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2026 Department of Pesticide Regulation Sustainable Pest Management Grants Program

Grantor:
Department of Pesticide Regulation
Portal ID:
145458
Status:
Active
Opportunity Type:
  • Grant
Last Updated:
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Categories:

Details

Purpose:

To promote safer, more sustainable pest management practices in California, the Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) annually funds projects that advance sustainable pest management (SPM) practices through integrated pest management (IPM) research, knowledge, tools, outreach, and implementation in agricultural, urban, or wildland settings.

Description:

DPR's SPM Grants Program supports projects that advance sustainable pest management practices through IPM research, knowledge, tools, outreach, and implementation in agricultural, urban, or wildland settings. Projects should focus on reducing impacts to human health or the environment from pesticides of high regulatory interest.

The 2026 SPM Grants Program is particularly seeking proposal applications that also address one or more of the following priority topic areas:

         Weed management

         Rodenticide use

         Fumigant use

         Use of pesticides that are of high regulatory interest (based on DPR’s Pesticide Use Reporting data) or are present on DPR’s Continuous Evaluation and Mitigation Update report

         Two or more of the three sustainability pillars in the SPM Roadmap:

                 Human Health and Social Equity

                 Environmental Protections

                 Economic Vitality

This year, DPR invites projects with budgets ranging from $50,000 to $1,000,000 to apply. Applicants may include (but are not limited to) entities such as government and tribal agencies, universities, colleges, consultants, pest control businesses, commodity groups, and nonprofit organizations.

For information about the application, review, and notification processes, please visit the SPM Grants webpage.

Principal investigators may submit a maximum of two proposals per year. Pest Management Advisory Committee (PMAC) members may apply, but they must follow the rules regarding conflict of interest in the PMAC Charter. All applicants and associated project personnel must meet DPR’s eligibility requirements that can be found in the 2026 SPM Grants Solicitation.

For examples of past funded projects, please visit our funded Alliance Grants and funded Research Grants webpages.

Keywords: Agriculture, Agricultural Commodity, Agricultural Crops, Agronomy, Air Quality, Automation, Bacteria, Bactericide, Climate Change, Community Health, Cover Crops, Cropping System, Crops, Ecology, Ecosystem, Emissions, Fauna, Fertility, Field Sanitation, Flora, Fruits, Fumigant, Fungi, Fungicide, Herbicide, Horticulture, Housing, Insect Pests, Insecticide, Integrated Pest Management, Irrigation, Lakes, Land Management, Laws and Regulations, Machinery, Mating Disruption, Miticide, Natural Enemies, Nuts, Oceans, Pathogens, Personal Protective Equipment, Pest, Pest Management , Pesticide, Pesticide Use, Plant Disease, Plant Protection, Pollinator, Pollution, Reduced-Risk, Rivers, Rodenticide, Soil Health, Streams, Sustainable, Training, Urban Pest Management, Vegetables, Vertebrate Pests, Virus, Volatile Organic Compounds, Water, Water Quality, Watershed, Weeds, Wildlands, Worker Health and Safety

Eligibility Requirements

Eligible Applicants:

  • Business
  • Individual
  • Nonprofit
  • Other Legal Entity
  • Public Agency
  • Tribal Government

Applicants must meet all the eligibility requirements in the 2026 SPM Grants Solicitation.

Eligible Geographies:

Work may be conducted outside of California, but justification must be provided as part of the response to Question 1 of the proposal application, and projects must primarily benefit the people of California. Travel outside the state of California is not reimbursable.

Matching Funding Requirement:

Matched funding is not allowed. Projects must not depend on other sources of funding for the completion of any task or deliverable. However, in-kind contributions of personnel time, equipment, facilities, and materials by project team members are allowed.

Important Dates

The date (and time, where applicable) by which all applications must be submitted to the grantmaker. Time listed as “00:00” equates to midnight.
The date on which the grantor expects to announce the recipient(s) of the grant.
Spring 2026
The length of time during which the grant money must be utilized.
3 years

Funding Details

The total projected dollar amount of the grant.
$4,900,000
A single grant opportunity may represent one or many awards. Some grantors may know in advance the exact number of awards to be given. Others may indicate a range. Some may wish to and wait until the application period closes before determining how many awards to offer; in this case, a value of “Dependent” will display.
5 – 25
Grant opportunities representing multiple awards may offer awards in the same amount or in varied amounts. Some may wish to wait until the application period closes before determining per-award amounts; in this case, a value of “Dependent” will display.
$50,000 – $1,000,000
Certain grants require that the recipient(s) provide a letter of intent.
No
Certain grants require that the recipient(s) be able to fully or partially match the grant award amount with another funding source.
No
The funding source allocated to fund the grant. It may be either State or Federal (or a combination of both), and be tied to a specific piece of legislation, a proposition, or a bond number.
  • State

Funding Source Notes:

Funding is from the DPR Fund.

The manner in which the grant funding will be delivered to the awardee. Funding methods include reimbursements (where the recipient spends out-of-pocket and is reimbursed by the grantor) and advances (where the recipient spends received grant funds directly).
  • Advances & Reimbursement(s)

Funding Method Notes:

10% of funds are held until grant close. Once final invoices are approved by DPR, this 10% retention is released. 

How to Apply

State agencies/departments recommend you read the full grant guidelines before applying.

Resources

For questions about this grant, contact:
Jordan Weibel, 1-916-445-0430, SPMGrants@cdpr.ca.gov

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