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F24AS00445 Highlands Conservation Act - Competitive Grant Round

Award ceiling
$25,000 – $4,316,457
Closes
Dec 31, 2024
Last verified
2026-09-21

Awards $25,000 – $4,316,457 per recipient for state governments, closing Dec 31, 2024.

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F24AS00445 Highlands Conservation Act - Competitive Grant Round awards $25,000 – $4,316,457 per recipient, open to state governments in CT, NJ, NY, PA, closing Dec 31, 2024.

Record fields
Program pool (total)
$4,316,457
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project)
$4,316,457
Subject to availability of funds through Federal appropriation
Award floor
$25,000
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Dec 31, 2024
Deadline type
Fixed date
Opens
Aug 29, 2024
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 projects · acquires land or an interest in land from a willing seller to conserve resources
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
$4,316,457
Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
$4,316,457

Source wording: “Subject to availability of funds through Federal appropriation”

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
acquires land or an interest in land from a willing seller to conserve resources, land conservation projects
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?

Dec 31, 2024ClosedDeadline type Fixed date

What can the money be used for?

2 categorysThe source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
land conservation projectsacquires land or an interest in land from a willing seller to conserve resources

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?

2 fieldsEffort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
Application effort
Not confirmed
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Matching funds
Yes
up to 50% of the total cost of land conservation projects

What comparable notices state

81 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.

Among open records stored under Environment & Water, 81 of 206 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:

  • 25th percentile$300,000
  • Median$1,000,000
  • 75th percentile$3,000,000

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 – $4,316,457 per recipient. The source states: “Subject to availability of funds through Federal appropriation”.
How much funding is available in total?
$4,316,457 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?
Dec 31, 2024.
Who is eligible to apply?
State governments.
Which locations are eligible?
CT, NJ, NY, PA.
What can the funding be used for?
land conservation projects, acquires land or an interest in land from a willing seller to conserve resources, as classified by the source.
Is matching funding required?
Yes. This programme requires matching funds. up to 50% of the total cost of land conservation projects

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Provenance
Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-09-21
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-09-21

The official page governs. If the source and this record disagree, the source is correct — programmes change their terms between our checks, so confirm every figure above before you apply.