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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| County of Humboldt | Not stated | $693,700 | 2023-2024 |
| Bay Area Council Foundation | Not stated | $693,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority | Not stated | $685,546 | 2022-2023 |
| Urban Corps of San Diego | Not stated | $661,367 | 2020-2021 |
| Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District | Not stated | $661,250 | 2020-2021 |
| County of Santa Cruz | Not stated | $650,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Elk Valley Rancheria | Not stated | $650,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Jughandle Creek Farm and Nature Center | Not stated | $619,569 | 2024-2025 |
| Buena Vista Lagoon Audubon Society | Not stated | $600,000 | 2024-2025 |
| Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County | Not stated | $600,000 | 2020-2021 |
| Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission | Not stated | $600,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Sonoma County Regional Parks | Not stated | $600,000 | 2023-2024 |
| City of Arcata | Not stated | $597,000 | 2025-2026 |
| County of Santa Cruz | Not stated | $590,000 | 2022-2023 |
| North East Trees | Not stated | $581,500 | 2020-2021 |
| City of Santa Cruz | Not stated | $575,000 | 2024-2025 |
| Huntington Beach Wetlands Conservancy | Not stated | $575,000 | 2022-2023 |
| Eel River Recovery Project | Not stated | $573,070 | 2020-2021 |
| Mendocino Land Trust | Not stated | $565,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority | Not stated | $550,000 | 2020-2021 |
| City of Carlsbad | Not stated | $533,175 | 2020-2021 |
| California Trout Inc. | Not stated | $530,000 | 2022-2023 |
| City of Santa Barbara | Not stated | $525,000 | 2022-2023 |
| Pepperwood Foundation | Not stated | $515,200 | 2022-2023 |
| Santa Cruz Hostel Society | Not stated | $508,000 | 2022-2023 |
| Commerical Fisherman of Santa Barbara | Not stated | $507,500 | 2025-2026 |
| City of Healdsburg | Not stated | $505,000 | 2020-2021 |
| Applied Earthworks, KTU & A, State Lands Commission | Not stated | $500,000 | 2023-2024 |
| California Department of Parks and Recreation, California State Parks and Recreation | Not stated | $500,000 | 2024-2025 |
| City of Oakland | Not stated | $500,000 | 2022-2023 |
| City of Santa Ana | Not stated | $500,000 | 2022-2023 |
| City of Santa Cruz | Not stated | $500,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Mid-Klamath Watershed Council | Not stated | $500,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Mid-Klamath Watershed Council | Not stated | $500,000 | 2025-2026 |
| San Francisco Recreation and Park Department | Not stated | $500,000 | 2020-2021 |
| San Mateo Resource Conservation District | Not stated | $500,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Town of Fairfax | Not stated | $500,000 | 2023-2024 |
| City of Hermosa Beach | Not stated | $499,650 | 2020-2021 |
| Endangered Habitats Conservancy | Not stated | $499,510 | 2024-2025 |
| Noyo Center for Marine Science | Not stated | $498,000 | 2024-2025 |
| Endangered Habitats Conservancy, Land Conservation Services | Not stated | $490,171 | 2020-2021 |
| City of Point Arena | Not stated | $485,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Elkhorn Slough Foundation | Not stated | $483,600 | 2022-2023 |
| San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board | Not stated | $482,423 | 2022-2023 |
| City of Sand City | Not stated | $473,500 | 2023-2024 |
| Gold Ridge Resource Conservation District | Not stated | $470,900 | 2023-2024 |
| Sonoma Land Trust | Not stated | $469,100 | 2023-2024 |
| Mattole Restoration Council | Not stated | $467,000 | 2024-2025 |
| Coastal San Luis Obispo Resource Conservation District | Not stated | $465,775 | 2020-2021 |
| California Department of Parks and Recreation | Not stated | $460,000 | 2020-2021 |
| City of Oceanside | Not stated | $460,000 | 2020-2021 |
| Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County | Not stated | $460,000 | 2020-2021 |
| Russian Riverkeeper | Not stated | $459,500 | 2025-2026 |
| Cal Poly Humboldt | Not stated | $450,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Wildlands Conservancy | Not stated | $449,900 | 2022-2023 |
| Mendocino County Resource Conservation District | Not stated | $447,785 | 2024-2025 |
| San Francisco Estuary Institute | Not stated | $446,400 | 2023-2024 |
| California Trout, Inc | Not stated | $445,990 | 2020-2021 |
| The Nature Conservancy | Not stated | $445,000 | 2025-2026 |
| City of Pacifica | Not stated | $440,000 | 2022-2023 |
| The Wildlands Conservancy | Not stated | $439,000 | 2024-2025 |
| Friends of the Petaluma River | Not stated | $435,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Mattole Restoration Council | Not stated | $431,900 | 2025-2026 |
| Friends of the Dunes | Not stated | $431,500 | 2025-2026 |
| Ducks Unlimited | Not stated | $426,017 | 2022-2023 |
| Applied Earthworks, KTU & A, State Lands Commission | Not stated | $425,000 | 2023-2024 |
| City of Healdsburg | Not stated | $414,000 | 2020-2021 |
| Save the Redwoods League | Not stated | $413,000 | 2020-2021 |
| Coastal Corridor Alliance | Not stated | $410,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Resource Conservation District of Monterey County | Not stated | $406,900 | 2022-2023 |
| ytt Northern Chumash Nonprofit | Not stated | $400,900 | 2024-2025 |
| Southwest Wetlands Interpretive Association | Not stated | $400,453 | 2020-2021 |
| California Department of Parks and Recreation | Not stated | $400,000 | 2023-2024 |
| California Trout, Inc | Not stated | $400,000 | 2020-2021 |
| County of Humboldt | Not stated | $400,000 | 2022-2023 |
| Horizon Water & Environment, Montrose Environmental Solutions, Inc. | Not stated | $400,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Midpeninsula Open Space District | Not stated | $400,000 | 2020-2021 |
| Noyo Center for Marine Science | Not stated | $400,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Ojai Valley Land Conservancy | Not stated | $400,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Santa Clara County Fire Safe Council | Not stated | $400,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Solano Land Trust | Not stated | $400,000 | 2022-2023 |
| Sonoma Public Infrastructure | Not stated | $400,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation | Not stated | $398,000 | 2024-2025 |
| San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory | Not stated | $396,200 | 2022-2023 |
| County of Santa Barbara | Not stated | $396,000 | 2020-2021 |
| Association of Bay Area Governments | Not stated | $366,250 | 2022-2023 |
| County of Humboldt | Not stated | $362,049 | 2023-2024 |
| County of Santa Cruz | Not stated | $360,000 | 2020-2021 |
| County of Ventura | Not stated | $358,000 | 2022-2023 |
| City of Riverside | Not stated | $354,000 | 2023-2024 |
| Port San Luis Marine Institute | Not stated | $353,000 | 2020-2021 |
| City of Ukiah | Not stated | $350,000 | 2024-2025 |
| County of Santa Cruz | Not stated | $350,000 | 2025-2026 |
| Friends of the Dunes | Not stated | $350,000 | 2022-2023 |
| Orange County Coastkeeper | Not stated | $350,000 | 2024-2025 |
| San Diego Association of Governments | Not stated | $350,000 | 2020-2021 |
| County of San Diego | Not stated | $346,000 | 2020-2021 |
| Sonoma County Regional Parks | Not stated | $345,650 | 2020-2021 |
| Mid-Klamath Watershed Council | Not stated | $341,607 | 2020-2021 |
| Southwest Wetlands Interpretive Association | Not stated | $340,000 | 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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