On February 23, 2023, the Biden administration announced $550 million in funding for EPA’s new Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmaking (EJ TCGM) program. The EPA press release states, “The new program advances the Biden-Harris Administration’s whole-of-government commitment to achieving environmental justice by building early, meaningful, and sustained partnerships with communities.” The $550 million originates from President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. The EJ TCGM program will fund up to 11 entities to serve as grantmakers to community-based projects that reduce pollution. The deadline to apply as a grantmaker is May 31, 2023, and applicants must be a community-based nonprofit organization (or a partnership of community-based nonprofit organizations), a partnership between a Tribal Nation and a community-based nonprofit organization, or a partnership between an institution of higher education and a community-based nonprofit organization. EPA intends to award each grantmaker approximately $50 million incrementally over a 3-year period. EPA anticipates grantmakers will begin awarding subgrants to community-based organizations no later than early 2024. The selected grantmakers are instructed to simplify the grant process to allow more funding to organizations that historically have faced barriers to receiving federal grants for addressing environmental harms and risks. EPA states that the EJ TCGM program will further the goals of President Biden’s Justice40 Initiative, which aims to deliver 40% of the overall benefits of certain federal investments to disadvantaged communities that have been overburdened by pollution and historic underinvestment.