Grants & Opportunities

Find the right funding for your environmental project.

Three children smile while planting saplings in turned soil on a rainy day — Education and community grants put students in the dirt, not just the classroom.

Find your grant program

Answer three questions and we narrow two dozen programs down to the ones built for your project. Every program also appears in the full list below.

1. Who are you?

2. Where is your project?

3. What does your project do?

All Grant Programs

Every program links to its page on cbtrust.org. Dated deadlines come from the Trust's published schedule; where no date is shown, check the program page for the current cycle.

Education

Students gather for a hands-on watershed field lesson, examining specimens outdoors — A Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience in the field.

Environmental Education Grant Program See program page
Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEEs) for K-12 students and teachers.
Youth Environmental Education Mini Grant See program page
Smaller awards that get young people outdoors and into watershed learning.
Outdoor Learning Network Initiative See program page
Builds regional networks that make outdoor learning routine for whole school systems.

Restoration

Outreach and Restoration Grant Program Sep 3, 2026, 4:00 PM ET
The Trust's flagship program: on-the-ground restoration paired with community engagement.
Watershed Assistance Grant Program See program page
Design and planning support that gets restoration projects shovel-ready.
Urban Trees Program See program page
Tree planting in Maryland's historically underserved urban communities.
Nontidal Wetlands Program See program page
Restores and creates nontidal wetlands across Maryland watersheds.

Community Engagement

Veterans fish together from a boat on a funded outdoor outing, one hoisting a landing net — A Veterans Engagement outing on the water.

Keep Maryland Beautiful See program page
Litter removal, community greening, and civic pride projects statewide.
Veterans Engagement Mini Grant Program Rolling
Connects veterans with outdoor stewardship and restoration work.
Prince George's County Community Gardens Mini Grant Rolling
Creates and maintains community gardens in Prince George's County.
Charles County Tree Planting Program Rolling
Tree planting on public and community land in Charles County.
Capacity Building Initiative See program page
Strengthens the organizations doing watershed work, not just their projects.

Science

Students examine the contents of a sampling net at the water's edge — Field sampling on a funded monitoring project.

Chesapeake Oyster Innovation Award Program See program page
Advances oyster restoration and aquaculture innovation in the Bay.
Restoration Research Award Program See program page
Pooled-monitoring research that answers practitioners' restoration questions.

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