IRA Grant Tracker 2026: What Was Repealed, What's Frozen, What's Left

When the Inflation Reduction Act passed in August 2022, it was the largest source of federal climate grant funding for nonprofits, tribes, municipalities, and community organizations in modern US history. It authorized roughly $369 billion, of which about $200 billion ran through tax credits and rebates and well over $150 billion was meant to be direct grants, loans, and competitive programs.

Four years later, the grant side looks very different. The July 2025 reconciliation law repealed the largest program outright. EPA terminated another. Roughly $20 billion is frozen while a federal appeals court decides who is right. Understanding which is which is now more valuable than knowing the original $369 billion headline.

This is the honest IRA grants picture as of August 2026.

Important: this post was substantially corrected on August 4, 2026

If you read an earlier version of this tracker, it described Solar for All subaward competitions, GGRF subrecipient programs, and an open REAP solicitation as live opportunities. Those descriptions are no longer accurate, and we were wrong to leave them up as long as we did. The relevant changes happened between mid-2025 and mid-2026 and are set out below with sources.

We would rather tell you a program is gone than send you to spend three weeks on an application for money that no longer exists.

What Changed: Repeals, Terminations, and Litigation

The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund was repealed. The reconciliation law signed July 4, 2025 repealed the GGRF and rescinded its unobligated funds. This was the single largest competitive grant program in the IRA.

Solar for All was terminated. On August 7, 2025, EPA issued a termination memorandum to all 60 recipients, stating it no longer had the legal authority or the appropriation to continue implementation. Twenty-three states sued, arguing the law rescinded only *unobligated* money and that their awards were already locked in. Virginia's Department of Energy filed a breach-of-contract suit in February 2026, and solar nonprofits went to court over the rescinded grants in July 2026. There is currently no federal program paying a homeowner to install panels.

NCIF and CCIA money is frozen, not resolved. Recipients of the $19.97 billion National Clean Investment Fund and Clean Communities Investment Accelerator awards — including Climate United Fund, Coalition for Green Capital, and Power Forward Communities — sued EPA and Citibank in March 2025. A split D.C. Circuit panel vacated the preliminary injunction in September 2025; the court granted rehearing en banc in December 2025 and heard argument February 24, 2026. The funds remain frozen while that plays out.

Environmental & Climate Justice Block Grants were terminated, then partly vindicated, then left in limbo. EPA terminated the ~$2.8B program in February 2025, cancelled all 80 Track I grants in May 2025, and the July 2025 reconciliation law rescinded remaining unobligated funds. EPA's own Inspector General reported in March 2026 that the grants had been awarded properly — finding EPA "adhered to its grant application review and selection requirements." A federal judge ruled the termination unlawful in June 2026 but did not order EPA to reopen the program, and the appropriation expires September 30, 2026.

USDA REAP grants are paused. USDA delayed the FY2026 grant window in June 2025 citing an application backlog, and on March 31, 2026 announced it would issue new regulations for the grant portion. No grant applications are being accepted and there is still no detailed FY2026 grant guidance. REAP guaranteed loan applications remain open year-round through local offices.

IRA Overview: Where the $369B Was Meant to Go

IRA funding breaks into three distinct buckets:

1. Tax Credits and Rebates (~$200B)

The biggest share. These include the expanded Investment Tax Credit and Production Tax Credit for renewable energy, the Clean Vehicle Credit, residential energy credits, and the Advanced Manufacturing Production Credit. Critically for nonprofits and public entities: the IRA created "Direct Pay" (also called Elective Pay), which lets nonprofits, tribes, and local governments receive tax-credit value as a cash payment — unlocking renewable-energy project financing for organizations that historically couldn't use tax credits.

2. Direct Grants and Cooperative Agreements (~$150B+)

This is where grant-seekers find most of the action. Major programs include Solar for All ($7B), Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund ($27B), Climate Pollution Reduction Grants ($5B), Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grants ($3B), and a long list of smaller programs across EPA, DOE, USDA, HUD, DOT, and Interior.

3. Loans and Loan Guarantees (~$20B+)

The DOE Loan Programs Office received a massive expansion under IRA, with new lending authority for innovative technology and tribal energy. USDA also received enhanced rural electric loan authority.

