1,000+ Opportunities
Find the right grant
Search federal, foundation, and corporate grants with AI — or browse by agency, topic, and state.
This listing may be outdated. Verify details at the official source before applying.
Find similar grantsBEACH Act Grants (to Monitor Water Quality at Beaches) is sponsored by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This opportunity supports mission-aligned projects and measurable outcomes.
Get alerted about grants like this
Get emailed when new opportunities from “U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)” or related funders appear. Free, weekly, unsubscribe anytime.
Or search similar grants →Extracted from the official opportunity page/RFP to help you evaluate fit faster.
National Beach Guidance and Required Performance Criteria for Grants The EPA awards grants under authority of the BEACH Act to eligible states, territories and Tribes with beaches on ocean and Great Lakes coasts to develop and implement programs to monitor their beaches and notify the public when it is not safe to swim.
During each swimming season, state and local health and environmental protection agencies monitor the quality of water at the nation’s beaches. When bacteria levels in the water are too high, these agencies notify the public by posting warnings or closing the beach.
The grants help local authorities monitor beach water quality, notify the public of conditions that may be unsafe for swimming, and submit data to the EPA for inclusion in a publicly accessible system, BEACON . To be eligible for BEACH Act grants, states, territories and Tribes must have coastal recreational waters (including the Great Lakes) adjacent to beaches or similar points of access used by the public.
They also need to have EPA-approved numeric recreational water quality standards for pathogens or pathogen indicators for the coastal waters, and they need to meet 11 performance criteria for implementing the monitoring, assessment, and notification parts of the beach program. There are currently 30 states, five territories and five Tribes that are eligible to apply for beach grant funds.
Three factors influence the allocations for awarding grant totals up to $10M: The length of the beach season; the number of miles of shoreline; and The populations of coastal counties.
If the grants total more than $10M, then these two factors are considered for the amount above $10M: Number of miles of beaches; and The EPA initially announced the formula for calculating grant allocations in the Federal Register on March 31, 2003 (refer to 68 FR 15446) and published a supplemental allocation formula for grant totals greater than $10M on January 11, 2010 (refer to 75 FR 1373).
The EPA has awarded more than $245 million in grants for the beach monitoring and notification programs since it started awarding grants in 2001. Table 1 shows the amount the agency has awarded the past few years: Table 1: BEACH Act grant totals from recent fiscal years.
Fiscal Year Grant Total 2026 $9,750,000 2025 $9,737,000 2024 $9,750,000 2023 $10,619,000 For a breakdown of how the grants were allocated among states, territories and Tribes, and the required performance criteria, refer to: Beach Grants from Fiscal Year 2001 through 2026 (pdf) National Beach Guidance and Required Performance Criteria for Grants Data Reporting Requirements under Beach Act Grants Contacts for the EPA, state Tribe and territory beach programs .
Information Collection Request Every three years, the EPA updates the reporting requirements for the BEACH Act Grants Information Collection Request (ICR). As a grant condition, grant recipients are required to collect and submit beach monitoring and notification information to the EPA. Collection of this information allows the EPA to evaluate the extent to which grant recipients fulfill the requirements of the BEACH Act.
Latest approved Information Collection Request (December 19, 2024) This report by the EPA’s OIG evaluates how the agency grants provided under the BEACH Act assist states, territories and Tribes in monitoring the water quality of coastal recreation waters and notifying the public of contamination events.
Full Report (Report No. 18-P-0071, January 18, 2018) Contact Us about Beaches to ask a question, provide feedback, or report a problem. Last updated on May 21, 2026
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: North Carolina state agencies responsible for beach water quality monitoring and public notification. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows $293,000 for North Carolina. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
BEACH Act Grants (to Monitor Water Quality at Beaches) is funded by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
This opportunity targets applicants in North Carolina. If your organization operates elsewhere, check the official notice for location requirements.
Applications go through the funder's official portal — the Apply Now link on this page goes there directly.
Conservation Partners Program is sponsored by National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) in partnership with USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), The J.M. Smucker Co., PepsiCo, General Mills, Cargill, Nestlé, Walmart, and Sam's Club. The Conservation Partners Program funds locally-led projects that provide technical assistance to agricultural producers to adopt regenerative agriculture systems and conservation practices.
Reducing Industrial Sector Emissions in Pennsylvania (RISE PA) Grant Program is sponsored by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) via Pennsylvania State University. This program offers grants for small-, medium-, and large-scale decarbonization projects at industrial facilities to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) and co-pollutant emissions by promoting investment into emissions reduction equipment and technology and energy efficiency upgrades.
On June 29, 2026, EPA announced it will waive the $25,000 WIFIA application fee and the credit processing fee — averaging roughly $156,000 per loan — for communities of 25,000 or fewer residents in fiscal years 2026 and 2027. Combined, that removes nearly $200,000 in upfront cost from the single most affordable federal water-infrastructure financing program, which carries roughly $11 billion in available capacity and can cover up to 80% of eligible project costs at Treasury-rate pricing. For small towns, rural utilities, and the nonprofits and districts that serve them, this is a rare instance of the federal government lowering the barrier to a program that has historically been out of reach for exactly the communities that need it most. Here is what changed, who qualifies, and how to move on a letter of interest before the window closes.
Read articleFor FY2026 and FY2027, EPA is waiving the $25,000 WIFIA application fee and the ~$156,000 credit-processing fee for water systems serving 25,000 or fewer people — a near-$200,000 discount on access to an $11 billion pool of low-cost federal financing. The waiver removes the single barrier that kept small and rural utilities out of WIFIA for a decade. Here is how WIFIA actually works, who qualifies, why the letter of interest is the real gate, and how a town of 8,000 should think about a program built for billion-dollar projects.
Read articleFor FY2026 and FY2027, EPA is waiving the WIFIA application and credit-processing fees for communities of 25,000 or fewer — saving nearly $200,000 per loan — against roughly $11 billion in flexible financing that covers up to 80 percent of project costs. Here is why WIFIA has been underused by small systems, how the loan actually works, and how a rural utility should build a WIFIA strategy in 2026.
Read article