FederalOpenFixed dateRural Utilities Service

Solid Waste Management Grant Program

Award ceiling
up to $1,000,000
Closes
Dec 31, 2026
Last verified
2026-10-02

Awards up to $1,000,000 per recipient for others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Dec 31, 2026.

Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Housing, Community & Economic Development

In one sentence

Solid Waste Management Grant Program awards up to $1,000,000 per recipient, open to others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Dec 31, 2026.

Record fields
Program pool (total)
$4,000,000
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project)
$1,000,000
Award floor
Not confirmed
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Dec 31, 2026
Deadline type
Fixed date
Opens
Oct 1, 2026
Status
Open
Eligible entities
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Geography
Not stated
Matching funds
No
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Application effort
Not confirmed
Use of funds
Provide technical assistance and/or training to reduce the solid waste stream through reduction, recycling, and reuse · Provide training to enhance operator skills in maintaining and operating active landfills · Provide technical assistance and/or training for operators of landfills which are closed or will be closed in the near future with the development/implementation of closure plans, future land use plans, safety and maintenance planning, and closure scheduling within permit requirements · Evaluate current landfill conditions to determine the threats to water resources · Pay the expenses associated with providing the technical assistance and/or training
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
$4,000,000
Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
$1,000,000

Who can apply?

level
Derived from the source that published this record
entity
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Source field: entity types
industry
use
Evaluate current landfill conditions to determine the threats to water resources, Pay the expenses associated with providing the technical assistance and/or training, Provide technical assistance and/or training for operators of landfills which are closed or will be closed in the near future with the development/implementation of closure plans, future land use plans, safety and maintenance planning, and closure scheduling within permit requirements, Provide technical assistance and/or training to reduce the solid waste stream through reduction, recycling, and reuse, Provide training to enhance operator skills in maintaining and operating active landfills
Source field: use of funds
size limit

Not confirmed

Source field: applicant size limit
clause text

An organization is eligible to receive a SWM grant if it: a) is a private, non-profit organization that has tax-exempt status from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS). A nonprofit organization is defined as any corporation, trust,…

We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.

When does it close?

Dec 31, 202690 daysDeadline type Fixed date

What can the money be used for?

5 categorys
The source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
Provide technical assistance and/or training to reduce the solid waste stream through reduction, recycling, and reuseProvide training to enhance operator skills in maintaining and operating active landfillsProvide technical assistance and/or training for operators of landfills which are closed or will be closed in the near future with the development/implementation of closure plans, future land use plans, safety and maintenance planning, and closure scheduling within permit requirementsEvaluate current landfill conditions to determine the threats to water resourcesPay the expenses associated with providing the technical assistance and/or training

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 field
Effort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
Application effort
Not confirmed
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Matching funds
No

What comparable notices state

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

Among open records stored under Housing, Community & Economic Development, 26 of 44 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:

  • 25th percentile$137,500
  • Median$908,375
  • 75th percentile$2,750,000

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

6 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?
Up to $1,000,000 per recipient.
How much funding is available in total?
$4,000,000 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?
Dec 31, 2026.
Who is eligible to apply?
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification).
What can the funding be used for?
Provide technical assistance and/or training to reduce the solid waste stream through reduction, recycling, and reuse, Provide training to enhance operator skills in maintaining and operating active landfills, Provide technical assistance and/or training for operators of landfills which are closed or will be closed in the near future with the development/implementation of closure plans, future land use plans, safety and maintenance planning, and closure scheduling within permit requirements, Evaluate current landfill conditions to determine the threats to water resources, Pay the expenses associated with providing the technical assistance and/or training, as classified by the source.
Is matching funding required?
No. The source states that no matching funds are required.

AI summary of the source text

Optional. Every core field on this record is already above, free and complete.

AI summary of the source text

Studio reads this record’s stored eligibility and materials text and breaks it into separate points, each quoting the exact words it came from. It never writes application prose, never guesses at a field the source did not state, and never estimates anyone’s chances.

Included with Studio

Sign in
Also open from Rural Utilities Service
Provenance
Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-10-02
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-10-02

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.