WaterSMART Enhancing Water Resources Projects
Awards $50,000 – $3,000,000 per recipient for other legal entity, states, tribes, irrigation districts, nonprofit conservation organizations (in partnership with category a), organizations with water or power delivery authority, state, regional, or local authorities, water districts, watershed groups, closing Sep 8, 2027.
In one sentence
WaterSMART Enhancing Water Resources Projects awards $50,000 – $3,000,000 per recipient, open to other legal entity, states, tribes, irrigation districts, nonprofit conservation organizations (in partnership with category a), organizations with water or power delivery authority, state, regional,…
- Program pool (total)
- $60,000,000Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Award ceiling (per project)
- $3,000,000Expected to fund approximately 30 projects
- Award floor
- $50,000
- Typical award
- Not confirmed
- Deadline
- Sep 8, 2027
- Deadline type
- fixed
- Opens
- May 14, 2026
- Status
- Open
- Eligible entities
- Other Legal Entity · States · Tribes · irrigation districts · nonprofit conservation organizations (in partnership with Category A) · organizations with water or power delivery authority · state, regional, or local authorities · water districts · watershed groups
- Geography
- Alaska · American Samoa · Arizona · California · Colorado · Guam · Hawaii · Idaho · Kansas · Montana · Nebraska · Nevada · New Mexico · North Dakota · Northern Mariana Islands · Oklahoma · Oregon · Puerto Rico · South Dakota · Texas · U.S. Virgin Islands · Utah · Washington · Wyoming
- Matching funds
- Yes
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- 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.
Source wording: “Expected to fund approximately 30 projects”
Who can apply?
Other Legal Entity, States, Tribes, irrigation districts, nonprofit conservation organizations (in partnership with Category A), organizations with water or power delivery authority, state, regional, or local authorities, water districts, watershed groups
Source field: entity typesAlaska, American Samoa, Arizona, California, Colorado, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, Oklahoma, Oregon, Puerto Rico, South Dakota, Texas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Utah, Washington, Wyoming
Source field: statesdisadvantaged communities
Source field: demographicsriver and watershed restoration, water conservation and efficiency projects, water infrastructure improvements
Source field: use of fundsNot stated
Source field: applicant size limitCategory A applicants must be located in Western United States or specified Territories. Category B (nonprofits) must partner with Category A entity. Category C (watershed groups) must be grassroots, non-regulatory entities addressing water availability and quality, capable of promoting sustainable water use, making consensus-based decisions, and representing diverse stakeholders. Ineligible applicants include Federal governmental entities, individuals, and institutes of higher education.
We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.When does it close?
Response date listed
What can the money be used for?
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?
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Matching funds
- YesCost sharing required. Watershed groups eligible for 50-percent cost-shared funding without a Category A partner, but must have a Category A partner for 75-percent Federal funding.
Who has received this funding?
No award records yet
We hold no prior awards for this programme. That is a gap in what we have connected, not a finding that the programme has never funded anyone — check the official page, which may list past recipients.
Common questions
Every answer below is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
- How much can one applicant receive?
- $50,000 – $3,000,000 per recipient. The source states: “Expected to fund approximately 30 projects”.
- How much funding is available in total?
- $60,000,000 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?
- Sep 8, 2027. Response date listed
- Who is eligible to apply?
- Other Legal Entity, States, Tribes, irrigation districts, nonprofit conservation organizations (in partnership with Category A), organizations with water or power delivery authority, state, regional, or local authorities, water districts, watershed groups.
- Which locations are eligible?
- Alaska, American Samoa, Arizona, California, Colorado, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, Oklahoma, Oregon, Puerto Rico, South Dakota, Texas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Utah, Washington, Wyoming.
- What can the funding be used for?
- water conservation and efficiency projects, water infrastructure improvements, river and watershed restoration, as classified by the source.
- Is matching funding required?
- Yes. This programme requires matching funds. Cost sharing required. Watershed groups eligible for 50-percent cost-shared funding without a Category A partner, but must have a Category A partner for 75-percent Federal funding.
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.