Small Business Grants in Washington

Open on paper, and the paper is eighteen months old. Commerce calls this an open, rolling application. It runs until all the money is spoken for. The state funding portal still marks it Active. But the programme page has not moved since April 2025, and no awards have been posted. Businesses can apply. So can cities, counties, nonprofits, state agencies and tribes. No award range is published anywhere, so treat any figure you see elsewhere as invented. It pays for planning, design and building of clean energy projects. That is capital money, not general small business money. Ask whether funds are left before you spend a week on it.

Cash back for a Washington exporter. The part to plan for is the quarter you carry yourself. A voucher covers at most 75 percent of your costs, so a 25 percent cash match is built in. You can claim three vouchers in a federal award year, worth up to $10,000. Commerce puts that year at June 30, 2026 to September 29, 2027. You must be an SBA defined small business. You also need a Washington Statewide Vendor Number before the state can pay you. One warning about the agency's own site. Its small business loans hub still caps these vouchers at $5,000. The programme page is the current one.

Open again, and it is the largest state pot on this page. Commerce is taking pre-applications for a $12.8 million round. A pre-application is optional, but it gives you an early start and helps shape the final application. Full application dates are not posted yet. The scope is narrow. Your project has to sit at or beside a working Washington dairy, and you must be licensed to do business in the state. The last round paid out in April 2026, more than $13.8 million to seven projects. Awards ran from $650,000 to $4.65 million, six of the seven winners were companies, and a 15 percent match was required.

If you own the building you trade from, this is the most patient money on the page. The Tier 2 Early Adopter Incentive opened on July 1, 2025 for buildings of 20,000 to 50,001 square feet. Multifamily buildings over 20,000 square feet count too. The state set aside $150 million. Commerce approves your compliance and incentive application through the Clean Buildings Portal, and your utility pays you. It is first come, first served, so it depends on your utility taking part. Utilities with more than 25,000 customers must take part, and smaller ones may opt in. You will need to give your utility a signed W9 before it can pay. Applications are due by July 1, 2027.

A business cannot apply for this. CERB pays local governments and federally recognised tribes to build public infrastructure. A private company can only sit behind a public applicant, as the committed private partner. The money is a mix of low interest loans and grants. Planning awards are usually grants. Infrastructure awards are mostly loans. Awards run through 2026 on a board meeting cycle, and each meeting has its own posted application date.