Federal grants to Calstart, Inc.
Calstart, Inc. in Pasadena, California received $20.3 million in federal grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, across 8 awards. Its largest program was Public Transportation Innovation, with $10.4 million. In fiscal 2025 more was taken back from its awards than added, a net -$69,046.
From USAspending.gov award records, updated November 7, 2026.
- Grants, FY 2021 to 2025$20.3 million
- Awards8
- Awarded in FY 2025-$69,046
- Largest award$9.0 million
By year
| Fiscal year | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY 2021 | 0 | -$39,514 |
| FY 2022 | 2 | $4.5 million |
| FY 2023 | 3 | $4.4 million |
| FY 2024 | 3 | $11.5 million |
| FY 2025 | 0 | -$69,046 |
Programs that fund Calstart, Inc.
| Program | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Public Transportation Innovation | 2 | $10.4 million |
| Conservation Research and Development | 5 | $9.5 million |
| Technical Assistance and Workforce Development | 1 | $475,954 |
Awarding agencies
| Agency | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Transportation | 3 | $10.8 million |
| Department of Energy | 5 | $9.5 million |
Largest awards
| Award | Program | First action | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application purpose: the purpose of this project is to research and assess the barriers to adoption for zero-emission transit buses. This work will encompass the research demonstration and/or validation of zero-emission adoption-enabling technologies workforce constraints supply chain issues and num | Public Transportation Innovation | July 16, 2024 | $9.0 million |
| New award DE-EE0009867 with calstart, inc. Titled charge to work USA | Conservation Research and Development | March 29, 2022 | $4.0 million |
| Colorado clean mobility strategic planning. The recipient and its partners will engage communities across Colorado that face higher obstacles to zero-emission mobility to develop community-driven plans for multimodal, zero-emission mobility with a path toward their implementation. The recipient will | Conservation Research and Development | August 31, 2023 | $1.8 million |
| The recipient will support a regional effort to expand public investment in electric vehicle (EV) mobility programs and neighborhood-specific infrastructure for disadvantaged and low-income communities in sacramento, California. This project will create three mobility hubs and study their ability to | Conservation Research and Development | August 23, 2024 | $1.5 million |
| Application purpose: the purpose of this project is to research and assess the barriers to adoption for zero-emission transit buses. This work will encompass vehicle and enabling technologies workforce constraints supply chain issues and numerous additional factors that may be hindering the industry | Public Transportation Innovation | January 12, 2023 | $1.4 million |
| East coast commercial zero-emissions vehicle (ZEV) corridor planning partnership. This project will develop a replicable regional commercial zev corridor infrastructure deployment plan to accelerate freight decarbonization by lowering the total cost of freight per mile by guiding the design, locatio | Conservation Research and Development | September 7, 2023 | $1.3 million |
| Zero-emission truck roadshow. The objective of the zero-emission truck roadshow is to familiarize fleet owners and managers in disadvantaged communities with zero-emission trucks by hosting six test drive events across the U.S. At each event, 150 attendees shall experience 10 zero-emission trucks, l | Conservation Research and Development | May 29, 2024 | $998,772 |
| The purpose of this project is to address the research to practice (R2P) gap in transit. Specifically the FTA has expended hundreds of millions of dollars to produce a deep and growing bench of high-quality relevant and timely research which is not being utilized and adopted in the sector at a satis | Technical Assistance and Workforce Development | June 14, 2022 | $475,954 |
Questions people ask
How much federal grant money does Calstart, Inc. get?
$20.3 million in 8 grant awards from fiscal 2021 to 2025, as obligations reported to USAspending.gov.
Which agency gives Calstart, Inc. the most?
The Department of Transportation, with $10.8 million in 3 awards. The Department of Energy follow.
What is Calstart, Inc.'s largest federal grant?
$9.0 million under Public Transportation Innovation, with its first action in the period on July 16, 2024. That counts only the money obligated in fiscal 2021 to 2025.
Which federal programs fund Calstart, Inc.?
Its largest are Public Transportation Innovation, Conservation Research and Development and Technical Assistance and Workforce Development.
Other grant recipients in Pasadena
- California Institute of Technology
- Pasadena Area Community College District
- Pacific Clinics Head Start
- City of Pasadena
- Foothill Family Service
- La Asociacion Nacional Pro Personas Mayores (the National Association for Hispanic Elderly
- Day One
- Pasadena Unified School District
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