Capital Grants and Loans is a program from the Washington State Department of Commerce that provides a comprehensive catalog of state capital funding opportunities for nonprofit organizations and other eligible entities in Washington.

The program aggregates dozens of competitive grant and loan programs across state agencies covering areas such as historic preservation, community facilities, public safety, housing, agriculture, broadband, energy, arts and culture, youth development, and environmental projects. Awards and eligible applicants vary by sub-program.

The catalog is designed to help nonprofits, local governments, tribes, and other organizations identify and access state capital funding for construction, renovation, rehabilitation, and acquisition projects.

**New / Updated****Agency**Community & Technical College System**Grant/Loan Program**CTC Career Prep and Launch Equipment Grants**Brief Program Description**Competitive grants to community and technical colleges to purchase and install equipment that expands career-connected learning opportunities. There may be up to two or three award cycles throughout the year, if needed to fully allocate funding.

**Eligible Organizations**Public Comm/Technical Colleges**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**3,000 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Agriculture**Grant/Loan Program**Safety and Access at Fairs**Brief Program Description**Grants for local governments and nonprofit organizations to support capital projects that make health or safety improvements to agricultural fairgrounds or fair facilities in order to benefit participants and the fair-going public.

Multiple grant rounds may be awarded. Preference is given to applicants who use the money to address a safety and / or health situation, or to address a legal requirement. See program website for details.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, Non-Profit Organizations, Towns**Application Window**July - September; odd years**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**9,000 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Archaeology & Historic Preservation**Grant/Loan Program**Heritage Barn Preservation Program**Brief Program Description**Competitive grant program to assist with rehabilitation projects to preserve and rehabilitate historic barns across the state.

Historic agricultural structures listed in the Heritage Barn Register, Washington Heritage Register, or National Register of Historic Places, are eligible to receive grant funds. For the 25-27 biennium, heritage barn grant applications are due October 19th at midnight.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, Landowners, Non-Profit Organizations, Special Purpose Districts, Towns**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**900 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Archaeology & Historic Preservation**Grant/Loan Program**Historic Cemetery Grant Program**Brief Program Description**Grants for rehabilitatation or renovation of decaying or abandoned cemeteries to preserve the historic character, features, or materials or that maintain or improve the functions of the cemetery.

Grants are awarded through a competitive application process. Any cemetery containing five or more burials, with at least one burial more than 50 years old, is eligible for grant funding.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, Landowners, Non-Profit Organizations, Special Purpose Districts**Application Window**October - December; odd years**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**515 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Archaeology & Historic Preservation**Grant/Loan Program**Historic County Courthouse Rehabilitation Grants**Brief Program Description**Competitive grant program designed to provide state matching funds for eligible county courthouse rehabilitation and preservation capital projects.

**Eligible Organizations**Counties**Application Window**July - September; even years**Application Process Approval**Legislatively-Approved List**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**7,443 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Archaeology & Historic Preservation**Grant/Loan Program**Historic Theater Capital Grants Program**Brief Program Description**Grants are provided to eligible organizations for capital projects that restore and rehabilitate historical theater buildings.

To qualify, a theater must have been originally built as a theater, be currently operating as, or will be restored to operate as, a theater, and be listed (or be applying to be listed) in the Washington Heritage Register or the National Register of Historic Places.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, For-Profit Organizations, Non-Profit Organizations, Special Purpose Districts, Towns, Tribes**Application Window**October - December; odd years**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**515 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Commerce**Grant/Loan Program**Behavioral Health Community Capacity Grants**Brief Program Description**The Department of Commerce, in collaboration with the Department of Social and Health Services, the Health Care Authority, and the Department of Health, awards grants to community hospitals and other community entities to expand and establish new capacity for behavioral health services, as well as prevent the closure of community behavioral health facilities around the state.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, For-Profit Organizations, Non-Profit Organizations, Other, Tribes**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**129,847 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Commerce**Grant/Loan Program**Broadband Office**Brief Program Description**Grants for broadband infrastructure projects funded through the federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program that meet a number of eligibility requirements including serving areas that are unserved or underserved and will provide minimum speeds of 100 megabits per second (mps) upload and 20 mps download.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, For-Profit Organizations, Higher Education Institutions, Non-Profit Organizations, Other, Port Districts, Public Utility Districts, Public Comm/Technical Colleges, Special Purpose Districts, State Agencies, School Districts, Towns, Tribes**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**1,341,777 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Commerce**Grant/Loan Program**Building Communities Fund**Brief Program Description**The Building Communities Fund Program awards state grants to nonprofit, community-based organizations to defray up to 25 percent or more of eligible capital costs to acquire, construct, or rehabilitate nonresidential community and social service centers.

