Coastal Conservancy Grants
- Award ceiling
- $200,000 – $5,000,000
- Closes
- Rolling — no fixed deadline
- Last verified
- 2026-10-16
Awards $200,000 – $5,000,000 per recipient for nonprofit, public agency, tribal government, accepting applications on a rolling basis.
NonprofitPublic AgencyTribal GovernmentCAAgricultureDisadvantaged CommunitiesDisaster Prevention & ReliefEnvironment & WaterHousing, Community & Economic DevelopmentParks & Recreation
In one sentence
Coastal Conservancy Grants awards $200,000 – $5,000,000 per recipient, open to nonprofit, public agency, tribal government in CA, accepting applications on a rolling basis.
Record fields
- Program pool (total)
- Not confirmedTotal across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Award ceiling (per project)
- $5,000,000There are no maximum or minimum grant amounts for this funding; however, it is anticipated that most grants will be between $200,000 and $5,000,000.
- Award floor
- $200,000
- Typical award
- Not confirmed
- Deadline
- Rolling — no fixed deadline
- Deadline type
- Rolling
- Opens
- Not stated
- Status
- Open
- Eligible entities
- Nonprofit · Public Agency · Tribal Government
- Geography
- CA
- Matching funds
- No
- Disbursement
- Reimbursement
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Use of funds
- Agriculture · Disadvantaged Communities · Disaster Prevention & Relief · Environment & Water · Housing, Community and Economic Development · Parks & Recreation
- 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
Not statedAward ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
$5,000,000Source wording: “There are no maximum or minimum grant amounts for this funding; however, it is anticipated that most grants will be between $200,000 and $5,000,000.”
Who can apply?
level
Derived from the source that published this record
entity
Nonprofit, Public Agency, Tribal Government
Source field: entity typesstate
Source field: states
industry
use
Agriculture, Disadvantaged Communities, Disaster Prevention & Relief, Environment & Water, Housing, Community and Economic Development, Parks & Recreation
Source field: use of fundssize limit
Not stated
Source field: applicant size limitclause text
Not stated
We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.When does it close?
No fixed deadlineRollingDeadline type Rolling
What can the money be used for?
6 categorysThe source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
AgricultureDisadvantaged CommunitiesDisaster Prevention & ReliefEnvironment & WaterHousing, Community and Economic DevelopmentParks & Recreation
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
- ReimbursementRecipients spend first and are reimbursed. Plan cash flow accordingly.
- Matching funds
- No
Who has received this funding?
617 awardsAwards on file for this programme, counted rather than modelled.
617 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alameda County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, et al | Not stated | $51,213,643 | 2020-2021 |
| TNC | Not stated | $36,270,551 | 2023-2024 |
| East Bay Regional Park District, Yovino-Young, Inc. | Not stated | $36,007,500 | 2024-2025 |
| The Nature Conservancy | Not stated | $35,337,092 | 2024-2025 |
| The Nature Conservancy | Not stated | $31,852,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Southwest Wetlands Interpretive Association | Not stated | $30,000,000 | 2023-2024 |
| California Wildlife Foundation, City of San Jose, Ducks Unlimited, Inc., H.T. Harvey and Associates, San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory, Santa Clara Valley Water District | Not stated | $27,618,937 | 2020-2021 |
| California Wildlife Foundation, City of San Jose, Ducks Unlimited, Inc., H.T. Harvey and Associates, San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory, Santa Clara Valley Water District | Not stated | $27,548,937 | 2024-2025 |
| California Invasive Plant Council, Olofson Environmental Inc. | Not stated | $27,099,538 | 2020-2021 |
| Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District | Not stated | $21,886,700 | 2024-2025 |
| U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Not stated | $20,000,000 | 2022-2023 |
| City of San Buenaventura | Not stated | $17,785,646 | 2025-2026 |
| California Trout, Inc, Yurok Tribe | Not stated | $16,877,510 | 2024-2025 |
| City of San Buenaventura (Ventura) | Not stated | $16,200,000 | 2022-2023 |
| Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District | Not stated | $16,000,000 | 2023-2024 |