The structure above describes the law as written in 2022. Much of bucket 2 has since been repealed or terminated, as described in the section above. Read the rest of this post as a map of *what became of* each program, not as a list of things to go apply for.

The Big Programs and Where They Stand

Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) — $27B — REPEALED

The single largest competitive grant program in the IRA. Original awards included Climate United Fund ($7B), Coalition for Green Capital ($5B), Power Forward Communities ($2B), five Clean Communities Investment Accelerator recipients ($6B total), and Solar for All ($7B across 60 recipients).

The July 4, 2025 reconciliation law repealed the GGRF and rescinded unobligated funds. The roughly $20 billion in NCIF and CCIA awards is frozen pending the en banc D.C. Circuit decision argued February 24, 2026. Subaward programs that were being planned by the prime recipients did not materialize as open opportunities. Do not build a 2026 funding plan around GGRF flow-through.

Solar for All — $7B — TERMINATED, IN LITIGATION

Terminated by EPA August 7, 2025. Contested by 23 states plus individual recipients and nonprofits. If your organization was a Solar for All subrecipient or was counting on a state program funded by it, your state energy office is the right place to ask what survived — several states are litigating precisely because they consider their awards obligated.

Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grants (incl. Community Change Grants) — ~$2.8B — TERMINATED

Terminated February 2025; all 80 Track I grants cancelled May 2025; remaining unobligated funds rescinded July 2025. EPA's Inspector General found in March 2026 that the awards had been made properly. A judge ruled the termination unlawful in June 2026 without ordering the program reopened. The appropriation expires September 30, 2026, which functionally caps how much can be revived even if litigation succeeds.

Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) — $5B — AWARDED, CLOSED TO NEW APPLICANTS

The one big program that ran its course normally. Phase 1 planning grants are complete — Priority Climate Action Plans published spring 2024, and Comprehensive Climate Action Plans largely complete as of winter 2025/2026. Phase 2 implementation selections were announced July 22, 2024 (general competition) and September 5, 2024 (tribes and territories). Both competitions are closed. Existing awardees have real deadlines: some states must submit a CCAP by end of 2026, and status reports are due August 15, 2027.

What's Actually Still Available in 2026

Shorter than it used to be, and worth reading carefully.

Still open

• REAP guaranteed loans — USDA Rural Development accepts REAP loan guarantee applications year-round through local offices. The *grant* portion is paused; the loan portion is not.
• State energy office programs — State energy offices remain the most reliable channel. Many are still administering funds received before the repeals, and some are running their own state-funded programs. California, for example, approved recipients for its CA-TREC residential energy contractor training program in July 2026, from a solicitation released in November 2025.
• Elective Pay / Direct Pay — Still on the books, with a hard timing catch. See the section below.

Paused, terminated, or closed — do not plan around these

• Solar for All (terminated, litigation)
• GGRF / NCIF / CCIA subawards (repealed; funds frozen)
• Environmental & Climate Justice Block Grants and Community Change Grants (terminated; appropriation expires September 30, 2026)
• CPRG (awarded; both competitions closed)
• USDA REAP grants (paused pending new regulations)

Verify before you invest time

Programs we previously listed that we can no longer confirm as open — EJCPS, Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles, DOE Home Energy Rebates, BIA Tribal Climate Resilience, and the Tribal Energy Loan Guarantee Program. Some of these may still be running. We are not going to assert a status we can't source, so check directly with the administering agency or your state energy office. That is the responsible answer, and it is more useful than a confident list that turns out to be a year out of date.

A general note on state pass-through. Where IRA money reached a state before the federal repeals, it often stayed. Where it was still sitting unobligated at the federal level, it usually did not. When you evaluate any remaining "IRA-funded" opportunity, the question worth asking the administering office is whether the funds are already obligated to them — that single question predicts most of what happens next.

Direct Pay: Still Real, But the Solar and Wind Window Has Closed

One of the most underrated IRA provisions for grant-funded organizations: Elective Pay / Direct Pay.