**Eligible Organizations**Non-Profit Organizations, Tribes**Application Window**April - June; even years**Application Process Approval**Legislatively-Approved List**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**49,082 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Commerce**Grant/Loan Program**Building for the Arts**Brief Program Description**The Building for the Arts Program awards grants to performing arts centers, art museums, and cultural organizations for up to one-third of eligible capital costs for acquisition, construction, and/or major renovation of arts and cultural facilities.

**Eligible Organizations**Non-Profit Organizations, Tribes**Application Window**April - June; even years**Application Process Approval**Legislatively-Approved List**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**18,000 **New / Updated**New**Agency**Department of Commerce**Grant/Loan Program**Clean Building Performance Grants**Brief Program Description**Grants for energy efficiency improvements in public and private buildings to assist with compliance with the state Clean Buildings Performance Standard.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Other, Port Districts, Public Comm/Technical Colleges, Special Purpose Districts, State Agencies, Towns, Tribes**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**5,000 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Commerce**Grant/Loan Program**Clean Energy Fund**Brief Program Description**The Clean Energy Fund program funds the development, demonstration and deployment of clean energy technology.

Projects include clean energy development grants for Tribes; research, development, and demonstration of new technologies; and electrical grid integration and innovation projects. Application process varies by grant type, please see website for more details.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, Higher Education Institutions, Non-Profit Organizations, Other, Port Districts, Public Utility Districts, Special Purpose Districts, School Districts, Towns, Tribes**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**35,000 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Commerce**Grant/Loan Program**Community Economic Revitalization Board Program**Brief Program Description**CERB has the authority to finance public infrastructure improvements that encourage new private business development and expansion.

In addition to funding construction projects, CERB provides limited funding for studies that evaluate high-priority economic development and broadband projects. The board reviews projects and meets every two months.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, Community Water Systems, Other, Port Districts, Public Utility Districts, Special Purpose Districts, Towns, Tribes**Application Window**Rolling**Application Process Approval**First Come, First Served**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**81,330 **New / Updated**New**Agency**Department of Commerce**Grant/Loan Program**Community EV Charging**Brief Program Description**Grants for community electric vehicle charging infrastructure and equipment.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, Other, Port Districts, Public Utility Districts, Special Purpose Districts, Towns, Tribes**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**23,000 **New / Updated**New**Agency**Department of Commerce**Grant/Loan Program**Community Participatory Budgeting**Brief Program Description**Grants for the development and administration of a participatory budgeting grant program to fund climate resiliency projects that benefit overburdened communities.

Eligible entities are those identified as overburdened in consultation with the Environmental Justice Council created in RCW 70A. 02. 110.

**Eligible Organizations**Other**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**Other**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**8,300 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Commerce**Grant/Loan Program**Connecting Housing to Infrastructure Program**Brief Program Description**Grants for sewer, water or stormwater improvements and/or waived system development charges for new affordable housing projects.

The project must be located in a city or county that imposed a sales and use tax for affordable housing. Projects must also be located within the urban growth boundary, begin construction within 24 months of award, and have a strong probability of serving residents within specified income levels for at least 25 years.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, Public Utility Districts**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**100,000 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Commerce**Grant/Loan Program**Defense Community Compatibility**Brief Program Description**Grants to entities who have entered into an agreement with a military installation under the US Department of Defense Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration Program.

Grants may be used for projects that address land development and military operations that impact the economy, environment, or quality of life opportunities for local communities. Eligible projects include land acquisition, recovery or protection of endangered species, increase affordable housing, and others.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, Non-Profit Organizations, Other, Port Districts, Public Utility Districts, Special Purpose Districts, School Districts, Towns, Tribes**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**Legislatively-Approved List**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**11,151 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Commerce**Grant/Loan Program**Early Learning Facilities – School Districts**Brief Program Description**Provides grants to K-12 school districts to expand, remodel, purchase, or construct early learning facilities and classrooms necessary to support state-funded early learning opportunities for low-income children.

