The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania offers an array of economic development grant, tax breaks and loan programs that can be tailored to help expanding and start-up businesses grow.
Grant programs available include:
- Alternative & Clean Energy Program (ACE)
- Ben Franklin Technology Partners
- Flood Mitigation Program (FMP)
- Global Access Program (GAP)
- Guaranteed Free Training Program (GFT-WEDnetPA)
- High Performance Building Program (HPB)
- Industrial Sites Reuse Program (ISRP)
- PA Life Science Greenhouse Initiative
- Pennsylvania First
- Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance (PITA)
Tax break programs include:
- Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC)
- Film Tax Credit
- Historic Preservation Tax Credit (HPTC)
- Job Creation Tax Credit (JCTC)
- Keystone Opportunity Zone (KOZ)
- Neighborhood Assistance, Enterprise Zone Tax Credit (NAP/EZP)
Loan (*Loan Guarantees/**Bonds) programs include:
- Alternative & Clean Energy Program (ACE)*
- Building PA
- Business In Our Sites (BIOS)
- First Industries Fund (FIF)*
- High Performance Building Program (HPB)*
- Industrial Sites Reuse Program (ISR)
- Innovate in PA-Venture Investment Program
- New PA Venture Capital Investment Program
- Machinery & Equipment Loan Fund (MELF)
- Pennsylvania Capital Access Program (PennCAP)*
- Pennsylvania First*
- Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority (PIDA)
- Pennsylvania Economic Development Finance Authority (PEDFA)**
- Pennsylvania Minority Business Development Authority (PMBDA)
- Second Stage Loan Program*
- Small Diverse Business Capital Access Program (SDBCA)
- Tax Increment Financing Guarantee Program*