How much funding is available in total?

$4,950,000 across the whole programme. This is the total the funder has allocated, not an amount any single applicant can receive.

FederalOpenFixed dateForest Service

Community Forest and Open Space Conservation Program

Award ceiling: up to $600,000
Closes: Oct 13, 2026
Last verified: 2026-09-04

Awards up to $600,000 per recipient for city or township governments, native american tribal governments (federally recognized), nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the irs, other than institutions of higher education, closing Oct 13, 2026.

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Community Forest and Open Space Conservation Program awards up to $600,000 per recipient, open to city or township governments, native american tribal governments (federally recognized), nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the irs, other than institutions of higher education, closing Oct 13,…

Record fields

Program pool (total): $4,950,000
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project): $600,000
Award floor: $1
Typical award: Not confirmed
Deadline: Oct 13, 2026
Deadline type: Fixed date
Opens: Aug 12, 2026
Status: Open
Eligible entities: City or township governments · Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) · Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
Geography: Not stated
Matching funds: Not confirmed
Disbursement: Not confirmed
Application effort: Not confirmed
Use of funds: establish community forests through the fee simple acquisition of private forest land · protecting forestland from conversion to non-forest uses · public recreation · environmental and economic benefits · forest-based educational programs
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

$4,950,000

Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive

$600,000

Who can apply?

level

federal

Derived from the source that published this record

entity

City or township governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education

Source field: entity types

industry

Environment & Water

Source field: industries

demographic

Indian Tribes, local governments, qualified conservation non-profit organizations

Source field: demographics

use

environmental and economic benefits, establish community forests through the fee simple acquisition of private forest land, forest-based educational programs, protecting forestland from conversion to non-forest uses, public recreation

Source field: use of funds

size limit

Not confirmed

Source field: applicant size limit

clause text

Eligible local governments are any municipal government, county government, or other local government with jurisdiction over local land use decisions. Eligible Indian Tribes are federally recognized Indian tribes and Alaska Native Corporations. Qualified nonprofit organizations eligible for this opportunity are organizations that are consistent with Section 170(h)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and operates in accordance with one or more of the conservation purposes.

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When does it close?

Oct 13, 202636 daysDeadline type Fixed date

All applications must be received by State Foresters or Tribal governments by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on Tuesday, October 13, 2026.

What can the money be used for?

5 categorysThe source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.

establish community forests through the fee simple acquisition of private forest landprotecting forestland from conversion to non-forest usespublic recreationenvironmental and economic benefitsforest-based educational programs

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.

What comparable notices state

91 recordsStated 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.

Common questions

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How much can one applicant receive?: Up to $600,000 per recipient.
How much funding is available in total?: $4,950,000 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 13, 2026. All applications must be received by State Foresters or Tribal governments by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on Tuesday, October 13, 2026.
Who is eligible to apply?: City or township governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.
What can the funding be used for?: establish community forests through the fee simple acquisition of private forest land, protecting forestland from conversion to non-forest uses, public recreation, environmental and economic benefits, forest-based educational programs, as classified by the source.

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Provenance

Source pagegrants.gov

Retrieved2026-09-04

MethodAutomated check

First seen2026-09-03

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