# Performance Partnership Grants (66.605)

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Performance Partnership Grants is run by Environmental Protection Agency. From fiscal 2021 to 2025 it awarded $2.5 billion in 802 grants, about $3.1 million per award.

## Objectives

Fostering EPA’s partnership with states and Tribes is critical to accelerating environmental outcomes. Performance Partnership Grants (PPGs) are the cornerstone of the National Environmental Performance Partnership System (NEPPS), which aims to strengthen partnerships and build a results-based management system. PPGs allow states and Tribes to combine eligible categorical State and Tribal Assistance Grants (STAG) into a single grant with a single budget and work plan.
EPA's overarching goal is to optimize the leveraging power of PPGs to focus strategically on the joint priorities of EPA and recipients in order to achieve environmental outcomes. Key objectives of NEPPS and PPGs are: (1) strengthen partnerships between EPA and recipients through joint planning, priority setting, and efficient and effective management of resources; (2) provide states, and Tribes with flexibility to direct resources where they are needed to address environmental and public health priorities; (3) link program activities more effectively with environmental and public health goals and environmental outcomes; (4) support cross-media approaches and initiatives; and (5) reduce administrative burdens and transaction costs. Through one consolidated work plan, states and Tribes can efficiently manage anticipated environmental outcomes of their PPGs.

## Funding by fiscal year

| Year | Amount | Awards |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | $496 million | 344 |
| 2022 | $478 million | 328 |
| 2023 | $525 million | 361 |
| 2024 | $499 million | 357 |
| 2025 | $463 million | 320 |

## Largest recipients

| Recipient | State | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Texas Commission on Environmental Quality | Texas | $154 million |
| New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection | New Jersey | $96.6 million |
| Illinois Environmental Protection Agency | Illinois | $93.4 million |
| Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | Wisconsin | $88.4 million |
| Florida Department of Environmental Protection | Florida | $78.8 million |
| Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection | Massachusetts | $71.4 million |
| Department of Natural Resources | Georgia | $63.5 million |
| AL Department Environmental Management | Alabama | $62.3 million |
| Missouri Department of Natural R | Missouri | $62.3 million |
| Minnesota Pollution Control Agency | Minnesota | $58.9 million |
| Environmental Management, Indiana Department of. | Indiana | $58.4 million |
| Department of Environmental Conservation New York | New York | $58.3 million |
| Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy | Michigan | $56.0 million |
| Virginia Department of Environmental Quality | Virginia | $54.7 million |
| Dept of Energy & Environmental Protection | Connecticut | $51.4 million |
| Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment | Colorado | $51.0 million |
| Energy & Environment Cabinet | Kentucky | $50.7 million |
| LA Department of Environmental Quality | Louisiana | $47.6 million |
| The Environment Maryland Department of | Maryland | $46.5 million |
| Arizona Department of Environmental Quality DBA: Adeq | Arizona | $45.4 million |