Coastal Conservancy Grants
- Award ceiling
- $200,000 – $5,000,000
- Closes
- Rolling — no fixed deadline
- Last verified
- 2026-10-17
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Bay Foundation - Santa Monica | Not stated | $338,112 | 2020-2021 |
| City of San Diego | Not stated | $325,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel | Not stated | $317,071 | 2020-2021 |
| The Wildlands Conservancy | Not stated | $315,150 | 2023-2024 |
| Regents of the University of California, San Diego | Not stated | $314,742 | 2024-2025 |
| Humboldt County Resource Conservation District | Not stated | $313,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Grassroots Ecology | Not stated | $312,200 | 2025-2026 |
| Point Reyes Bird Observatory dba Point Blue Conservation Science | Not stated | $311,900 | 2023-2024 |
| Smith River Alliance | Not stated | $309,650 | 2022-2023 |
| Discovery Cube | Not stated | $308,700 | 2022-2023 |
| Multiple | Not stated | $308,200 | 2023-2024 |
| Humboldt County Resource Conservation District | Not stated | $307,170 | 2020-2021 |
| Cachuma Resource Conservation District | Not stated | $305,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Bay Conservation and Development Commission | Not stated | $300,000 | 2024-2025 |
| City of Encinitas | Not stated | $300,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Ventana Wilderness Alliance | Not stated | $300,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Ventana Wildlife Society | Not stated | $300,000 | 2022-2023 |
| Dry Creek Rancheria | Not stated | $299,253 | 2020-2021 |
| Western Flyer Foundation | Not stated | $299,000 | 2024-2025 |
| Smith River Alliance, Inc. | Not stated | $292,000 | 2020-2021 |
| East Bay Regional Park District | Not stated | $290,600 | 2020-2021 |
| County of San Luis Obispo | Not stated | $287,500 | 2020-2021 |
| Pala Band of Mission Indians | Not stated | $286,714 | 2020-2021 |
| Westport Village Society | Not stated | $285,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Scott River Watershed Council | Not stated | $279,491 | 2020-2021 |
| The Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County | Not stated | $278,300 | 2023-2024 |
| Blue Lake Rancheria | Not stated | $277,400 | 2024-2025 |
| Sonoma County Water Agency | Not stated | $277,166 | 2020-2021 |
| City of Capitola | Not stated | $275,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy | Not stated | $275,000 | 2022-2023 |
| Resighini Rancheria | Not stated | $273,337 | 2020-2021 |
| Sustainable Conservation | Not stated | $270,300 | 2023-2024 |
| Yurok Tribe | Not stated | $269,318 | 2020-2021 |
| Family Resource Center of the Redwoods | Not stated | $260,100 | 2023-2024 |
| Western Flyer Foundation | Not stated | $260,000 | 2022-2023 |
| Westport Village Society | Not stated | $260,000 | 2024-2025 |
| 3 non profits | Not stated | $250,000 | 2022-2023 |
| Calwild | Not stated | $250,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Civicorps | Not stated | $250,000 | 2024-2025 |
| County of Sonoma | Not stated | $250,000 | 2022-2023 |
| Los Cerritos Wetlands Authority | Not stated | $250,000 | 2020-2021 |
| OC Parks | Not stated | $250,000 | 2024-2025 |
| Orange County Coastkeeper | Not stated | $250,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Port San Luis Harbor District | Not stated | $250,000 | 2020-2021 |
| Tomales Bay Watershed Council | Not stated | $248,915 | 2022-2023 |
| Marin County Parks | Not stated | $245,000 | 2024-2025 |
| Salmonid Restoration Federation | Not stated | $245,000 | 2020-2021 |
| The Wildlands Conservancy | Not stated | $240,200 | 2025-2026 |
| City of Santa Barbara | Not stated | $240,000 | 2024-2025 |
| Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority | Not stated | $240,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Pacifica Land Trust | Not stated | $239,770 | 2024-2025 |
| The Hill Street Country Club | Not stated | $236,400 | 2025-2026 |
| Noyo Center for Marine Science | Not stated | $233,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Wiyot Tribe | Not stated | $227,125 | 2024-2025 |
| Humboldt County Resource Conservation District | Not stated | $226,300 | 2022-2023 |
| City of San Jose | Not stated | $223,000 | 2020-2021 |
| California Urban Forests Council | Not stated | $218,895 | 2020-2021 |
| Mendocino Land Trust | Not stated | $215,050 | 2024-2025 |
| The Wildlands Conservancy | Not stated | $209,800 | 2020-2021 |
| Community Initiatives | Not stated | $207,600 | 2024-2025 |
| LandPaths (Land Partners Through Stewardship) | Not stated | $205,970 | 2020-2021 |
| Balance Hydrologics | Not stated | $200,000 | 2024-2025 |
| City of Riverside | Not stated | $200,000 | 2022-2023 |
| City of San Luis Obispo | Not stated | $200,000 | 2024-2025 |
| GreenInfo Network | Not stated | $200,000 | 2024-2025 |
| Nature Collective | Not stated | $200,000 | 2020-2021 |
| San Lorenzo Valley Water District | Not stated | $200,000 | 2020-2021 |
| Santa Barbara Botanic Garden | Not stated | $200,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Northwest California Resource Conservation & Development Council | Not stated | $199,525 | 2020-2021 |
| County of Mendocino, Mendocino County Fire Safe Council | Not stated | $197,621 | 2020-2021 |
| City of Brisbane , City of Pacifica | Not stated | $197,500 | 2020-2021 |
| Woodside Fire Protection District | Not stated | $194,400 | 2020-2021 |
| The Buckeye Conservancy | Not stated | $190,892 | 2020-2021 |
| Friends of the Eel River | Not stated | $181,400 | 2025-2026 |
| Recipient name withheld | Not stated | $180,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Trust for Public Land | Not stated | $180,000 | 2024-2025 |
| Defenders of Wildlife, Sea Otter Savvy | Not stated | $179,400 | 2024-2025 |
| Sea Otter Savvy, U.S. Geological Survey, University of California, Santa Cruz | Not stated | $179,260 | 2024-2025 |
| Humboldt County Resource Conservation District | Not stated | $175,200 | 2022-2023 |
| Camp Phoenix | Not stated | $175,000 | 2020-2021 |
| Friends of Friendship Park | Not stated | $175,000 | 2024-2025 |
| Ink People, Inc. | Not stated | $174,965 | 2024-2025 |
| Xa Kako Dile:, Inc. | Not stated | $174,630 | 2024-2025 |
| Defenders of Wildlife, Sea Otter Savvy | Not stated | $174,400 | 2023-2024 |
| Social Good Fund | Not stated | $172,800 | 2024-2025 |
| Friends of the L.A. River | Not stated | $171,484 | 2024-2025 |
| Mattole Salmon Group | Not stated | $170,575 | 2020-2021 |
| Redwood Parks Conservancy | Not stated | $168,256 | 2023-2024 |
| Sonoma Ecology Center | Not stated | $167,400 | 2024-2025 |
| Deslonde Software Development | Not stated | $167,345 | 2020-2021 |
| Santa Cruz Hostel Society | Not stated | $160,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Southwest Wetlands Interpretive Association | Not stated | $153,005 | 2024-2025 |
| California Marine Sanctuary Foundation | Not stated | $151,869 | 2020-2021 |
| Crystal Cove Conservancy | Not stated | $150,000 | 2024-2025 |
| LandPaths (Land Partners Through Stewardship) | Not stated | $150,000 | 2020-2021 |
| Sonoma Land Trust | Not stated | $150,000 | 2020-2021 |
| Trout Unlimited | Not stated | $150,000 | 2024-2025 |
| U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Not stated | $150,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Aquatic Science Center | Not stated | $149,246 | 2020-2021 |
| Bay Area Open Space Council, Together Bay Area | Not stated | $149,000 | 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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