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 is now open! 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. Plant Grant Awardees are eligible to visit the Wild Plant Nursery for seasonal, one-day Plant Grant Donation Day on Sunday, April 27th, 2025. 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.
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.
2025 applications due May 15.
https://www.fairfaxwater.org/grants
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 grants are due April 4, 2023 and are for locations within the Coastal Zone (meaning not Loudoun). No match is required and funds will be issued up front. Project categories include capacity building, green infrastructure practice(s) installation, shoreline protection practice installation, stewardship, and tree planting projects.
Bona Terra seedling grant program. They also do other seedling giveaways occasionally. Anne Arundel County, Maryland.