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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Sur Land Trust | Not stated | $2,750,000 | 2023-2024 |
| City of Imperial Beach | Not stated | $2,700,000 | 2025-2026 |
| City of Santa Barbara | Not stated | $2,680,000 | 2022-2023 |
| East Bay Regional Park District | Not stated | $2,646,000 | 2024-2025 |
| City of Alameda | Not stated | $2,640,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Alta Planning & Design | Not stated | $2,563,215 | 2024-2025 |
| Napa County Flood Control District | Not stated | $2,512,500 | 2023-2024 |
| Mendocino Land Trust | Not stated | $2,505,000 | 2024-2025 |
| California Trout, Inc | Not stated | $2,500,000 | 2024-2025 |
| Environmental Science Associates | Not stated | $2,500,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County | Not stated | $2,500,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Northcoast Regional Land Trust | Not stated | $2,492,926 | 2025-2026 |
| Huntington Beach Wetlands Conservancy | Not stated | $2,479,623 | 2020-2021 |
| California Department of Parks and Recreation, Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains | Not stated | $2,275,650 | 2023-2024 |
| Los Penasquitos Lagoon Foundation | Not stated | $2,268,100 | 2023-2024 |
| Mattole Salmon Group | Not stated | $2,250,000 | 2023-2024 |
| The Nature Conservancy | Not stated | $2,247,100 | 2025-2026 |
| Marin County Flood Control and Water Conservation District | Not stated | $2,213,270 | 2024-2025 |
| Alameda County Flood Control and Water Conservation District | Not stated | $2,160,000 | 2022-2023 |
| Point Reyes Bird Observatory, Inc. | Not stated | $2,150,000 | 2022-2023 |
| City of Imperial Beach | Not stated | $2,141,205 | 2023-2024 |
| East Bay Regional Park District | Not stated | $2,075,000 | 2024-2025 |
| County of Orange | Not stated | $2,060,000 | 2020-2021 |
| City of Santa Barbara | Not stated | $2,015,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Association of Bay Area Governments | Not stated | $2,000,000 | 2024-2025 |
| California Department of Parks and Recreation | Not stated | $2,000,000 | 2023-2024 |
| City of Anaheim | Not stated | $2,000,000 | 2024-2025 |
| City of San Clemente | Not stated | $2,000,000 | 2025-2026 |
| County of Humboldt | Not stated | $2,000,000 | 2020-2021 |
| County of Monterey | Not stated | $2,000,000 | 2022-2023 |
| County of San Luis Obispo | Not stated | $2,000,000 | 2024-2025 |
| Esselen Tribe of Monterey County | Not stated | $2,000,000 | 2024-2025 |
| Marin Audubon Society | Not stated | $2,000,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Peninsula Open Space Trust | Not stated | $2,000,000 | 2025-2026 |
| The Wildlands Conservancy | Not stated | $2,000,000 | 2020-2021 |
| Wildlands Conservancy | Not stated | $2,000,000 | 2022-2023 |
| Ducks Unlimited | Not stated | $1,950,000 | 2025-2026 |
| The Nature Conservancy | Not stated | $1,811,600 | 2023-2024 |
| Coastal San Luis Obispo Resource Conservation District | Not stated | $1,809,455 | 2024-2025 |
| Tamien Nation | Not stated | $1,803,328 | 2024-2025 |
| Literacy for Environmental Justice | Not stated | $1,781,600 | 2023-2024 |
| University of California, Santa Barbara | Not stated | $1,773,250 | 2023-2024 |
| City of Eureka | Not stated | $1,755,463 | 2025-2026 |
| McBain Associates | Not stated | $1,752,000 | 2024-2025 |
| Smith River Alliance, Inc. | Not stated | $1,740,000 | 2020-2021 |
| California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Prevention Institute | Not stated | $1,692,360 | 2020-2021 |
| California Rangeland Trust | Not stated | $1,683,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Redwood Coast Land Conservancy | Not stated | $1,660,000 | 2023-2024 |
| City of Oceanside | Not stated | $1,643,344 | 2023-2024 |
| U.S. Forest Service | Not stated | $1,626,000 | 2024-2025 |
| City of Carpinteria | Not stated | $1,620,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Community Nature Connection, Environmental Science Associates, Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority | Not stated | $1,605,500 | 2020-2021 |
| Petaluma River Park Foundation | Not stated | $1,601,800 | 2024-2025 |
