F25AS00332 Highlands Conservation Act – Competitive Funding Round
- Award ceiling
- $25,000 – $3,850,000
- Closes
- Oct 31, 2026
- Last verified
- 2026-10-22
Awards $25,000 – $3,850,000 per recipient for state governments, closing Oct 31, 2026.
In one sentence
F25AS00332 Highlands Conservation Act – Competitive Funding Round awards $25,000 – $3,850,000 per recipient, open to state governments in CT, NJ, NY, PA, closing Oct 31, 2026.
- Program pool (total)
- $3,850,000Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Award ceiling (per project)
- $3,850,000
- Award floor
- $25,000
- Typical award
- Not confirmed
- Deadline
- Oct 31, 2026
- Deadline type
- Fixed date
- Opens
- May 19, 2026
- Status
- Closing soon
- 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 · land acquisition from willing sellers
- 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.
Who can apply?
Not confirmed
Source field: applicant size limitOnly 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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What can the money be used for?
2 categorysThe source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
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
- Yesup to 50% of the total cost of land conservation projects
What comparable notices state
71 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.
Among open records stored under Environment & Water, 71 of 193 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:
- 25th percentile$225,000
- 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.
Who has won this programme before?
49 awardsAwards 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.
- $5,832,538DEPT OF ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONCT · FY2017
- $4,031,500NEW YORK STATE OFFICE OF PARKS, RECREATION AND HISTORIC PRESERVATIONNY · FY2017
- $3,000,000NEW YORK STATE OFFICE OF PARKS, RECREATION AND HISTORIC PRESERVATIONNY · FY2021
- $2,710,000DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION & NATURAL RESOURCES PENNSYLVANIAPA · FY2020
- $2,710,000DEPT OF ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONCT · FY2020
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 – $3,850,000 per recipient.
- How much funding is available in total?
- $3,850,000 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?
- 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, land acquisition from willing sellers, 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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