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2025 WMA Grant Program (WMAGP)

CA Department of Food and Agriculture · 85715

Eligibility details

Applicants should be an Eligible Weed Management Area

Matching funds & resources

Source matching-funds field: Not Required. Grant recipients utilizing cost share funds must report funds contributed to the project. Cost share is encouraged but not required. Cost Share funds are a portion of project costs not borne by the WMAGP.

Matching funds and leveraged resources are different requirements. Read the description and reviewed rules below before determining resource commitments.

About this opportunity

The CDFA has allocated $6 million for the WMA program (Food and Agriculture code 7271) and will fund one grant proposal per WMA, with a maximum award amount of $120,000 based on $40,000 per year for a total of 3 years. The maximum award amount has been set to ensure dispersal of funds in a variety of geographic locations that will result in measurable accomplishments. The minimum amount of funds that can be requested per WMA is $40,000 total over three years. The project term is three (3) years with a review period at the end of each twelve (12) months and grant funds cannot be expended before July 1, 2025, or after June 30, 2028. CDFA may offer an award differing from the amount requested.The 2025 WMAGP will support WMAs in California. A WMA is a local organization that brings together all interested landowners, land managers (private, city, county, state, and federal), special districts, and the public, in a county or other geographical area for the purpose of coordinating and combining their action and expertise to deal with their common weed control problems. The organization shall function under the authority of a mutually developed memorandum of understanding. A WMA may be voluntarily governed by a chairperson, steering committee, County Agricultural Office or Resource Conservation District. The project site must be located within the state of California. Applications must reflect work pertaining to implementation of controlling and/or mapping of noxious and invasive weed populations as defined in Food and Agricultural Code section 7270.5(b). In addition to plants on the Section 4500 Noxious Weed List allowable targeted species would include CDFA A and Q-rated as well as regionally important B-rated weeds.Cost-share is strongly encouraged but not required. Keywords: Noxious Weeds, Pest exclusion, Integrated Pest Control, Invasive plants

Funding geography: The project site must be located within the state of California, and related to the WMA's geographic location.

Funding instrument: Grant. Issuing jurisdiction: California. This is not a geographic eligibility determination.