| U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Not stated | $13,900,000 | 2025-2026 |
| California Trout, Inc, Save the Redwoods League, Yurok Tribe | Not stated | $12,145,490 | 2024-2025 |
| Elkhorn Slough Foundation | Not stated | $11,943,048 | 2020-2021 |
| California State Coastal Conservancy | Not stated | $11,800,000 | 2024-2025 |
| Ducks Unlimited | Not stated | $10,940,911 | 2022-2023 |
| $8,025,640 to the Yurok Tribe and up to $2,177,555 to California Trout and $470,360 to the Yurok Tribe to plan for the continuation of similar restoration activities upstream | Not stated | $10,673,555 | 2022-2023 |
| The Bay Foundation - Santa Monica | Not stated | $10,260,000 | 2024-2025 |
| Alameda County Flood Control and Water Conservation District | Not stated | $10,000,000 | 2023-2024 |
| County of San Diego | Not stated | $10,000,000 | 2020-2021 |
| Great Redwood Trail Agency | Not stated | $10,000,000 | 2025-2026 |
| County of Monterey | Not stated | $9,250,000 | 2024-2025 |
| Riverside County Regional Park and Open-Space District | Not stated | $9,200,000 | 2024-2025 |
| City of Berkeley | Not stated | $8,990,000 | 2023-2024 |
| City of Santa Cruz | Not stated | $8,659,700 | 2024-2025 |
| County of Sonoma | Not stated | $8,350,000 | 2024-2025 |
| Big Sur Land Trust | Not stated | $8,000,000 | 2024-2025 |
| Land Trust of Santa Cruz County | Not stated | $8,000,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Port of San Francisco | Not stated | $7,800,000 | 2023-2024 |
| California Department of Parks and Recreation, Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains | Not stated | $7,275,650 | 2020-2021 |
| California Department of Parks and Recreation, Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains | Not stated | $7,275,650 | 2024-2025 |
| Bay Conservation and Development Commission, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, State Water Resources Control Board | Not stated | $7,191,423 | 2024-2025 |
| East Bay Regional Park District | Not stated | $7,000,000 | 2022-2023 |
| Land Trust of Napa County | Not stated | $7,000,000 | 2022-2023 |
| City of Santa Cruz | Not stated | $6,893,700 | 2023-2024 |
| County of San Bernardino | Not stated | $6,800,000 | 2023-2024 |
| San Diego Port District | Not stated | $6,600,000 | 2024-2025 |
| Humboldt County Resource Conservation District | Not stated | $6,500,000 | 2024-2025 |
| City of Anaheim | Not stated | $6,200,000 | 2024-2025 |
| Big Sur Land Trust | Not stated | $6,000,000 | 2023-2024 |
| City of Riverside | Not stated | $6,000,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Great Redwood Trail Agency | Not stated | $6,000,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Sonoma County Regional Parks | Not stated | $6,000,000 | 2023-2024 |
| The Nature Conservancy | Not stated | $5,917,914 | 2025-2026 |
| Redwood Community Action Agency | Not stated | $5,552,800 | 2023-2024 |
| Cal Trout | Not stated | $5,500,000 | 2022-2023 |
| SF rec and Parks | Not stated | $5,500,000 | 2023-2024 |
| California Invasive Plant Council | Not stated | $5,400,000 | 2022-2023 |
| City of Richmond, Environmental Science Associates, URS Corporation | Not stated | $5,313,015 | 2020-2021 |
| City of Richmond, Environmental Science Associates, URS Corporation | Not stated | $5,313,015 | 2024-2025 |
| SF Rec and Parks | Not stated | $5,100,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Coastal Quest | Not stated | $5,000,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy | Not stated | $5,000,000 | 2023-2024 |
| TBC | Not stated | $5,000,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Valley Water | Not stated | $5,000,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Tribe, four nonprofit organizations, three resource conservation districts, and the Regents of the University of California | Not stated | $4,983,994 | 2022-2023 |
| Ducks Unlimited, Inc. | Not stated | $4,975,537 | 2020-2021 |
| City of Eureka | Not stated | $4,715,000 | 2020-2021 |
| Los Cerritos Wetlands Authority | Not stated | $4,600,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Hoopa Valley Tribe | Not stated | $4,500,000 | 2022-2023 |
| San Francisco State University | Not stated | $4,351,500 | 2023-2024 |
| Riverside County Regional Park and Open-Space District | Not stated | $4,350,000 | 2024-2025 |
| Riverside County Regional Park and Open-Space District | Not stated | $4,200,000 | 2020-2021 |
| Applied Earthworks, KTU & A, State Lands Commission | Not stated | $4,122,084 | 2020-2021 |