**Eligible Organizations**School Districts**Application Window**April - June; even years**Application Process Approval**Legislatively-Approved List**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**12,119 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Commerce**Grant/Loan Program**Early Learning Facilities Grants and Loans**Brief Program Description**The Early Learning Facilities program provides grants to Early Childhood Education Assistance Program (ECEAP) contractors and Working Connections Child Care (WCCC) providers to expand, remodel, purchase, or construct early learning facilities and classrooms necessary to support state-funded early learning opportunities for low-income children.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, For-Profit Organizations, Higher Education Institutions, Non-Profit Organizations, Other, Towns, Tribes**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**83,078 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Commerce**Grant/Loan Program**Energy Retrofits for Public Buildings**Brief Program Description**Energy efficiency and solar grant funded projects that result in energy and operational cost savings at state public higher education institutions, local government facilities, state agencies, tribal governments, and K-12 public school districts.

Application process, match requirements, and eligible grantees vary by grant type. Please see website for additional details.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, Higher Education Institutions, State Agencies, School Districts, Tribes**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**Other**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**20,000 **New / Updated**New**Agency**Department of Commerce**Grant/Loan Program**Home Electrification and Appliance Rebates Program**Brief Program Description**Grants to partnering organizations to provide rebates and incentives to low-and moderate-income households and to small businesses to purchase and install high-efficiency electric appliances and equipment.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, Non-Profit Organizations, Other, Public Utility Districts, Towns, Tribes**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**Other**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**30,000 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Commerce**Grant/Loan Program**Housing Trust Fund**Brief Program Description**Competitive grant and loan program to fund affordable housing for low-income persons and special needs populations.

The program supports the construction, acquisition, rehabilitation, or preservation of low-income housing units; assists low-income homebuyers with down payments to purchase their first homes; and provides pre-development technical assistance and organizational capacity building through strategic partnerships. Transit-oriented housing funding was added in 2023.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, Non-Profit Organizations, Other, Towns, Tribes**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**605,238 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Commerce**Grant/Loan Program**Library Capital Improvement Program**Brief Program Description**Competitive grant program to assist libraries operated by governmental units in acquiring, constructing, or rehabilitating facilities.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, Other, Towns**Application Window**January - March; even years**Application Process Approval**Legislatively-Approved List**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**6,503 **New / Updated**New**Agency**Department of Commerce**Grant/Loan Program**Low-Income Community Solar**Brief Program Description**Grants for community solar and battery storage projects available to organizations serving low-income communitites.

**Eligible Organizations**Other**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**20,650 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Commerce**Grant/Loan Program**Public Works Board**Brief Program Description**Provides loans and grants for public works projects for the planning, acquisition, construction, repair, reconstruction, replacement, rehabilitation, or improvement of streets and roads, bridges, water systems, or storm and sanitary sewage systems, and solid waste facilities, including recycling facilities.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, Public Utility Districts, Special Purpose Districts, Towns**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**365,000 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Commerce**Grant/Loan Program**Rural Rehabilitation**Brief Program Description**Grant program for rural single-family homeowners with low income to pay for the cost for home rehabilitation to stabilize and make weatherization-ready.

Commerce contracts with local governments, tribal nations, and other approved grantees to provide home rehabilitation services.

**Eligible Organizations**Landowners**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**Other**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**5,000 **New / Updated**New**Agency**Department of Commerce**Grant/Loan Program**Tribal Climate Adaptation**Brief Program Description**Grants to assist tribes with preparing for the effects of climate changes, including supporting the relocation of tribal communities.

**Eligible Organizations**Tribes**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**50,000 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Commerce**Grant/Loan Program**Weatherization Program**Brief Program Description**The Weatherization Program provides grants to local partners to improve energy efficiency & home health for low-income single family and multi-family households.

Projects include adding insulation, sealing cracks, and other changes that reduce heat loss, save money on heating bills and make homes healthier. The federal government and Washington State fund weatherization programs in Commerce. Commerce contracts with local agencies that provide the weatherization services.

**Eligible Organizations**Non-Profit Organizations, Other, Tribes**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**Other**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**35,000 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Commerce**Grant/Loan Program**Youth Recreational Facilities**Brief Program Description**Competitive grant program designed to fund up to 25 percent of eligible capital costs for the acquisition, construction and/or major renovation of nonresidential youth recreational facilities (excluding outdoor athletic fields).

