Winter 2027 Open Solicitation Grant Offering is Now Open

The Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board (OWEB) is now accepting online applications for the Winter 2027 Open Solicitation Grant Offering.

These grants support voluntary efforts by Oregonians to protect and restore healthy watersheds, including actions supporting the Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds and the Oregon Wildlife Action Plan.

Open Solicitation grant funds are available for restoration projects that protect or restore fish and wildlife habitat and/or natural watershed functions, to improve water quality and/or streamflow. Grant funds may also be used for resource assessments, planning, design and engineering, technical assistance, and engagement activities needed to carry out projects that protect or restore fish and wildlife habitat or natural watershed functions, including improvements to water quality and streamflow.

The Winter 2027 Open Solicitation Grant Offering includes the following grant types:

• Restoration (25% match is required)
• Technical Assistance (5% match is required)
• Engagement (5% match is required)

Available Funding

The OWEB board will adopt a spending plan in July 2027 that includes funds for these grants. Recent solicitations have had over $15 million available for Open Solicitation grant offerings.

 

Eligible Applicants

A grant applicant may be any tribe, watershed council, soil and water conservation district, not-for-profit corporation, school, Oregon institution of higher education, independent not-for-profit institution of higher education, or political subdivision of this state that is not a state agency. A state agency or federal agency may partner with an eligible entity.

How to Apply

Grant applications are DUE by 5 pm on February 1, 2027, and must be submitted via OWEB's online grant application. The OWEB Board plans to make grant awards at the July 2027 meeting.

Please click on the links to the grant type of interest (above) for application requirements and login information. If you already have an Online Application login, you may access the application directly.

The online application was recently updated, which will impact cloning previously submitted applications. Applicants are discouraged from using the cloning function. If cloning is necessary, applicants need to check answers carefully and edit them to specifically respond to revised application questions.