Federal grant programs / Department of the Interior

Invasive and Noxious Plant Management (15.230)

• Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$23.9 million
• Grant awards159
• Typical award$79,395
• Awarded in FY 2025$2.9 million
• Size rank1257 of 1824
• Type of assistanceCooperative agreements (discretionary grants), training

Key findings

• Annual funding fell from $4.9 million in fiscal 2021 to $2.9 million in fiscal 2025.
• It is the 1257th largest of 1,824 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
• The 20 largest recipients received 63% of the money.
• Awards went to recipients in 13 states and territories.

What the program funds

Invasive plants can dominate and often cause permanent damage to natural plant communities. If not eradicated or controlled, noxious weeds will continue to jeopardize the health of public lands and to constrain the myriad activities that occur on them. These reforms allow the Bureau to realign time and resources to completing important on–the-groundwork. To encourage interested State and local governments and Federal agencies to work together to inventory, manage, restore, educate, reduce the spread of, and prevent the further invasion and establishment of noxious, invasive weeds, and other invasive species. These entities will develop and implement Integrated Pest Management Plans (IMPs) to develop and implement projects that foster consultation and cooperation among stakeholders, interested parties, and the public and to organize, finalize, and develop projects to implement IPM plans for noxious weeds or invasive species within a specific geographic area.

From the federal Assistance Listing. Read the full listing on SAM.gov.

Open opportunities

No opportunity under this program is open or forecast on Grants.gov right now. Programs often post once a year, so the funding history below shows what to expect.

Rules from the program listing

What the money can and cannot pay for

Funds may be used on public, State county, and private lands for approved projects that prioritize and target undesirable plant species or group of species to be controlled or contained within a specific geographic area. Describe the integrated pest management system to be used to control or contain the targeted undesirable invasive species or groups of species; and detail the means of implementing the integrated pest management system, define the duties of the Federal agency and the State agency in prosecuting that method, and establish a timeframe for the initiation and completion of the tasks specified in the integrated management system.

Matching requirements

This program has no statutory formula. Matching requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing. MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

Award range and average, in the agency's words

Past partnership projects have run between $15,000 to $800,000. Average amounts run about $100,000 or less.

Examples of funded projects

Fiscal Year2025: Use Integrated Pest Management (IPM) to remove, suppress or reduce noxious weeds from BLM managed land, manage invasive exotic plants by developing and implementing effective classical biological weed control, and to provide information on changes to the plant community and recommend effective methods to monitor and prioritize noxious and invasive weed species management after controlling for encroaching conifers.Fiscal Year2026: Program has not yet selected projects for funding. Program anticipates funding projects that prevent, detect, inventory, control, and monitor weed populations on public lands.

Quoted from the program's federal Assistance Listing. The notice of funding opportunity is the official source for each competition's rules.

Who usually wins

State and local governments received 53% of the money, nonprofits 24% and colleges and universities 9.0%.

By state

7 states have a page for this program: those that received at least $1 million or 10 awards.

Award amounts are federal obligations reported to USAspending.gov for fiscal 2021 to 2025; see how our data works.