WHALE TAIL® Grant

Return to Search WHALE TAIL® Grant Grantor: Coastal Commission Portal ID: 151083 Status: Closed Opportunity Type: Grant Last Updated: October 10, 2025, 10:53 am | View change notes Categories: Disadvantaged Communities Education Environment & Water Details Purpose: WHALE TAIL® Grants help people connect to the California coast and its watersheds through experiential education, stewardship, and outdoor experiences. WHALE TAIL® Grants focus on engaging communities that face barriers accessing marine education and stewardship opportunities, and can engage participants of any age anywhere in California. Description: Projects must engage communities in California and include education about coastal and marine environments. This may include classroom-based programs, field trips, climate change education and stewardship, coastal habitat restoration or shoreline cleanup programs with community involvement, community or participatory science, cultural and ancestral practice preservation, workforce development, and much more. We strongly encourage projects engaging communities that face barriers accessing coastal and marine education and stewardship. We also look for applicant organizations based in and composed of the communities they are engaging. We strive for a broad geographic distribution of projects across California. Interested parties complete and submit a full application by the deadline. Grants up to $50,000 may be awarded. We anticipate $2,000,000 will be distributed with approximately half dedicated through a tribal set-aside to projects led by California Native American tribes, tribally-led entities, and organizations engaging California Native American tribal communities. At least 25% of projects funded outside of the tribal set-aside will be small grants up to $25,000. Proposals are due December 15, 2025. Eligibility Requirements Eligible Applicants: Nonprofit Public Agency Tribal Government Eligible applicants are non-profit 501(c)(3) organizations, projects