Funding / Funding Opportunities

Funding Opportunities

The Office for Coastal Management’s competitive grant announcements can be found on Grants.gov by searching under the following federal assistance listing numbers:

Table 1.0: Open or Recent NOAA Grant Announcements

Grant Opportunities Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs)

(posted on Grants.gov)
Dates of Interest
Letters of Intent or Pre-applications Proposal Deadline Earliest Start Date
Office for Coastal Management – National Estuarine Research Reserve System National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) Land Acquisition and Construction Program for Fiscal Year 2026 N/A 11:59 p.m. Eastern time, September 18, 2026 March 1, 2027

All deadlines are 11:59 p.m. Eastern time unless noted

Table 2.0: Archive of selected NOAA competitive notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs).

Information about NOAA Office for Coastal Management grants. (pdf)
Electronic grants management systems required to apply for and receive grant funds. (pdf)
Application notifications and submissions. (pdf)