Recycling Market Development Zone Revolving Loan Program
🏛 Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (California)
✓ Free, no account · Source: California Grants Portal · Last verified Jul 8, 2026
Can you apply?
This grant is for organizations responding to homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic in California. Funding flowed through Continuums of Care (COCs) to eligible organizations in designated service areas across the state. Activities include coronavirus prevention and response for people experiencing homelessness, plus emergency homeless assistance and prevention services.
Eligible recipients typically included nonprofits, government agencies, and faith-based organizations with existing homeless service capacity. Organizations had to serve within their designated COC service area in California. Awards supported rapid deployment of emergency services during the pandemic.
The program prioritized coronavirus-specific activities and services addressing economic impacts of the pandemic on homeless populations. Multi-year funding was possible for organizations demonstrating capacity and need.
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Program description
The Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) administers a Recycling Market Development Zone Loan Program to encourage California-based recycling businesses located within California financing businesses that prevent, reduce, or recycle recovered waste materials through value-added processing or manufacturing. The purpose and importance of the RMDZ Program is set forth in Section 42001 of the California Public Resources Code: “The purpose of this chapter [is] to stimulate the use of postconsumer waste materials and secondary waste materials generated in California as raw materials used as feedstock by private business, industry, and commerce.”
Who can apply
Eligible applicants
- 501(c)(3) Public Charity
- City / Municipal Government
- Faith-based Organization
- Individuals
- Nonprofits
- Public Authority
- Small Business (SBA-defined)
- Tribal Nation
Demographic focus
How to apply
Application links
Program contact
- 📧 loans@calrecycle.ca.gov
- 📞 1-916-341-6199
Funding track record
Past applications & awards under this program (California Grants Portal) — how competitive it is.
By fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Applications | Awarded | Award rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 8 | 5 | 63% |
| 2021-2022 | 8 | 4 | 50% |
| 2022-2023 | 10 | 6 | 60% |
| 2023-2024 | 3 | 3 | 100% |
| 2024-2025 | 5 | 2 | 40% |
Source: California Grants Portal
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