| California Wildlife Foundation, City of San Jose, Ducks Unlimited, Inc., H.T. Harvey and Associates, San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory, Santa Clara Valley Water District | Not stated | $4,122,000 | 2025-2026 |
| San Mateo Resource Conservation District | Not stated | $4,114,532 | 2024-2025 |
| Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy | Not stated | $4,000,000 | 2024-2025 |
| Land Trust of Santa Cruz County | Not stated | $4,000,000 | 2025-2026 |
| The Wildlands Conservancy | Not stated | $3,950,000 | 2023-2024 |
| City of Willits | Not stated | $3,813,000 | 2023-2024 |
| City of Berkeley | Not stated | $3,768,733 | 2024-2025 |
| Southwest Wetlands Interpretive Association, Tijuana Estuary Foundation | Not stated | $3,767,913 | 2025-2026 |
| San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission | Not stated | $3,570,000 | 2022-2023 |
| San Francisco Estuary Institute, Marin and Golden Gate Audubon Societies, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, San Francisco State University, and additional contractors and grantees | Not stated | $3,500,000 | 2022-2023 |
| Maritime Museum Association of San Diego | Not stated | $3,457,000 | 2024-2025 |
| Petaluma River Park Foundation | Not stated | $3,448,400 | 2025-2026 |
| Ducks Unlimited, Inc., Sonoma Land Trust | Not stated | $3,428,460 | 2023-2024 |
| Maritime Museum Association of San Diego | Not stated | $3,411,705 | 2024-2025 |
| Coastside Land Trust | Not stated | $3,377,389 | 2023-2024 |
| Point Reyes Bird Observatory dba Point Blue Conservation Science | Not stated | $3,200,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Southwest Wetlands Interpretive Association | Not stated | $3,192,500 | 2022-2023 |
| Solano Land Trust | Not stated | $3,095,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Sempervirens Fund | Not stated | $3,050,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Sonoma Land Trust | Not stated | $3,050,000 | 2025-2026 |
| City of Berkeley | Not stated | $3,049,000 | 2022-2023 |
| County of San Bernardino | Not stated | $3,000,000 | 2022-2023 |
| East Bay Regional Park District | Not stated | $3,000,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Riverside County Regional Park and Open Space District | Not stated | $3,000,000 | 2022-2023 |
| Trust for Public Land | Not stated | $3,000,000 | 2024-2025 |
| California State Coastal Conservancy | Not stated | $2,963,050 | 2023-2024 |
| Cty of Berkeley | Not stated | $2,960,900 | 2022-2023 |
| City of Santa Ana | Not stated | $2,925,000 | 2025-2026 |
| La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians | Not stated | $2,900,000 | 2025-2026 |
| City of Santa Ana | Not stated | $2,807,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Environmental Science Associates | Not stated | $2,782,410 | 2020-2021 |
| American Canyon Community and Parks Foundation | Not stated | $2,769,000 | 2025-2026 |
Recipient names as published by the California Grants Portal.
What comparable notices state
64 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.
Among open records stored under Agriculture, 64 of 78 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:
- 25th percentile$300,000
- Median$1,000,000
- 75th percentile$2,000,000
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
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?
- $200,000 – $5,000,000 per recipient. The source states: “There are no maximum or minimum grant amounts for this funding; however, it is anticipated that most grants will be between $200,000 and $5,000,000.”.
- When is the application deadline?
- This programme accepts applications on a rolling basis and states no fixed closing date.
- Who is eligible to apply?
- Nonprofit, Public Agency, Tribal Government.
- Which locations are eligible?
- CA.
- What can the funding be used for?
- Agriculture, Disadvantaged Communities, Disaster Prevention & Relief, Environment & Water, Housing, Community and Economic Development, Parks & Recreation, as classified by the source.
- Is matching funding required?
- No. The source states that no matching funds are required.
- Is the money paid up front or reimbursed?
- Reimbursement. Recipients spend first and claim the cost back, so the money has to be found before it is repaid.
- Has this programme funded anyone before?
- 617 prior awards are on file for this programme, made by Coastal Conservancy. Recipients, amounts and fiscal years are listed on this page.
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