Water and the Environment Grant Program

Water and the Environment Grant Program is sponsored by American Water Charitable Foundation. This program supports programs focused on clean water, conservation, environmental education, climate variability, and water-based recreation.

Water and Environment Grants For a better amwater. com online experience, please consider using one of the following browsers. American Water and the American Water Charitable Foundation (AWCF) are thrilled to announce the 2025 Water and Environment Grant Program.

Applications will be accepted in the following states served by American Water, in addition to its Military Service locations: California, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.

Grants will be awarded to help fund innovative, community-based projects that: improve, restore or protect the watersheds, surface water and/or groundwater supplies promote water conservation improve equitable access to water-based recreation in underserved communities Applicants must be classified as a 501(c)(3) public charity by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or K-12 public school, college or university.

Projects must be completed within 12 months of the grant being awarded Projects must be located within and benefit American Water’s service areas Applications must be received online between February 3 – March 7, 2025. Grant decisions will be announced by April 14. To apply online, please visit amwater.

com/awcfgrants or click the image below. Paper applications will not be accepted. Our commitment to protecting the environment runs deep and we’re proud to support the efforts of local organizations that share our vision.

Established in 2005, our annual Environmental Grant Program offers funding for innovative, community-based environmental projects that improve, restore or protect the watersheds, surface water and groundwater supplies in our local communities. We are pleased to offer assistance to community partners to help make a positive impact on the environment, and we encourage you to apply.

To qualify for Environmental Grant funding, a proposed project must be: Located within an American Water service area Completed between May and November of the grant funding year Be a new or innovative community initiative, or serve as significant expansion to an existing program. For more information, please see our 2023 Program Brochure and Grant Application Form The deadline to apply is March 31, 2023 .

The three recipients of Iowa American Water’s 2023 Environmental Grant Program were: Keep Scott County Beautiful/XStream Cleanup will be awarded a $4,500 grant to equip their volunteers with the “Tools for Success” -- Every year since 2004, Xstream cleanup (XC) has engaged and enabled volunteers from around the Quad Cities to help improve local watersheds.

For volunteers to do such important work, Xstream Cleanup provides garbage bags, tongs, safety vests, gloves, and incentives to the groups and individuals making our community a better place. Xstream Cleanup requested funds to purchase these supplies and continue to equip over 1,000 volunteers this cleanup season.

Nahant Marsh will be awarded a $4,000 grant for its Reforestation Project Phase II -- In 2022, Nahant Marsh worked with volunteers to plant over 1,500 trees. As part of the second phase of this project, an additional 500 trees and shrubs will be planted this year. This project is to replace trees that were lost by the 2019 floods, 2020 derecho, and emerald ash borer and create a more diverse forest.

Volunteers will also help remove trash in the one replanting area. River Action, Inc. will be awarded a $3,500 grant for its QC Flood Resiliency Through Public Education Program -- River Action is creating a FEMA advised multi-jurisdictional program for Public Information (PPI) for the QC Flood Resiliency Alliance. The organization has completed 15 first floor elevation surveys in Scott County.

We propose working with Davenport, Bettendorf, Moline, East Moline, Rock Island, Scott County and Rock Island County to advise citizens about flood hazards, insurance protection, and/or beneficial functions of floodplains in a PPI. As cities use the document, they will receive credits from FEMA they can pass on to policy holders.

Since the Iowa state environmental grant program began in Iowa in 2006, over $132,000 in grants have been awarded to local projects that improve, restore, and protect area watersheds. Entries in IA should be sent to: You are leaving a California American Water regulated operations page and proceeding to a page with information about our parent company, American Water and its affiliates.