegans.