Kansas towns & counties
Grant strategy and application writing for rural bridges, water systems and small-city streets—with no grant-writing fee unless the application is awarded.
Focused on planning grants, Kansas programs and checklist-driven applications that a dedicated solo grant writer can manage well. No sprawling list. No program promised before fit and timing are verified.
Position bridge, roadway and drainage needs as flood, scour and resilience vulnerabilities. Planning awards are 100% federal with no local match, and the planning track does not require a benefit-cost analysis.
Source: FHWA PROTECT program and award records. Next-round timing was not confirmed as of Oct. 6, 2026.
Up to $800,000 for eligible projects. The application is process-heavy but manageable: 25% match, at least 51% low-to-moderate-income beneficiaries, public process and a preliminary engineering report.
Source: Kansas Department of Commerce CDBG program materials.
Professional packaging for county bridge priorities: state forms, county resolution and engineering data. Same-corridor bridges can be evaluated as a coordinated bundle when the facts support it.
Source: Kansas Department of Transportation KLBIP round records. The next round date was not confirmed.
Small, year-round grants for eligible rural water and wastewater communities. SEARCH can fund feasibility, design and technical work that creates the preliminary engineering needed for larger construction funding.
Source: USDA Rural Development SEARCH program materials.
Two straightforward Kansas pathways for street and roadway priorities. Cost Share allows requests up to $1.5 million with a minimum 15% local match; CCLIP is an annual city-street program and does not cover bridges.
Source: Kansas Department of Transportation Cost Share and CCLIP program materials.
A funding sequence
A town does not need to begin with the biggest grant. The strongest route can start with a planning award that pays for the engineering work required by the next application.
Document the failing asset, public impact, eligibility and the engineering information already available.
Use SEARCH or a planning grant to pay for feasibility, preliminary engineering or resilience analysis.
Pair the technical package with the public process, match plan, resolutions and a clear funding narrative.
Use the completed plan and an initial award to strengthen the next CDBG, USDA, KDOT or federal application.
Aligned with the community
No deposit. No upfront grant-writing cost. If the application is not awarded, the community owes no grant-writing fee.
Engineering fluency
The owner of GrantBridge brings many years of engineering construction inspection experience and knows how infrastructure projects move—from early planning through final notice of acceptance.
Common questions
GrantBridge charges no upfront grant-writing fee: a flat fee is due only if the grant is awarded, and nothing is owed if it isn't. Traditional grant writers typically charge flat fees or hourly rates with payment due regardless of outcome — so the community takes no financial risk on the application itself.
No. Kansas CDBG does not reimburse grant-writing costs incurred before an award — the town or county pays for the application up front. That's exactly why a pay-only-if-awarded model matters: if the application isn't funded, the community owes no grant-writing fee.
GrantBridge Infrastructure, based in Topeka and serving all 105 Kansas counties. We write Kansas CDBG water and sewer applications, KDOT Cost Share and CCLIP street applications, KLBIP county bridge applications, federal PROTECT planning grants, and USDA Rural Development predevelopment applications — with an engineer's understanding of what happens after the award.
We’ll identify which need is ready, which program fits, and what information the community needs next. The first conversation costs nothing.
Based in Topeka · serving all 105 Kansas counties