Deadline: December 1, 2025
Award Amount: Up to $800,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Education, and Nonprofits
Description: This Notice of Funding Opportunity is intended to support novel environmental health research in which an unpredictable event or policy change provides a limited window of opportunity to collect human biological samples or environmental exposure data. The primary motivation of the NOFO is to understand the consequences of natural and human-made disasters, emerging environmental public health threats, and policy changes in the U.S. and abroad.

Deadline: December 12, 2025
Award Amount: $100,000 to $1,500,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal
Description: The Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) grant program supports local waste management authorities in enhancing recycling infrastructure. It aims to improve the collection, processing, and marketing of recyclable materials, thereby increasing recycling rates and reducing contamination. Eligible projects may include the development or expansion of recycling facilities, equipment upgrades, and public education initiatives.

Deadline: December 31, 2025
Award Amount: Up to $1,000,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Environment, Education, State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Nonprofits, Business
Description: Supports projects that restore aquatic habitats and improve fish passage by removing or modifying barriers, enhancing species access to critical habitats and promoting fish population conservation.

Deadline: December 31, 2025
Award Amount: Up to $750 for virtual or in-classroom experiences; up to $2,000 for in-park experiences.
Match: None
Eligible Entities: K-12 Education
Description: Supports research and educational initiatives that enhance the management, preservation, and interpretation of National Park Service (NPS) resources. These grants fund scholarly research across various disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, ecology, history, and more, within WNPA-affiliated parks. Projects must originate in one of the 70+ partner parks across 12 Western states, including New Mexico.

Deadline: January 15, 2026
Award Amount: $5,000 to $10,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Nonprofits
Description: Supports the development, maintenance, and stewardship of trails. Funding can help address the shortfall in Phase One trail construction, expand outdoor recreation infrastructure, and build long-term capacity for trail maintenance and volunteer training. This opportunity directly advances the county’s goal of expanding access to safe, high-quality trails that connect residents to outdoor recreation, improve quality of life, and strengthen community health.

Deadline: March 1, 2026
Award Amount: Up to $10,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Nonprofits and State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments
Description: Supports nonprofit organizations and local riding clubs in their efforts to promote safe and responsible off-road recreation. The program provides funding for trail development and maintenance, safety education initiatives, and environmental stewardship projects.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Unspecified
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Higher Education and Nonprofits
Description: The Structure and Physics of the Solid Earth Program (SPSE) aims to advance fundamental knowledge about the ongoing dynamical processes over the age of the Earth that evolve the structure of planet Earth and underpin geohazards. SPSE supports research at all temporal and spatial scales, from the Earth’s core to its crust. Through laboratory, field, theoretical, and computational studies, the program encompasses a wide range of disciplines including structural geology, tectonics, and geophysics.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Unspecified
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Higher Education, Environment, and Nonprofits
Description: The Water, Landscape, and Critical Zone Processes program supports research on the Earth’s near-surface environment and how that environment responds to change. The Program focuses on the complex interplay amongst and between hydrologic, geomorphic, and geochemical processes and how they regulate the structure and function of the Earth’s near surface. These processes drive weathering and soil development, control water availability and quality, and help regulate the Earth’s climate system, all of which are important for natural resource sustainability and mitigation of natural hazards. It is expected that the research funded in this program will advance fundamental knowledge in Earth surface processes, leading to transformational discoveries in Earth Sciences.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Unspecified
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education, Nonprofits, and Small Businesses
Description: The Life and Environments Through Time (LET) program supports research that advances knowledge about the patterns and processes relating to the origin and evolution of Earth’s climate, environments, life, and sedimentary record. This research takes place at the molecular, local, regional, and global scales from the Archean Eon through the Holocene epoch. LET-supported research can be useful for predicting and planning for future global change, and for the maintenance and security of ecosystem services and human societies

Deadline: Rolling until grant funding unavailable.
Award Amount: $5,000 to $5,000,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Higher Education and Nonprofits
Description: The Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) Core supports research and training on evolutionary and ecological processes acting at the level of populations, species, communities, ecosystems, macrosystems, and biogeographic extents. DEB encourages research that elucidates fundamental principles that identify and explain the unity and diversity of life and its interactions with the environment over space and time.

Research may incorporate field, laboratory, or collection-based approaches; observational or manipulative studies; synthesis activities; phylogenetic discovery projects; or theoretical approaches involving analytical, statistical, or computational modeling. Proposals should be submitted to the core clusters (Ecosystem Science, Evolutionary Processes, Population and Community Ecology, and Systematics and Biodiversity Science).

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Unspecified amount
Match: None
Eligible Entities: K-12 Education, Higher Education, and organizations seeking to promote energy efficiency, the environment, and economic development.
Description: Continental Divide aims to serve the following counties in New Mexico: Bernalillo County, Cibola County, McKinley County, Sandoval County, Valencia County.

Continental Divide aims to support organizations that: Promote the efficient use of energy, such as weatherization or toward the planning, development or building of a renewable energy source, promote projects or activities that benefit the environment, promote projects or activities that create economic development, and/or projects or activities that benefit students in grades K-12 or students enrolled at an accredited New Mexico college or university within Continental Divide’s service territory.

Deadline: Rolling: July 1, February 1
Award Amount: Unspecified
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Nonprofits
Description: NEF invites applications for innovative projects with the potential to enhance life on the planet, brighten the future, and advance peace. To that end, the foundation will award grants in support of pioneering yet practical projects in many endeavors, including but not limited to environmental initiatives that are working to eliminate pollution and save the planet’s ecosystems, community efforts that create models of social sustainability, educational innovations that prepare youth to become the socially responsible leaders, and strategies that offer economic improvement and opportunities. The foundation particularly seeks projects with the potential to be replicated so excellent ideas and work can multiply and benefit many.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Dependent upon project.
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Nonprofits, Community Water Systems
Description: With the increase in demand and federal requirements for the DWSRF, The State of New Mexico will continue to choose the projects to fulfill the federal equivalency requirements. Additionally, the schedule by which the priority lists will be published will remain semi‐annual. Lists are produced in December and May with supplemental lists published in September and February if project interest and urgency exist. Criteria for project interest and urgency are included in this IUP to clarify when the supplemental lists will be produced. Project priority ranking criteria for emerging contaminants were updated to reflect increased value on providing water service to underserved communities or where wells are contaminated by emerging contaminants.