FederalOpenFixed dateFish and Wildlife Service

F25AS00379 Highlands Conservation Act - Base Funding Round

Award ceiling
$25,000 – $2,293,362
Closes
Oct 31, 2026
Last verified
2026-09-07

Awards $25,000 – $2,293,362 per recipient for state governments, closing Oct 31, 2026.

In one sentence

F25AS00379 Highlands Conservation Act - Base Funding Round awards $25,000 – $2,293,362 per recipient, open to state governments in CT, NJ, NY, PA, closing Oct 31, 2026.

Record fields
Program pool (total)
$9,173,450
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project)
$2,293,362
Each State may request up to $2,293,362 in Base funding.
Award floor
$25,000
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Oct 31, 2026
Deadline type
Fixed date
Opens
May 19, 2026
Status
Open
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 · State, County, or Municipal entity acquires land or an interest in land
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
$9,173,450
Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
$2,293,362

Source wording: “Each State may request up to $2,293,362 in Base funding.

Who can apply?

level
Derived from the source that published this record
entity
State governments
Source field: entity types
state
CT, NJ, NY, PA
Source field: states
industry
Source field: industries
use
State, County, or Municipal entity acquires land or an interest in land, 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?

Oct 31, 202654 daysDeadline type Fixed date

What can the money be used for?

2 categorys
The source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
land conservation projectsState, County, or Municipal entity acquires land or an interest in land

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
Yes
Governors may submit proposals for up to 50% of the total cost of land conservation projects

Who has received this funding?

49 awards
Awards on file for this programme, counted rather than modelled.

49 prior awards on file for this programme, largest first. Every row comes from the funder's own award listing; nothing here is estimated.

RecipientStateAmountFiscal year
DEPT OF ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONNot stated$5,832,5382017
NEW YORK STATE OFFICE OF PARKS, RECREATION AND HISTORIC PRESERVATIONNot stated$4,031,5002017
NEW YORK STATE OFFICE OF PARKS, RECREATION AND HISTORIC PRESERVATIONNot stated$3,000,0002021
DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION & NATURAL RESOURCES PENNSYLVANIANot stated$2,710,0002020
DEPT OF ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONNot stated$2,710,0002020
NEW YORK STATE OFFICE OF PARKS, RECREATION AND HISTORIC PRESERVATIONNot stated$2,710,0002020
NEW YORK STATE OFFICE OF PARKS, RECREATION AND HISTORIC PRESERVATIONNot stated$2,670,0002020
NJ HIGHLANDS COUNCILNot stated$2,564,6502020
DEPT OF ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONNot stated$2,425,0002020
DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION & NATURAL RESOURCES PENNSYLVANIANot stated$2,420,0002017
NJ HIGHLANDS COUNCILNot stated$2,420,0002018
DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION & NATURAL RESOURCES PENNSYLVANIANot stated$2,367,8702018
DEPT OF ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONNot stated$2,247,5002024
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION NEW YORKNot stated$1,508,0002020
DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION & NATURAL RESOURCES PENNSYLVANIANot stated$1,462,5002024
DEPT OF ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONNot stated$1,462,5002025
DEPT OF ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONNot stated$1,462,5002024
NEW YORK STATE OFFICE OF PARKS, RECREATION AND HISTORIC PRESERVATIONNot stated$1,462,5002025
DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION & NATURAL RESOURCES PENNSYLVANIANot stated$1,460,0002022
DEPT OF ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONNot stated$1,460,0002022
DEPT OF ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONNot stated$1,460,0002021
NEW YORK STATE OFFICE OF PARKS, RECREATION AND HISTORIC PRESERVATIONNot stated$1,460,0002023
NEW YORK STATE OFFICE OF PARKS, RECREATION AND HISTORIC PRESERVATIONNot stated$1,460,0002022
DEPT OF ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONNot stated$1,400,0002019
NJ HIGHLANDS COUNCILNot stated$1,383,6252025
DEPT OF ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONNot stated$1,172,2502024
DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION & NATURAL RESOURCES PENNSYLVANIANot stated$1,092,0002025
DEPT OF ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONNot stated$1,050,0002025
DEPT OF ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONNot stated$971,2502025
NJ HIGHLANDS COUNCILNot stated$750,0002020
NEW YORK STATE OFFICE OF PARKS, RECREATION AND HISTORIC PRESERVATIONNot stated$749,0002025
DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION & NATURAL RESOURCES PENNSYLVANIANot stated$730,0002025
DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION & NATURAL RESOURCES PENNSYLVANIANot stated$556,1182025
NJ HIGHLANDS COUNCILNot stated$528,0002019
DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION & NATURAL RESOURCES PENNSYLVANIANot stated$200,0002025
NJ HIGHLANDS COUNCILNot stated$187,8002024
DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION & NATURAL RESOURCES PENNSYLVANIANot stated$172,0002023
DEPT OF ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONNot stated$172,0002023
NEW YORK STATE OFFICE OF PARKS, RECREATION AND HISTORIC PRESERVATIONNot stated$172,0002023
NJ HIGHLANDS COUNCILNot stated$172,0002023
NJ HIGHLANDS COUNCILNot stated$97,5002019
DEPT OF ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONNot stated$02025
NEW YORK STATE OFFICE OF PARKS, RECREATION AND HISTORIC PRESERVATIONNot stated$02025
NJ HIGHLANDS COUNCILNot stated$02025
NJ HIGHLANDS COUNCILNot stated$02020
NJ HIGHLANDS COUNCILNot stated$02020
NJ HIGHLANDS COUNCILNot stated$02019
NJ HIGHLANDS COUNCILNot stated$02019
NJ HIGHLANDS COUNCILNot stated$02019

Recipient names as published by the California Grants Portal.

What comparable notices state

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

Among open records stored under Environment & Water, 91 of 212 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:

  • 25th percentile$256,000
  • Median$750,000
  • 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.

Who has won this programme before?

49 awards
Awards under the same assistance listing, not under this notice.

49 federal awards on file under assistance listing 15.667, the programme this notice is published under. These are not awards made under this notice — a listing covers every year the programme runs, and awards under an open notice do not exist yet.

Every award under this programme

Common questions

8 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?
$25,000 – $2,293,362 per recipient. The source states: “Each State may request up to $2,293,362 in Base funding.”.
How much funding is available in total?
$9,173,450 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?
Oct 31, 2026.
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, State, County, or Municipal entity acquires land or an interest in land, as classified by the source.
Is matching funding required?
Yes. This programme requires matching funds. Governors may submit proposals for up to 50% of the total cost of land conservation projects
Has this programme funded anyone before?
49 prior awards are on file for this programme, made by Fish and Wildlife Service. Recipients, amounts and fiscal years are listed on this page.

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Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-09-07
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-09-02

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