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Grants

Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF)

Status

Open continuously

No deadline — apply whenever you are ready.

Always open
Amount
Not published

A deal-closing cash grant awarded per net new full-time job created, negotiated project by project. Awards have ranged from a few hundred thousand dollars to over $40 million; payment is performance-based against a written agreement with clawbacks.

Funder

Texas Governor's Office of Economic Development and Tourism

public · regional

Deadline: Open all year

Your odds
Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort
moderate

Moderate — a form and supporting documents.

Who can apply

Used only where a single Texas site is competing with an out-of-state option. Requires significant capital investment, above-average wages, local community financial support, and unanimous sign-off from the Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the House. Not suitable for seed-stage start-ups.

How to apply

  1. Contact the Texas Governor's Office of Economic Development and Tourism early, before a site decision is announced
  2. Demonstrate that a competing out-of-state site is under active consideration
  3. Negotiate job creation, wage and capital investment commitments
  4. Obtain unanimous approval from the Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Speaker
  5. Execute the agreement and report annually

What you will need

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work · UEI and SAM.gov registration, explained

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://gov.texas.gov/business/page/texas-enterprise-fund · not human-checked

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: gov.texas.gov

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