**Eligible Organizations**Non-Profit Organizations, Tribes**Application Window**April - June; even years**Application Process Approval**Legislatively-Approved List**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**7,688 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Ecology**Grant/Loan Program**Affordable Housing Cleanup Grant Program**Brief Program Description**Provides funds to public, nonprofit, and private entities intending to remediate contaminated property to develop affordable housing.

Categories include: Affordable Housing Planning Grants and Affordable Housing Cleanup Grants.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, For-Profit Organizations, Non-Profit Organizations, Other, Towns**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**Legislatively-Approved List**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**11,000 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Ecology**Grant/Loan Program**Clean Diesel Grants**Brief Program Description**Clean diesel grant funds can be used to help purchase and install clean diesel technology on public and privately-owned heavy-duty vehicles and equipment.

The program’s primary objective is to electrify school buses, but the program will also support idle reduction and other diesel equipment engine replacements.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, Other, Port Districts, Public Utility Districts, State Agencies, School Districts, Tribes**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**Other**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**7,816 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Ecology**Grant/Loan Program**Coastal Wetlands Federal Funds**Brief Program Description**The National Coastal Wetland Conservation grant program supports the long-term conservation of coastal wetland ecosystems for the benefit of coastal communities, fish and wildlife and their habitats, and the recreating public.

The competitive federal program provides grants for projects that protect and restore coastal wetland resources. Projects may include acquisition of a real property interest in a coastal wetland ecosystem and the restoration of coastal wetlands.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, Non-Profit Organizations, Other, Port Districts, State Agencies, Towns, Tribes**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**Federal Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**10,000 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Ecology**Grant/Loan Program**Floodplains by Design**Brief Program Description**Floodplains by Design (FbD) is a partnership between local, state, federal, and private organizations to coordinate integrated management of floodplain areas throughout Washington.

FbD works to accelerate integrated efforts to reduce flood risks and restore habitat along Washington's major river corridors. Its goal is to improve the resiliency of floodplains in order to protect local communities and the health of the environment.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, Non-Profit Organizations, Other, Port Districts, Tribes**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**Legislatively-Approved List**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**75,783 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Ecology**Grant/Loan Program**Freshwater Algae Grant Program**Brief Program Description**Freshwater Algae Grants are provided to communities to monitor and remove nuisance algae and manage excessive freshwater algal blooms, with priority for the treatment of lakes in which harmful algal blooms have occurred within the past three years.

Ecology issues between three and five grants each year.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, Special Purpose Districts, State Agencies, Tribes**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**468 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Ecology**Grant/Loan Program**Freshwater Aquatic Invasive Plants Grant Program**Brief Program Description**Freshwater Aquatic Invasive Plants Grants are awarded to communities to help control aquatic invasive plants.

Eligible activities include development of integrated aquatic vegetation management plans, plant control activities, education and information projects, aquatic plant mapping and inventory, and pilot and demonstration projects, evaluation of implementation effectiveness and follow-up monitoring.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, Special Purpose Districts, State Agencies, Tribes**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**1,300 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Ecology**Grant/Loan Program**Product Replacement Program**Brief Program Description**The Product Replacement Program offers financial incentives to Washington businesses to remove or replace consumer products containing toxic chemicals through technology and infrastructure upgrades, best management practices, disposal programs, and the use of safer chemicals.

Currently, programs are in development or available for auto degreasers, cosmetics, PCB lights, and thermal receipts.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, For-Profit Organizations, Non-Profit Organizations, Other, Towns**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**Other**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**2,000 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Ecology**Grant/Loan Program**Reducing Toxic Woodstove Emissions**Brief Program Description**Ecology provides grants to local clean air agencies to assist communities that violate or are close to violating federal fine particle pollution standards to remove uncertified wood-burning home heating devices with cleaner home heating options.

Priority will be given to communities at high risk of violating national ambient air quality standards to prevent violations and avoid significant economic, environmental, and public health consequences.

**Eligible Organizations**Other**Application Window**July - September; annually**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**4,164 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Ecology**Grant/Loan Program**Remedial Action Grants and Loans**Brief Program Description**Provides funds to local governments to clean up contaminated areas.

Categories are: integrated planning grants; oversight remedial action grants; independent remedial action grants; and area-wide groundwater investigation grants. Local governments can apply for a loan or grant to help clean up hazardous waste sites supervised by the Department of Ecology or the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under a legal order or decree.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, Other, Port Districts**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**Legislatively-Approved List**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**84,425 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Ecology**Grant/Loan Program**Stormwater Public Private Partnerships**Brief Program Description**Grants to develop public-private partnerships for stormwater retrofit projects that treat polluted stormwater.

