Step 01 · Project truth
The right project description matters more than a long list of programs. Begin with the actual site, the actual constraint, the actual decision owners, and the outcome the community or institution needs.
Ownership, site control, and applicant structure shape every credible funding and delivery path.
Efficiency, resilience, solar, storage, facility modernization, workforce, and load growth begin with different evidence.
A usable baseline includes facility condition, energy data, operations, land, and the people who must make decisions.
A clear campus, community, public-service, or economic-development outcome makes the project understandable to stakeholders.
Step 02 · Path finder
A credible path depends on organization type, place, ownership, project facts, and timing. These official resources are starting points, not determinations.
Clean-energy credit path
Tax-exempt entities, governments, tribes, rural electric cooperatives, and qualifying taxpayers
Explore elective pay or transferability only after reviewing ownership, qualifying property, registration, timing, and recordkeeping.
Official source: IRS — Elective Pay and Transferability ↗Texas public-facility energy path
Public colleges, school districts, cities, counties, and other eligible public facilities in Texas
Explore savings-based energy retrofit financing after an energy assessment and current fund-availability review.
Official source: Texas SECO — LoanSTAR ↗Rural community facility path
Rural public bodies, community-based nonprofits, and Federally Recognized Tribes
Explore essential-facility support after confirming rural status, applicant structure, project feasibility, and state-office intake requirements.
Official source: USDA — Community Facilities ↗Regional infrastructure path
Cities, counties, higher education, economic-development districts, tribes, and eligible nonprofits
Explore public-works support where an infrastructure project has a documented regional economic-development case.
Official source: EDA — Public Works ↗Official source review date: August 18, 2026. Funding notices, eligibility, deadlines, credit rules, and program availability may change; users must confirm current terms directly with the applicable program or professional project-side reviewer.
Step 03 · Funding Readiness Card
A useful readiness conversation should identify what is known, what is missing, which sources are worth reviewing, and what should happen next. It should not manufacture certainty.
The organization and project may be directionally consistent with a pathway. Official confirmation is still required.
The idea may be viable, but key site, ownership, energy, or decision facts are incomplete.
A public body, nonprofit, rural entity, developer, or another party may need to lead or participate.
The next step is clarifying the project—not chasing an opportunity that does not yet fit.
Interactive · Funding Readiness Check
Answer four quick questions about your organization, project, site, and evidence. You will receive a readiness summary with suggested next actions — not a funding determination.
Question 01 of 04
Step 04 · Guided readiness
LGAI can help the right stakeholders clarify the project, test assumptions, identify requirements, and preserve the decision record as the project changes.
See the LGAI journeyClarify the project, stakeholders, evidence, and paths worth exploring.
Establish the site, power, resilience, workforce, and governance baseline.
Test supplier-neutral options before committing to a product or delivery structure.
Maintain assumptions, sources, requirements, decisions, and next actions as the project evolves.
Begin with the facts