Types of Grants

The Chesapeake Bay Trust has ten individual grant programs that are available.  Each has its own specific criteria, as well as application institutions and procedures.  You can review any of the Trust’s grant programs below.

Mini Grants Program: Grants up to $5,000
Restoration: Grants up to $50,000
Outreach & Community Awareness: Grants requests of $5,001- $20,000
Environmental Education Grant Program:  Grants up to $35,000
Urban Greening Grant Program: Grants up to $35,000
Pioneer Grant Program: Program under development
Living Shorelines Grant Program: Variable Awards
Fisheries Grant Program: Grants up to $35,000
Capacity Building Grant ProgramVariable Awards
Watershed Assistance Grant Program: Grants up to $25,000

Chesapeake Bay Trust Grant Forms 

Recently Funded Grants: 

Grantee

County

Award Amount

Grant Program

Alice Ferguson Foundation

Prince Georges

$10,840.00

Environmental Education

Alice Ferguson Foundation

Prince Georges

$10,000.00

Stewardship

Anacostia Watershed Society

Prince Georges

$9,790.00

Environmental Education

Annapolis High School

Anne Arundel

$640.00

Mini Grant

Anne Arundel Community College

Anne Arundel

$24,354.00

Stewardship

Arlington Echo Outdoor Education Center

Anne Arundel

$31,766.00

Environmental Education

Arlington Echo Outdoor Education Center

Anne Arundel

$14,790.00

Environmental Education

Armistead Gardens Elementary/Middle School

Baltimore City

$220.00

Mini Grant

Audubon Maryland - DC

Baltimore City

$16,504.00

Environmental Education

Baltimore County Forest Conservancy District Board

Baltimore

$9,620.00

Environmental Education

Baltimore County Public Schools

Baltimore

$6,867.00

Environmental Education

Baltimore Harbor Watershed Association

Baltimore City

$8,500.00

Stewardship

Baltimore Medical System, Inc.

Baltimore City

$30,000.00

Stewardship

Beaver Creek Watershed Association

Washington

$22,500.00

Mini $1 - $5,000

Bittersweet Community Association

Anne Arundel

$17,500.00

Fisheries

Boy Scouts of America, Baltimore Area Council

Carroll

$18,000.00

Stewardship

Capital Area Resource Conservation and Development Council, Inc.

 

$76,000.00

Agriculture

Carroll County Outdoor School

Carroll

$3,790.00

Environmental Education

Carroll County Public Schools

Carroll

$34,790.00

Environmental Education

Chesapeake Bay Foundation

Washington

$22,294.00

Stewardship

Chesapeake Bay Foundation

Western Maryland

$143,000.00

Agriculture

Chesapeake Media Service, Inc.

Statewide

$10,000.00

Stewardship

Clear Spring High School

Washington

$200.00

Mini Grant

Delmarva Discovery Center c/o Pocomoke Marketing Partnership

Worcester

$10,250.00

Stewardship

Ellicott Mills Middle School

Howard

$4,586.00

Mini Grant

Environmental Concern Inc.

Talbot

$9,790.00

Environmental Education

Environmental Defense Fund

 

$177,500.00

Agriculture

Featherbed Lane Elementary School

Baltimore

$2,000.00

Mini Grant

Friends of Deep Creek Lake

Garrett

$26,000.00

Stewardship

Friends of Sligo Creek

Montgomery

$8,000.00

Stewardship

Gilpin Manor Elementary School

Cecil

$2,400.00

Mini Grant

Herring Run Watershed Association

Baltimore

$17,842.00

Stewardship

Howard County Conservancy, Inc.

Howard

$31,790.00

Environmental Education

Howard County Public Schools

Howard

$7,790.00

Environmental Education

Irvine Nature Center

Baltimore City

$14,790.00

Environmental Education

J. C. Parks Elementary School

Charles

$899.00

Mini Grant

Jones Falls Watershed Association

Baltimore City

$15,860.00

Stewardship

Lancaster County Conservation District

 

$61,000.00

Agriculture

Maryland Association of Forest Conservancy District Boards

Statewide

$10,000.00

Stewardship

Maryland Coastal Bays Program / Maryland Coastal Bays Foundation

Worcester

$11,000.00

Stewardship

Maryland DNR

Baltimore

$25,000.00

Stewardship

Maryland DNR - State Forest and Parks Tuckahoe State Park

Queen Annes

$2,400.00

Mini Grant

Maryland DNR - Tidewater Administration

Anne Arundel

$4,970.00

Mini Grant

Maryland Public Television

Baltimore

$12,000.00

Stewardship

Master Gardeners, Maryland Cooperative Extension Howard County

Howard

$10,704.00

Environmental Education

Monocacy Middle School

Frederick

$1,339.00

Mini Grant

Mt. Harmony Elementary School

Calvert

$2,600.00

Mini Grant

Nanticoke Watershed Alliance

Wicomico

$10,250.00

Stewardship

National Aquarium in Baltimore

Kent

$10,000.00

Fisheries

Neighborhood Design Center

Prince Georges

$14,000.00

Stewardship

New Town High School

Baltimore

$823.00

Mini Grant

Parks & People Foundation

Baltimore

$30,588.00

Environmental Education

Parks & People Foundation

Baltimore City

$8,000.00

Stewardship

Pickering Creek Environmental Center

Talbot

$21,823.00

Environmental Education

River Network

Talbot

$5,000.00

Mini Grant

Shenandoah Resource Conservation and Development Council

 

$65,018.00

Agriculture

St. Michael's High School / St. Michael's Middle/High School

Talbot

$1,875.00

Mini Grant

Summer Days Math and Science Camp for Girls

Kent

$2,050.00

Mini Grant

Travilah Elementary School

Montgomery

$1,631.00

Mini Grant

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES)

Garrett

$13,635.00

Environmental Education

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES)

Dorchester

$5,000.00

Stewardship

University of Maryland College Park Foundation

Prince Georges

$10,000.00

Stewardship

Volunteer Frederick

Frederick

$10,000.00

Stewardship

Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission

Prince Georges

$1,022.00

Mini Grant

Western School of Technology & Environmental Science

Baltimore

$1,614.00

Mini Grant

  • Mini Grants - Accepted Year Round

    Urban Greening - July 17, 2009

    Living Shoreline - September 4, 2009

    Grant Forms:
    Click here to access all Chesapeake Bay Trust Grant Forms