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CHFFA

Bond Financing Program

🏛 State Treasurer's Office (California)

✓ Free, no account · Source: California Grants Portal · Last verified Sep 5, 2026

⏰ Deadline
Aug 3, 2020 ⚠ passed
💰 Award amount
$2M – $5B
📊 Total program funding
$5B
📍 Scope
State
📨 Letter of Intent
No
💵 Disbursement
Advances & Reimbursement(s)

Can you apply?

This grant was for Local Education Agencies (LEAs) in California serving young children with disabilities or developmental delays. Applicants had to demonstrate fiscal need and capacity to meet RFA requirements. A 33 percent matching fund requirement was mandatory.

Priority was given to low-income and high-need areas. Eligible applicants included individual LEAs and consortiums of community partners with special education and inclusive early learning expertise. The program prioritized areas with high numbers of children birth to five with IFSPs or IEPs.

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Program description

Eligibility General Requirements -Must be a health facility as defined in the Authority’s Act (Section 15432(d) of the California Government Code) -Must be a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation or  public health facility (e.g., district hospital) as defined in the Authority’s Act (Section 15432(e) of the California Government Code) -Must have been in existence for at least three years, providing the same types of services -Must demonstrate evidence of fiscal soundness and the ability to meet the terms of the proposed loan Use of Funds Funds may be used for: -Construction, remodeling, renovation, and/or improvements -Land acquisition -Acquisition of existing health facilities -Equipment and/or furnishings -Refunding of prior debt -Working capital for start-up facilities -Costs of bond issuances, feasibility studies & reimbursement of prior expenditures Loan Terms -Market determined fixed or variable rate interest rate, depending on maturity -No loan maximum -Maximum loan maturity typically 40 years -Loan security provisions and bond covenants that correspond with bond rating Fees -No application fee -Initial fee of 0.05% of the issue amount (maximum $100,000), set fee of $1,000 for smaller health systems and public health facilities -Annual administrative fee of 0.0175% of the bonds outstanding (maximum $150,000), maximum of $500 for small health systems and public health facilities Required Documentation -Three most recent fiscal years of audited financial statements

Who can apply

Eligible applicants

Demographic focus

How to apply

Application links

Key dates & requirements

  • ⚖️ Match required: 33% cost share from non-federal sources. How matching works →
  • Project period: 54 months

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Funding track record

Past applications & awards under this program (California Grants Portal) — how competitive it is.

26
applications
25
awarded
96%
award rate
7
years tracked

By fiscal year

Fiscal yearApplicationsAwardedAward rate
2022-2023 4 3 75%
2021-2022
2024-2025 5 5 100%
2025-2026 5 5 100%
2020-2021
2023-2024 10 10 100%
2026-2027 2 2 100%

Source: California Grants Portal

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