The Puget Sound Stewardship and Mitigation Fund’s goal is to mitigate past pollution runoff by supporting community-based efforts to protect or improve the water quality of Puget Sound.
Donor Name: Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment
State: Washington
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/26/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Priority Areas
- The Rose Foundation has a strong preference towards supporting locally-based, community-led projects. If your organization is statewide or national in scope, or has a large multi-million-dollar budget, they encourage you to partner with a locally-based group in your proposal.
- Applications from environmental justice-oriented organizations are highly encouraged.
- Projects that involve impacted communities and are centered around principles of equity will be given preference.
Funding Information
The maximum grant amount is $40,000.
Examples of Allowable Projects
- Water Quality Monitoring & Testing
- Watershed Restoration
- Green Stormwater Infrastructure Projects
- Emerging Toxic & Chemical Threats
- Community Leadership & Capacity Building.
Eligibility Criteria
- The applicant must be a 501(c)3 organization, fiscally sponsored by a 501(c)3, or a governmental or tribal entity. Nonprofit colleges, universities, university clinics and graduate programs are eligible to apply, but university overhead is limited to 5% of grant award.
- The applicant must demonstrate the capacity to complete the proposed project, including experience in successfully conducting similar or otherwise related work in the past.
Ineligibility Criteria
The following activities or types of projects will not be funded:
- Endowment, land acquisition, capital improvement (unless proposed project directly improves water quality) or other similar projects.
- Grants to individuals.
- Grants to for-profit businesses.
- Grants for general operating support.
- Grants for projects in waters that are not listed in the geographic scope.
For more information, visit Rose Foundation.
