WaterSMART Cooperative Watershed Management Program
- Award ceiling
- $50,000 – $300,000
- Closes
- Feb 15, 2028
- Last verified
- 2026-10-16
Awards $50,000 – $300,000 per recipient for others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Feb 15, 2028.
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WaterSMART Cooperative Watershed Management Program awards $50,000 – $300,000 per recipient, open to others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification) in AK, AS, AZ, CA, CO, GU, HI, ID, KS, MP, MT, ND, NE, NM, NV, OK, OR, PR, SD, TX, UT, VI, WA, WY, closing…
- Program pool (total)
- $25,000,000Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Award ceiling (per project)
- $300,000
- Award floor
- $50,000
- Typical award
- Not confirmed
- Deadline
- Feb 15, 2028
- Deadline type
- Fixed date
- Opens
- Jun 10, 2026
- Status
- Open
- Eligible entities
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
- Geography
- AK · AS · AZ · CA · CO · GU · HI · ID · KS · MP · MT · ND · NE · NM · NV · OK · OR · PR · SD · TX · UT · VI · WA · WY
- Matching funds
- No
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Use of funds
- watershed group development · restoration planning · watershed management project planning and design
- 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 limitEligible ApplicantsTo be eligible under this funding opportunity, you must be either an existing watershed group or sponsoring the establishment of a new watershed group as defined in the Cooperative Watershed Management Act (see…
We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.When does it close?
What can the money be used for?
3 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?
1 fieldEffort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Matching funds
- No
Who has received this funding?
152 awardsAwards on file for this programme, counted rather than modelled.
152 prior awards on file for this programme, largest first. Every row comes from the funder's own award listing; nothing here is estimated.
| Recipient | State | Amount | Fiscal year |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOLORES WATER CONSERVANCY DST | Not stated | $99,506 | 2019 |
| BOSTWICK PARK WATER CONSERVANCY | Not stated | $99,500 | 2020 |
| SIERRA INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT | Not stated | $99,312 | 2019 |
| FRIENDS OF THE TETON RIVER, INC. | Not stated | $99,231 | 2020 |
| SONOMA RESOURCE CONSERVATION DISTRICT | Not stated | $99,185 | 2019 |
| KENAI WATERSHED FORUM | Not stated | $99,172 | 2022 |
| CORAL BAY COMMUNITY COUNCIL, INC. | Not stated | $99,155 | 2019 |
| POWELL CLARKS FORK CONSERVATION DISTRICT | Not stated | $99,119 | 2020 |
| SUN RIVER WATERSHED | Not stated | $99,084 | 2020 |
| THE SONORAN INSTITUTE | Not stated | $98,792 | 2022 |
| COALITION FOR THE POUDRE RIVER WATERSHED | Not stated | $98,707 | 2019 |
| LEFTHAND WATERSHED OVERSIGHT GROUP | Not stated | $98,499 | 2020 |
| TROUT UNLIMITED, INC. | Not stated | $98,132 | 2022 |
| FRIENDS OF THE YAMPA INC | Not stated | $97,827 | 2022 |
| ALPINE WATERSHED GROUP, INC. | Not stated | $97,378 | 2019 |
| FRIENDS OF THE VERDE RIVER | Not stated | $97,227 | 2022 |
| SAN JUAN SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT | Not stated | $96,573 | 2019 |
| UPPER MERCED RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL | Not stated | $95,805 | 2022 |
| STATE OF HAWAII DEPARTMENT OF LAND & NATURAL RESOURCES | Not stated | $95,456 | 2022 |
| COCONINO PLATEAU WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP | Not stated | $94,951 | 2018 |
| GRANITE CONSERVATION DISTRICT | Not stated | $93,926 | 2022 |
| TROUT UNLIMITED, INC. | Not stated | $93,474 | 2019 |
| TRUCKEE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL | Not stated | $91,623 | 2019 |
| PURGATOIRE WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP, INC | Not stated | $91,594 | 2019 |
| BLUE RIVER WATERSHED GROUP | Not stated | $90,213 | 2022 |
| BIG HOLE WATERSHED COMMITTEE | Not stated | $89,410 | 2020 |
| SW KS GROUND WATERMGMT DIST 3 | Not stated | $89,260 | 2022 |
| NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $89,237 | 2019 |
| ARAVAIPA WATERSHED CONSERVATION ALLIANCE | Not stated | $88,029 | 2022 |
| PETROLEUM COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT | Not stated | $87,835 | 2020 |
| NEVADA LAND TRUST | Not stated | $87,675 | 2020 |
| RIVERSEDGE WEST | Not stated | $87,257 | 2019 |
| LAKE OF THE ARBUCKLES WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC | Not stated | $85,987 | 2020 |
| CITY OF NORMAN | Not stated | $85,500 | 2020 |
| RIVERSEDGE WEST | Not stated | $84,748 | 2022 |
| COOK INLETKEEPER | Not stated | $82,751 | 2020 |
| BLUE RIVER WATERSHED GROUP | Not stated | $80,653 | 2019 |
| ANIMAS WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP | Not stated | $79,000 | 2019 |
| GRAND RIVER DAM AUTHORITY | Not stated | $73,726 | 2019 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | Not stated | $72,991 | 2020 |
| ANIMAS WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP | Not stated | $70,637 | 2020 |
| NISQUALLY RIVER FOUNDATION | Not stated | $65,294 | 2019 |
| SONOMA RESOURCE CONSERVATION DISTRICT | Not stated | $61,735 | 2022 |
| BIG THOMPSON WATERSHED COALITION | Not stated | $61,262 | 2020 |
| DESCHUTES SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT | Not stated | $56,813 | 2022 |
| ESTES VALLEY WATERSHED COALITION | Not stated | $55,671 | 2022 |
| BARD WATER DISTRICT | Not stated | $49,999 | 2020 |
| NEZ PERCE TRIBE | Not stated | $31,591 | 2020 |
| BOISE RIVER ENHANCEMENT NETWORK, INC | Not stated | $0 | 2018 |
| COUNTY OF MCLEAN | Not stated | $0 | 2023 |
| SAN ISABEL LAND PROTECTION TRUST | Not stated | $0 | 2020 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | Not stated | $0 | 2023 |
Recipient names as published by the California Grants Portal.
What comparable notices state
69 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.
Among open records stored under Environment & Water, 69 of 189 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:
- 25th percentile$200,000
- 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?
152 awardsAwards under the same assistance listing, not under this notice.
152 federal awards on file under assistance listing 15.554, 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.
- $940,000WEST CACHE IRRIGATION COUT · FY2019
- $341,671STATE OF UTAH NATURAL RESOURCESUT · FY2020
- $300,000COUNCIL FOR WATERSHED HEALTHCA · FY2022
- $300,000NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATIONMT · FY2024
- $300,000THE BLACKFOOT CHALLENGE INCMT · FY2024
Common questions
8 questionsEvery answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
- How much can one applicant receive?
- $50,000 – $300,000 per recipient.
- How much funding is available in total?
- $25,000,000 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?
- Feb 15, 2028.
- Who is eligible to apply?
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification).
- Which locations are eligible?
- AK, AS, AZ, CA, CO, GU, HI, ID, KS, MP, MT, ND, NE, NM, NV, OK, OR, PR, SD, TX, UT, VI, WA, WY.
- What can the funding be used for?
- watershed group development, restoration planning, watershed management project planning and design, as classified by the source.
- Is matching funding required?
- No. The source states that no matching funds are required.
- Has this programme funded anyone before?
- 152 prior awards are on file for this programme, made by Bureau of Reclamation. Recipients, amounts and fiscal years are listed on this page.
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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.