The IFNF grant program seeks to:

• Leverage private and public capital other than USFS appropriations to support agency priorities.
• Deliver measurable social, ecological, and financial outcomes to multiple stakeholders.
• Demonstrate solutions that promise improved financial sustainability for land management.
• Chart a path to scale in addressing landscape-level challenges on and near National Forests.
• Generate lessons learned to incorporate in agency management and decision making.

IFNF grants could, but are not limited to, support of innovative finance models that:

• Enable debt or equity financing from public or private sources to pay for upfront project costs that will be paid back over time by project beneficiaries (payors).
• Access new or existing markets for environmental goods or services.
• Access user-based fees or contributions.
• Increase pace and scale of implementation by blending multiple sources of funding or finance.
• Employ any combination of the approaches listed above. 

The 2023 IFNF grant program emphasizes three Focus Areas:

1. Watershed health
2. Sustainable recreation infrastructure and access
3. Wildfire resilience and recovery

For more information on focus areas, see p. 4 of the RFP in Supporting Documents below.

For information on project types, see p. 5 of the RFP in Supporting Documents below.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Eligibility Criteria" for clarification)

Estimated Total Program Funding: