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2026 Community Wood Energy and Wood Innovation Program

Award ceiling
$10,000 – $1,000,000
Closes
Apr 22, 2026
Last verified
2026-09-30

Awards $10,000 – $1,000,000 per recipient for others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Apr 22, 2026.

Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Environment & Water

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2026 Community Wood Energy and Wood Innovation Program awards $10,000 – $1,000,000 per recipient, open to others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Apr 22, 2026.

Record fields
Program pool (total)
Not stated
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project)
$1,000,000
maximum of $1.5 million (for up to 50% of total capital costs) for a proposal that warrants special consideration, especially for projects located in areas of high unemployment
Award floor
$10,000
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Apr 22, 2026
Deadline type
Fixed date
Opens
Feb 18, 2026
Status
Closed
Eligible entities
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Geography
Not stated
Matching funds
No
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Application effort
Not confirmed
Use of funds
Install a thermally led community wood energy system · Purchase and install manufacturing equipment at a mass timber production facility · Expand a sawmill to add higher value production lines · Purchase and install equipment at a new facility to produce biofuels from forest residues
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
Not stated
Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
$1,000,000

Source wording: “maximum of $1.5 million (for up to 50% of total capital costs) for a proposal that warrants special consideration, especially for projects located in areas of high unemployment”

Who can apply?

level
Derived from the source that published this record
entity
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Source field: entity types
industry
Source field: industries
use
Expand a sawmill to add higher value production lines, Install a thermally led community wood energy system, Purchase and install equipment at a new facility to produce biofuels from forest residues, Purchase and install manufacturing equipment at a mass timber production facility
Source field: use of funds
size limit

Not confirmed

Source field: applicant size limit
clause text

Eligible applicants are non-profits; local, state, and tribal governments; businesses, companies, corporations (for profit); institutions of higher education; and special purpose districts (public utility districts, fire districts,…

We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.

When does it close?

Apr 22, 2026ClosedDeadline type Fixed date

What can the money be used for?

4 categorys
The source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
Install a thermally led community wood energy systemPurchase and install manufacturing equipment at a mass timber production facilityExpand a sawmill to add higher value production linesPurchase and install equipment at a new facility to produce biofuels from forest residues

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 fields
Effort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
Application effort
Not confirmed
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Matching funds
No
Matching funds are not required; however, leveraging is required

What comparable notices state

79 records
Stated ceilings on open records in the same industry.

Among open records stored under Environment & Water, 79 of 204 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:

  • 25th percentile$275,000
  • Median$1,000,000
  • 75th percentile$4,000,000

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

5 questions
Every answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
How much can one applicant receive?
$10,000 – $1,000,000 per recipient. The source states: “maximum of $1.5 million (for up to 50% of total capital costs) for a proposal that warrants special consideration, especially for projects located in areas of high unemployment”.
When is the application deadline?
Apr 22, 2026.
Who is eligible to apply?
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification).
What can the funding be used for?
Install a thermally led community wood energy system, Purchase and install manufacturing equipment at a mass timber production facility, Expand a sawmill to add higher value production lines, Purchase and install equipment at a new facility to produce biofuels from forest residues, as classified by the source.
Is matching funding required?
No. The source states that no matching funds are required. Matching funds are not required; however, leveraging is required

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Provenance
Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-09-30
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-09-30

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.