| California Trout, Inc | Not stated | $1,600,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Watershed Conservation Authority | Not stated | $1,600,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Marin Link Inc., Novato Baylands Stewards, Point Reyes Bird Observatory dba Point Blue Conservation Science | Not stated | $1,584,802 | 2020-2021 |
| Newport Bay Conservancy | Not stated | $1,575,409 | 2023-2024 |
| California Rangeland Trust | Not stated | $1,570,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Maritime Museum Association of San Diego | Not stated | $1,543,000 | 2025-2026 |
| San Mateo Resource Conservation District | Not stated | $1,542,000 | 2024-2025 |
| Marin County Open Space District | Not stated | $1,504,990 | 2023-2024 |
| Mendocino Land Trust | Not stated | $1,502,000 | 2025-2026 |
| California Department of Parks and Recreation | Not stated | $1,500,000 | 2024-2025 |
| California State Wildlife Foundation, Climate Science Alliance | Not stated | $1,500,000 | 2024-2025 |
| Cayucos Land Conservancy | Not stated | $1,500,000 | 2023-2024 |
| City of Healdsburg | Not stated | $1,500,000 | 2022-2023 |
| City of Oceanside | Not stated | $1,500,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Mattole Salmon Group | Not stated | $1,500,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Mendocino County Resource Conservation District | Not stated | $1,500,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) | Not stated | $1,500,000 | 2022-2023 |
| Santa Clara Valley Habitat Agency | Not stated | $1,500,000 | 2024-2025 |
| Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA | Not stated | $1,500,000 | 2022-2023 |
| Save the Redwoods League | Not stated | $1,500,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Smith River Alliance, Inc. | Not stated | $1,500,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Sonoma County Regional Parks | Not stated | $1,500,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Sonoma Land Trust | Not stated | $1,500,000 | 2022-2023 |
| Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation | Not stated | $1,500,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Trust for Public Land | Not stated | $1,500,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Ventana Wildlife Society | Not stated | $1,500,000 | 2024-2025 |
| City of Orange | Not stated | $1,472,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Humboldt County Resource Conservation District | Not stated | $1,470,452 | 2024-2025 |
| California Department of Parks and Recreation | Not stated | $1,412,307 | 2024-2025 |
| Sonoma Land Trust | Not stated | $1,411,700 | 2024-2025 |
| Town of Tiburon | Not stated | $1,403,200 | 2024-2025 |
| Horizon Water & Environment | Not stated | $1,400,000 | 2024-2025 |
| University of California, Natural Reserve System | Not stated | $1,400,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Petaluma River Park Foundation | Not stated | $1,395,800 | 2022-2023 |
| Crescent City Harbor District | Not stated | $1,377,000 | 2022-2023 |
| Humboldt County Resource Conservation District | Not stated | $1,368,606 | 2023-2024 |
| $1,097,257 to the Yurok Tribe and $250,000 to California Trout | Not stated | $1,347,257 | 2022-2023 |
| Riverside County Regional Park and Open-Space District | Not stated | $1,300,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Smith River Alliance, Inc. | Not stated | $1,300,000 | 2023-2024 |
| City of Fortuna , Wiyot Tribe | Not stated | $1,272,250 | 2024-2025 |
| Anchor QEA, LLC, eTrac, Inc., Revell Coastal, San Francisco Estuary Institute, Stantec Consulting Services Inc., University of Texas at Austin | Not stated | $1,270,107 | 2020-2021 |
| Anchor QEA, LLC, eTrac, Inc., Revell Coastal, San Francisco Estuary Institute, Stantec Consulting Services Inc., University of Texas at Austin | Not stated | $1,270,107 | 2024-2025 |
| Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County | Not stated | $1,261,472 | 2022-2023 |
| Esselen Tribe of Monterey County | Not stated | $1,250,000 | 2025-2026 |
| City of San Buenaventura | Not stated | $1,242,182 | 2025-2026 |
| Sonoma Land Trust | Not stated | $1,241,200 | 2023-2024 |
| Save the Redwoods League, Yurok Tribe | Not stated | $1,239,800 | 2020-2021 |
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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