**Eligible Organizations**Other**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**Other**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**3,000 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Ecology**Grant/Loan Program**Streamflow Restoration Implementation Grants**Brief Program Description**Provides funding for projects that improve streamflow and instream resources.

Priority is given to watersheds and areas addressed in the law and basins with Endangered Species Act-listed fish species.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, Non-Profit Organizations, Special Purpose Districts, State Agencies, Tribes**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**Other**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**40,000 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Ecology**Grant/Loan Program**Waste Tire Pile Cleanup and Prevention**Brief Program Description**The tire program provides funding to local governments to prevent and remove waste tire piles, and the enforcement and education on tire storage and hauling regulation.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, Port Districts, Public Utility Districts, Special Purpose Districts, Towns**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**1,000 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Ecology**Grant/Loan Program**Water Quality Combined Funding Program**Brief Program Description**A competitive application process providing low-interest loans and grants for projects that protect and improve water quality in Washington.

These projects are wastewater treatment facilities, stormwater, onsite sewage systems, or projects to reduce nonpoint sources of water pollution. Applications are accepted annually between August and October.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, Conservation Districts, Non-Profit Organizations, Special Purpose Districts, Towns, Tribes**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**Other**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**755,000 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Health**Grant/Loan Program**Drinking Water Assistance Programs**Brief Program Description**The Drinking Water Assistance Program awards low-interest loans and grants and provides technical assistance to publicly and privately-owned community and not-for-profit noncommunity water systems for planning, engineering, consolidation and acquisition, preconstruction, lead service line inventories and replacement, and construction projects that improve drinking water infrastructure and increase public health.

Please see program website for details.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, Community Water Systems, Non-Profit Organizations, Other, Public Utility Districts, Special Purpose Districts**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**145,000 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Natural Resources**Grant/Loan Program**Forest Riparian Easement Program**Brief Program Description**FREP compensates eligible small forest landowners in exchange for a 50-year easement on “qualifying timber.

” This is the timber the landowner is required to leave un-harvested as a result of forest practices rules protecting Washington’s forests and fish. Landowners cannot cut or remove the qualifying timber during the easement period. The landowner still owns the property and retains full access, but has “leased” the trees and their associated riparian function to the state.

**Eligible Organizations**Landowners**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**First Come, First Served**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**4,900 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Natural Resources**Grant/Loan Program**Rivers and Habitat Open Space Program**Brief Program Description**Purchase of conservation easements from landowners with forested land located in a channel-migration zone (CMZ) and/or critical habitat for state-listed threatened or endangered species.

The two types of eligible land: 1) forestland habitat critical for state-listed threatened or endangered species (critical habitat), and 2) river habitat called unconfined CMZ, which are islands of timber within an actively shifting river channel.

**Eligible Organizations**Landowners**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**4,631 **New / Updated**New**Agency**Department of Natural Resources**Grant/Loan Program**Trust Land Transfer Program**Brief Program Description**Funds the purchase of replacement trust lands in order to enable the transfer of economically underperforming trust lands with high ecological values and public benefits to a receiving agency for the purpose of becoming parks or other open space areas.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, Public Utility Districts, State Agencies, Towns, Tribes**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**Legislatively-Approved List**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**16,900 **New / Updated****Agency**Department of Transportation**Grant/Loan Program**Aviation Revitalization Loans**Brief Program Description**A revolving loan program to assist public-use general aviation airports that may be publicly or privately owned, but are available for public use, and must have less than 75,000 annual commercial air service passenger enplanements as published by the Federal Aviation Administration.

Eligible projects can include hangars, fueling facilities, business parks on airport property, paid parking facilities, passenger amenities, and other revenue-generating or cost-cutting developments.

**Eligible Organizations**Other**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**5,000 **New / Updated****Agency**Public Schools**Grant/Loan Program**Agricultural Science in Schools Grant to FFA**Brief Program Description**Grants administered by the Future Farmers of America Foundation to furnish equipment for agricultural science instruction.

**Eligible Organizations**School Districts**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**5,150 **New / Updated****Agency**Public Schools**Grant/Loan Program**Career Preparation and Launch Equipment Grants**Brief Program Description**Competitive grants of no more than $200,000 for school districts to purchase and install career and technical education equipment that expands work-integrated learning opportunities.

