Grants, Discounts, and Freebies
For tree seedling sales and giveaways - click here
Tree-specific grant programs - click here
Virginia Conservation Assistance Program
Click here to see the reimbursement rates.
Funding is available for homeowners and faith communities, HOAs, civic groups, etc.
Fairfax County: Click here. (Summer application period for individual homeowners, rolling for institutions such as HOAs and faith communities.)
Loudoun County: Click here.
Prince William: https://www.pwswcd.org/vcap
City of Alexandria - contact Melanie Mason, Stormwater Management melanie.mason@alexandriava.gov
Earth Sangha Plant Grants
The Earth Sangha's Spring Plant Grant Application usually opens in late March or early April. The Earth Sangha's Plant Grant program is designed to reach grassroots, restoration projects that have no or limited funds and would otherwise not be able to engage in restoration. Those eligible to apply include public parks owned by a government agency, non-profits, places of worship, schools, libraries, and HOAs. Plant Grant Awardees are eligible to visit the Wild Plant Nursery for seasonal, one-day Plant Grant Donation Day. Please see www.earthsangha.org/plant-grant for details and application.
School/Scout Pollinator Plant Kits from Watermark Woods
Occoquan reservoir shoreline stabilization grants
For properties immediately contiguous to the Occoquan. Available to individual property owners and homeowners associations.
Grant Process Timeline
February: Applications open
May 15: Applications due
July: Fairfax Water Board Considers Applications
August: Grant Recipients are Announced
Free Milkweed for large-scale (two acres or more) restoration projects
Free Milkweed Available to Parks, Federal, State, County or City agencies, Businesses, Schools, Scout groups, Private organizations or individuals. Monarch Watch and partner nurseries award grants in February and March. Learn more and apply here.
Water Supply Stakeholder Grant Program
Up to $10,000. Education projects and watershed protection projects. The project must address issues within areas served by Fairfax Water or watersheds lying in Fairfax, Loudoun, Prince William, or Fauquier Counties.
Eligible organizations include local and state government, education and environmental agencies, Homeowners associations, civic groups, and not-for-profit organizations. https://www.fairfaxwater.org/grants
Grant Process Timeline
February: Applications open
May 15: Applications due
July: Fairfax Water Board Considers Applications
August: Grant Recipients are Announced
Chesapeake Bay Restoration Fund
Grants funded by the Chesapeake Bay license plates.
2024 applications were due Sept 25.
http://dls.virginia.gov/commissions/cbr.htm?x=fnd
For Fairfax County Park properties: Mastenbook matching grant program
Does your community live next to a park and want to see invasive plants removed? Apply for a matching grant.
Coastal Resilience and Trees Fund
Suspended in 2025. New grants announced when available.
The Virginia Outdoors Foundation and Wetlands Watch are suspending the Coastal Resilience and Trees Fund for fiscal year 2025, with no grant rounds planned during this period.
Launched in 2023, the Fund aims to support small-scale resilience projects and capacity-building initiatives within Virginia’s Coastal Zone. It is financed through a recordation fee on real estate transactions in localities where VOF holds open-space easements. Unfortunately, current revenue levels are insufficient to sustain the Fund at this time. The program will remain on hold until revenues improve or an alternative funding source is identified. We are proud to have funded 36 projects, amounting to $321,000 to date. All previously committed grants will of course be honored.
We will announce any updates pertaining to the next grant cycle just as soon as we can.
Bona Terra seedling grant program. They also do other seedling giveaways occasionally. Anne Arundel County, Maryland.