The Montana Department of Natural Resources & Conservation is accepting applications for its Nonpoint Source Project Grants.
Donor Name: The Montana Department of Natural Resources & Conservation
State: Montana
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/30/2026
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The purpose of the Nonpoint Source (NPS) Grant Program is to provide financial assistance to projects which measurably preserve Montana’s water resources. Projects must improve water quality or water quantity, including stream flows and water storage in existing natural systems, such as riparian areas, floodplains, and wetlands.
Nonpoint Source Project Grants can fund on-the-ground projects that preserve water resources and provide benefits such as erosion reduction, water quality enhancement, and sediment reduction.
Funding Information
Maximum Grant Request: $50,000.
Eligible Projects
- Stormwater system retrofitting, such as the design and installation of new stormwater control technology.
- Stormwater reuse systems, such as rain gardens, rain barrels, constructed wetlands, vegetated swales, and filter strips designed to contain, treat and/or reuse stormwater that might otherwise carry pollutants to streams.
- Streambank stabilization, stream channel and in-stream habitat restoration.
- Wetland restoration, creation, or enhancement for the purpose of addressing NPS pollution.
- Revegetation, such as Planting, protecting or reestablishing permanent vegetative cover in riparian or upland areas with the goal of reducing NPS pollution. Practice may include, but is not limited to seeding, sprigging, shrub planting, fencing to protect emerging or fragile vegetation, willow lifts, sod mats, overseeding, non-native plant removal, native plant reintroduction, riparian buffer creation, and replacement of annual plants with perennial vegetation.
- Reestablishment of a stream’s floodplain or reconnection to an abandoned floodplain, with the purpose of addressing NPS pollution. Practice may also include breaching, removal, or modification of dikes, levees, road bases, or railroad grades to allow streams to access or reestablish a floodplain.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants include local government and non-government and/or private entities.
- Governmental entities include, but are not limited to:
- Cities
- Towns
- Counties
- Water and/or Sewer Districts
- Conservation Districts
- Irrigation Districts
- School Districts and Universities
- Regional Water Authorities
- State Agencies
- Tribal Government
For more information, visit DNRC.
