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:
- 11.419 – Coastal Zone Management Administration (Projects of Special Merit, Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program, Research Reserves Collaborative Science Program)
- 11.420 – National Estuarine Research Reserves
- 11.473 – Office for Coastal Management (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, NOAA Climate Resilience Regional Challenge)
- 11.482 – Coral Reef Conservation Program
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)