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F23AS00461-Highlands Conservation Act Grant Program - Base Funding

Award ceiling
$25,000 – $1,462,500
Closes
Nov 30, 2023
Last verified
2026-11-01

Awards $25,000 – $1,462,500 per recipient for state governments, closing Nov 30, 2023.

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F23AS00461-Highlands Conservation Act Grant Program - Base Funding awards $25,000 – $1,462,500 per recipient, open to state governments in CT, NJ, NY, PA, closing Nov 30, 2023.

Record fields
Program pool (total)
$5,850,000
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project)
$1,462,500
Award floor
$25,000
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Nov 30, 2023
Deadline type
Fixed date
Opens
Jul 28, 2023
Status
Closed
Eligible entities
State governments
Geography
CT · NJ · NY · PA
Matching funds
Yes
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Application effort
Not confirmed
Use of funds
land conservation · land acquisition from willing sellers · protecting resources of high conservation value
Currency
USD

How much money is available?

Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.

Program pool (total)Across all awards this cycle
$5,850,000
Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
$1,462,500

Who can apply?

level
federal
Derived from the source that published this record
entity
State governments
Source field: entity types
state
CT, NJ, NY, PA
Source field: states
industry
Environment & Water
Source field: industries
use
land acquisition from willing sellers, land conservation, protecting resources of high conservation value
Source field: use of funds
size limit

Not confirmed

Source field: applicant size limit
clause text

Only the Lead State Agency (or Agencies), as determined by the Governor of each Highlands State, may be the applicant for funding under the Highlands Conservation Act Grant Program. If the Governor assigns multiple Lead Agencies, those…

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When does it close?

Nov 30, 2023ClosedDeadline type Fixed date

What can the money be used for?

3 categorysThe source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
land conservationland acquisition from willing sellersprotecting resources of high conservation value

These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.

How hard is the application?

1 fieldEffort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
Application effort
Not confirmed
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Matching funds
Yes

What comparable notices state

71 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.

Among open records stored under Environment & Water, 71 of 192 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:

  • 25th percentile$225,000
  • Median$1,000,000
  • 75th percentile$2,000,000

A statistical estimate, not a prediction. It describes what a set of notices has published in this catalogue on the day you read it, and says nothing about what this programme will award. Records stating no ceiling are excluded rather than counted as zero, and the programme pool — what a funder has across every applicant — is a different column and is never mixed in.

Common questions

7 questionsEvery answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
How much can one applicant receive?
$25,000 – $1,462,500 per recipient.
How much funding is available in total?
$5,850,000 across the whole programme. This is the total the funder has allocated, not an amount any single applicant can receive.
When is the application deadline?
Nov 30, 2023.
Who is eligible to apply?
State governments.
Which locations are eligible?
CT, NJ, NY, PA.
What can the funding be used for?
land conservation, land acquisition from willing sellers, protecting resources of high conservation value, as classified by the source.
Is matching funding required?
Yes. This programme requires matching funds.

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Provenance
Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-11-01
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-09-20

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