Virginia will help you build. Most owners never hear about it.
42 state, regional, and federal programs that put money, people, and customers behind established Virginia businesses, from a 50% intern wage match to $20,000 equipment grants. Organized by what you actually need, numbered so you can point someone straight to one, and kept honest, including the three big tax credits that quietly died.
What does your business need?
Where you operate
On the clockApr 1 · Enterprise Zone grant filings No.14, No.15Sep 1–Oct 31 · Barge & Rail pre-application No.16Sep 30 · Roanoke BEIP receipts due No.31
Showing 39 of 39 programs★ 14 Best-kept
Recently retired · Do not chase these
Stacks · Sequenced by Harbor
Do not read 42 entries. Run a stack.
Two sequences our team would actually run, in order. Every step links back to its ledger entry.
THE MANUFACTURING STACK
For manufacturers chasing defense and government work.
Harbor buys Virginia businesses and holds them permanently. When you never plan to sell, you care a lot about what helps a company thrive for decades, and we kept finding programs our own portfolio had never heard of. So Harbor and our team collected them here as a public good.
Use it, share it, send it to an owner who is grinding without it. And if we missed one, or a program changed, tell us. We would rather be corrected than polished.
Verify FirstReal, but funding or terms are in flux. Call before you count on it.
ExpiredSunset. Listed so nobody wastes a quarter chasing it.
The fine print
Programs change and terms are set by the agencies, not by us. Confirm current details with the administering agency before you build a plan on any entry.
/ The Virginia Operator's Toolkit