**Eligible Organizations**School Districts**Application Window**October - December; odd years**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**4,000 **New / Updated****Agency**Public Schools**Grant/Loan Program**Healthy Kids, Healthy Schools Grants**Brief Program Description**Comprised of two separate grant programs: 1) Grants to school districts for the purchase of equipment or to make repairs to existing equipment that is related to improving children's physical health and nutrition and may not exceed $200,000 for any one school district; and 2) Grants to school districts, charter schools, and state-tribal education compact schools, for the replacement of lead-contaminated pipes and drinking water fixtures.

**Eligible Organizations**School Districts, Tribes**Application Window**October - December; odd years**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**13,000 **New / Updated****Agency**Public Schools**Grant/Loan Program**School Construction Assistance Program Grants**Brief Program Description**Grants to school districts to assist in construction and renovation of K-12 school facilities.

State assistance is formula-based.

**Eligible Organizations**School Districts**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**429,572 **New / Updated**New**Agency**Public Schools**Grant/Loan Program**School Dist Indoor Air Quality/Energy Efficiency**Brief Program Description**Grants to school districts for indoor air quality assessment, installation, repair, or replacement of HVAC, air filtration enhancements, and general air quality improvements that improve student health and safety.

**Eligible Organizations**School Districts**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**Other**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**17,500 **New / Updated****Agency**Public Schools**Grant/Loan Program**School District Health and Safety**Brief Program Description**Funds for the following grant types: (a) emergency grants for unexpected and imminent health and safety hazards at K–12 public schools, including Skill Centers, which will impact the day-to-day operations of the school facility; (b) nonrecurring urgent small repair grants at K-12 public schools, excluding skill centers, that could impact the health and safety of students and staff if not completed; and (c) equal access facilities grants for K-12 public schools, including skill centers.

**Eligible Organizations**School Districts**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**31,000 **New / Updated****Agency**Public Schools**Grant/Loan Program**School Seismic Safety Grant Program**Brief Program Description**Grant funding for schools in high seismic hazard areas, built before 1998 and not retrofitted to 2005 seismic standards.

**Eligible Organizations**School Districts, Tribes**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**151,451 **New / Updated****Agency**Public Schools**Grant/Loan Program**Small Distr/Tribal Compact Schools Modernization**Brief Program Description**Competitive construction and planning grants to small public school districts (enrollments of 1,000 or fewer) and state tribal compact schools to repair or replace significant building systems in K-12 school facilities.

Energy assessment grants are also available for small school districts meeting the enrollment eligibility threshold. Small district modernization grants for school districts may not exceed $6 million in total cost for the 2027-29 application cycle.

**Eligible Organizations**School Districts, Tribes**Application Window**July - September; odd years**Application Process Approval**Legislatively-Approved List**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**202,351 **New / Updated****Agency**Recreation and Conservation Office**Grant/Loan Program**Aquatic Lands Enhancement Account**Brief Program Description**Competitive grants for the purchase, improvement, or protection of aquatic lands for public purposes, and for providing and improving access to such lands.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, State Agencies, Towns, Tribes**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**Legislatively-Approved List**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**4,351 **New / Updated****Agency**Recreation and Conservation Office**Grant/Loan Program**Boating Facilities Program**Brief Program Description**Competitive grants for the acquisition, development, and planning of projects for motorized boating facilities, including launching ramps, guest moorage, and support facilities on freshwater and saltwater.

Funding is divided equally between state and local projects.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, Port Districts, Public Utility Districts, Special Purpose Districts, State Agencies, Towns, Tribes**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**13,618 **New / Updated****Agency**Recreation and Conservation Office**Grant/Loan Program**Boating Infrastructure Grant Program**Brief Program Description**Competitive federal grants to develop and renovate recreational guest boating facilities targeting boats 26 feet and longer.

Grants may also be used for boater education.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, For-Profit Organizations, Non-Profit Organizations, Port Districts, Public Utility Districts, Special Purpose Districts, State Agencies, Towns, Tribes**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**Federal Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**5,000 **New / Updated****Agency**Recreation and Conservation Office**Grant/Loan Program**Brian Abbott Fish Barrier Removal Board**Brief Program Description**Competitive grants to remove barriers to fish passage with the goal of restoring salmon and steelhead to healthy and harvestable levels.

