Funding Opportunities
Last updated: July 2026
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Ongoing external lists of funding opportunities:
CAL FIRE Grants
Humboldt County Resource Conservation District Funding Opportunities
Ongoing programs:
Environmental Quality Incentives Program - NRCS’ conservation program that helps farmers, ranchers and forest landowners integrate conservation into working lands.
Technical Assistance through North Coast Resource Partnership - NCRP offers Technical Assistance to Tribes and economically disadvantaged communities to support project development and grant applications for on-the-ground projects that improve forest health and increase wildfire resilience.
Truist Foundation Grants - "We support our communities by investing in innovative nonprofits that work with adults and align with our key areas of focus: building career pathways to economic mobility and strengthening small businesses."
CAL FIRE Wildfire Resilience Program - New Block Grant
August 7, 2026: Concept proposal applications due
Overview:
This new solicitation will be for $10,000,000 in funding under Proposition 4 for projects related to reforestation in California. Eligible entities include local government, 501(c)3 non-profit groups, and Special Districts. The application will be in phases, with Concept Proposals opening July 1st and strong proposals invited to submit: Full Applications in September 2026.
Timeline:
April 2026: Draft grant guidelines posted for public comment
July 1, 2026: August 7, 2026: Concept proposal applications open!
August 7, 2026: Concept proposal applications due
September 1, 2026: Strong concept proposals invited to submit a full application
October 1, 2026: Full applications due
CCCU Community Investment Program
Fall 2026 application round will open August 1
Our Community Investment Program provides grants to local non-profit organizations twice per year. An employee committee reviews all applications and then makes recommendations to our Board of Directors who approves grant recipients. Grants ranging generally from $3,000 to $25,000 are awarded, up to a total of $100,000 in each round.
CAL FIRE Wildfire Prevention Grants
Accepting applications through July 8, 2026
CAL FIRE’s Wildfire Prevention Grants Program provides funding for wildfire prevention projects and activities in and near fire threatened communities that focus on increasing the protection of people, structures, and communities. Funded activities include hazardous fuels reduction, wildfire prevention planning, and wildfire prevention education with an emphasis on improving public health and safety while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Project Types and Activities – The three qualifying projects and activities include those related to hazardous fuels reduction, wildfire prevention planning, and wildfire prevention education.
California Forest Improvement Program
Solicitation Periods: April 1, July 1, October 1
The program scope includes the improvement of all forest resources including fish & wildlife habitat, and soil & water quality. Cost-share assistance is provided to private and public ownerships containing 20 to 5,000 acres of forested land. Cost-shared activities include:
- Preparation of a Forest Management Plan by a Registered Professional Forester (RPF)
- RPF Supervision of the following:
- Reforestation
- Site Preparation
- Trees and Planting
- Tree Shelters
- Stand Improvement
- Pre-commercial Thinning or Release
- Pruning
- Follow-up (includes mechanical, herbicide and/or slash disposal follow-up)
- Forestland conservation practices / fish and wildlife habitat improvement
- Reforestation
Broadcast/controlled/cultural burning is not eligible for CFIP cost share
CDFW Cannabis Restoration Grant Program (CRGP)
Deadline: Continuous
“The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is seeking high quality grant proposals for eligible applicants to assist qualified cannabis cultivators and enhance CDFW’s mission to manage California’s diverse fish, wildlife, and plant resources, and the habitats upon which they depend, for their ecological values and for their use and enjoyment by the public.”
Tribal Wildfire Resilience Grants
Concept proposal applications will be open from early July to early September, 2026.
Tribal Wildfire Resilience grants is part of CAL FIRE’s Climate and Energy Program and supports California Native American tribes in managing ancestral lands, implementing and promoting Traditional Environmental Knowledges in wildfire resilience, and establishing wildfire safety for tribal communities.
Tribal Wildfire Resilience grants fund planning and implementation projects that serve California Native American Tribes and advance wildfire resilience, forest health, and cultural use of fire. These projects address critical needs and may include:
- Cultural and prescribed burns
- Creation and maintenance of shaded fuel breaks
- Forest health and wildfire resilience projects
- Workforce Development and training programs in fire, forestry, and related Traditional Ecological Knowledges
- Development of restoration plans, fire or forest management plans
- Biological/cultural surveys, environmental compliance, permitting, mapping projects
California Wildfire Mitigation Program
2023-2025
Program Overview: “As part of the State of California’s initiative to strengthen community-wide resilience against wildfires, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) has partnered with the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) to develop a community home hardening program to retrofit, harden, and create defensible space for homes at high risk to wildfires—with a focus on high social-vulnerability communities and providing financial assistance for low- and moderate- income (LMI) households. The community home hardening concept comes from the latest fire science—the more homes hardened in a community, the lower the risk of wildfire impacts.”
Purpose: “In coordination with state and local partners, the program will establish a community home hardening framework and process that can be modeled statewide. The program will provide the opportunity for California communities to leverage funding opportunities and adapt the program to address local community resilience needs.
This program is currently operating in select demonstration communities with the goal of expanding across the state in 2023.”
Pilot Phase: This program is currently being implenented in the Whitmore area of Shasta County, the Dulzura area of San Diego County, and the Kelseyville-Riviera area of Lake County.
California Forest Health Grants
Applications currently closed
Program Overview: The Forest Health Program addresses the risk to California’s forests from extreme disturbance events including catastrophic wildfires, drought, and pest mortality. These events are the result of climate change, forest overcrowding, past land management practices, and an increasing number of people living in the wildland and urban interface.
Purpose: The objective of the CAL FIRE Forest Health Program is to conserve forests and improve forest health by significantly increasing fuels reduction, fire reintroduction, treatment of degraded areas and conservation of threatened forests with landscape-scale projects developed and led by regionally-based efforts.