Historically, tax credits like the Investment Tax Credit (ITC) for solar only benefited tax-paying entities. Nonprofits, tribes, municipalities, and public schools couldn't use them — which meant they needed complex third-party ownership structures to finance clean-energy projects.

IRA changed that. Tax-exempt and governmental entities can now elect to receive the value of the ITC (and certain other IRA tax credits) as a cash payment from the IRS. This effectively turns tax credits into grants for public entities.

Practical implications:

• A school district installing solar can now receive 30%+ of the project cost back from the IRS (40%+ if it meets domestic content and energy community requirements)
• A tribal government or rural co-op can pair Direct Pay with USDA REAP grants to fully finance renewable energy projects
• A municipality or water utility can use Direct Pay to make electrification and clean-energy projects financially viable without private developer partners

The timing catch, and it is a significant one. The 2025 reconciliation law accelerated the deadlines for the clean electricity credits that most nonprofit solar projects rely on. For solar and onshore wind under §48E and §45Y, projects generally needed to begin construction on or before July 4, 2026 to stay in the credit regime, and projects that met that date generally need to be placed in service by December 31, 2027.

That begin-construction date has now passed. In practice:

• If your project began construction (or was properly safe-harbored) on or before July 4, 2026, Direct Pay is very much still worth pursuing — but the placed-in-service clock is running.
• If it did not, the §48E/§45Y path for new solar and wind is materially narrower than this post described earlier in the year.
• Direct Pay as a mechanism still exists and applies to other credit categories, and the registration, documentation, and sequencing requirements are unforgiving regardless.

This is genuinely technical tax territory and the rules changed recently. Confirm your project's specific status with a tax advisor rather than relying on this summary — including us. We are telling you the shape of the deadline, not your eligibility.

Which Organizations Are Winning IRA Grants

A few patterns from three years of IRA awards:

• Coalitions win. Large awards (GGRF, CPRG Phase 2, Solar for All) went to multi-entity coalitions — not individual applicants. If your organization wants a share of the largest programs, find an existing coalition to join rather than starting solo.
• CDFIs took the biggest hit. Community Development Financial Institutions received a disproportionate share of GGRF funding — which is exactly why the freeze hit that sector hardest. If your capital plan assumed a GGRF-funded CDFI partner, that assumption needs re-testing.
• Tribal nations have dedicated set-asides. Most major IRA programs included tribal set-asides. Where those programs survived, the set-asides did; where the program was repealed, they did not.
• Rural organizations have unique programs — but REAP grants, the flagship, are paused. The loan guarantee is the working half right now.
• Obligated beats unobligated. The clearest predictor of whether IRA money survived 2025–2026 was not the program's popularity or its performance reviews. EPA's own Inspector General found the Community Change Grants were awarded properly, and they were terminated anyway. What mattered was whether the funds had already been obligated and moved.

How to Find Climate and Energy Grants Now

The practical strategy has shifted from federal competitions to state and philanthropic channels:

1. Start with your state energy office, not Grants.gov. That is where surviving IRA money and new state-funded programs both sit.
2. Check whether funds are obligated before investing application time in anything described as IRA-funded.
3. Treat foundations as a serious substitute. A meaningful share of climate philanthropy has repositioned around the federal gap.
4. Watch the litigation if you were a recipient — the en banc D.C. Circuit ruling on NCIF/CCIA will determine roughly $20 billion.

GrantSonar tracks climate and clean-energy grants across federal, state, and foundation sources, so you can see what is actually open rather than what a program's original authorizing statute promised.

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The IRA's grant side is much smaller than it was in 2024. That is the honest picture, and organizations that plan against it will do better than those still working from the 2022 headline number.

Related topics: Clean Energy & Climate Grants · Environment Grants · Climate Grants · Energy Grants

_Last updated: August 4, 2026 (substantial correction — see the note near the top). Sources: EPA — Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund · EPA OIG — Solar for All audit, January 2026 · EPA OIG — Community Change Grants awarded properly, March 2026 · Columbia Climate Law — federal funding litigation, July 2026 · Climate United Fund v. Citibank docket · EPA — About CPRG Implementation Grants · USDA Rural Development — REAP. Litigation status changes; verify before acting._