The grant program is administered jointly by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Recreation and Conservation Office.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, Landowners, Non-Profit Organizations, Other, Port Districts, Special Purpose Districts, State Agencies, School Districts, Towns, Tribes**Application Window**October - December; odd years**Application Process Approval**Legislatively-Approved List**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**32,545 **New / Updated****Agency**Recreation and Conservation Office**Grant/Loan Program**Community Forest Grant Program**Brief Program Description**Competitive grants to help communities protect and enhance their surrounding forest lands through land acquisition, restoration, and development.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, Non-Profit Organizations, Other, Port Districts, Special Purpose Districts, State Agencies, Towns, Tribes**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**Legislatively-Approved List**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**6,248 **New / Updated****Agency**Recreation and Conservation Office**Grant/Loan Program**Estuary and Salmon Restoration Program**Brief Program Description**Competitive grants to protect and restore Puget Sound beaches, bays, and estuaries.

The grants focus on strategic, ecosystem restoration projects that align with regional recovery efforts in the Puget Sound Action Agenda. There are multiple deadline requirements for application. Please see program website for details.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, For-Profit Organizations, Federal Agencies, Higher Education Institutions, Non-Profit Organizations, Other, State Agencies, Towns, Tribes**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**Legislatively-Approved List**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**15,665 **New / Updated****Agency**Recreation and Conservation Office**Grant/Loan Program**Family Forest Fish Passage Program**Brief Program Description**Grants for small forest landowners to repair or remove fish passage barriers on their property.

Projects are prioritized based on: (a) the amount and quality of habitat opened; (b) the number of fish species benefited; (c) other upstream and downstream barriers; and (d) cost. The program is managed jointly with the Department of Natural Resources.

**Eligible Organizations**Landowners**Application Window**Rolling**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**7,904 **New / Updated****Agency**Recreation and Conservation Office**Grant/Loan Program**Firearms and Archery Range Recreation Program**Brief Program Description**Competitive grants to acquire, develop, and renovate public and private nonprofit firearm range and archery training/practice facilities.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, Non-Profit Organizations, Other, Special Purpose Districts, State Agencies, School Districts, Towns**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**645 **New / Updated****Agency**Recreation and Conservation Office**Grant/Loan Program**Land and Water Conservation Fund**Brief Program Description**Competitive federal grants for projects that acquire, preserve, develop, and provide access to outdoor recreation resources, including parks, trails, and wildlife lands.

There are two grant programs operating under the Land and Water Conservation Fund umbrella with different deadlines. Please see program website for details.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, Other, Special Purpose Districts, State Agencies, School Districts, Towns, Tribes**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**Federal Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**20,000 **New / Updated****Agency**Recreation and Conservation Office**Grant/Loan Program**Non-Highway Off-Road Vehicle Account**Brief Program Description**Competitive grants that provide funding to develop and manage recreation opportunities for such activities as cross-country skiing, hiking, horseback riding, mountain bicycling, hunting, fishing, sightseeing, motorcycling, and riding all-terrain and four-wheel drive vehicles.

A portion of the funding also is available for education and enforcement programs that encourage environmentally responsible use of the outdoors and for helping to minimize conflict between visitors.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, Federal Agencies, Non-Profit Organizations, Special Purpose Districts, State Agencies, Towns, Tribes**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**State Agency Award**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**12,174 **New / Updated****Agency**Recreation and Conservation Office**Grant/Loan Program**Puget Sound Acquisition and Restoration**Brief Program Description**Competitive grants to help implement habitat protection and restoration priorities for salmon recovery in Puget Sound.

The program is co-managed with the Puget Sound Partnership. Grants awarded on a two track process with multiple deadlines and in conjunction with the Salmon Recovery Funding Board process. Please see program website for details.

**Eligible Organizations**Cities, Counties, Landowners, Non-Profit Organizations, Other, Port Districts, Special Purpose Districts, State Agencies, School Districts, Towns, Tribes**Application Window**Other (see program website link)**Application Process Approval**Legislatively-Approved List**2025-27 Total Program Appropriation (dollars in thousands)**60,538 **New / Updated****Agency**Recreation and Conservation Office**Grant/Loan Program**Recreation Access/Equity**Brief Program Description**Planning for Recreation Access grants are for planning projects in communities that lack adequate access to outdoor recreation