Federal grants to River Partners
River Partners in Chico, California received $18.4 million in federal grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, across 15 awards. Its largest program was Central Valley Improvement Act, Title XXXIV, with $10.0 million. In fiscal 2025 it was awarded $3.2 million.
From USAspending.gov award records, updated October 31, 2026.
- Grants, FY 2021 to 2025$18.4 million
- Awards15
- Awarded in FY 2025$3.2 million
- Largest award$10.0 million
By year
| Fiscal year | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY 2021 | 3 | $669,950 |
| FY 2022 | 3 | $4.2 million |
| FY 2023 | 5 | $4.7 million |
| FY 2024 | 5 | $5.7 million |
| FY 2025 | 6 | $3.2 million |
Programs that fund River Partners
| Program | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Central Valley Improvement Act, Title XXXIV | 1 | $10.0 million |
| Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CVPIA) | 4 | $4.7 million |
| Plant Conservation and Restoration Management | 3 | $1.6 million |
| Natural Resource Stewardship | 2 | $1.0 million |
| Central Valley Project Conservation | 1 | $480,000 |
| Partners for Fish and Wildlife | 1 | $375,000 |
| Habitat Conservation | 1 | $94,078 |
| International Forestry Programs | 1 | $50,000 |
| Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act | 1 | $26,299 |
Awarding agencies
| Agency | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Department of the Interior | 13 | $18.3 million |
| Department of Commerce | 1 | $94,078 |
| Department of Agriculture | 1 | $50,000 |
Largest awards
| Award | Program | First action | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Purpose: this project contributes to the maintenance and improvement of fish habitat with a goal of increasing populations of chinook salmon and steelhead trout by replenishing spawning gravel and improving rearing habitat in the upper sacramento river. It will address factors limiting fish popul | Central Valley Improvement Act, Title XXXIV | March 23, 2022 | $10.0 million |
| River partners proposes to (1) permanently conserve 358 acres of agricultural floodplains currently disconnected from the sacramento river (2) complete planning, design, stakeholder engagement, and permitting for habitat restoration at three project sites (3) construct new seasonally inundated habit | Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CVPIA) | August 30, 2023 | $2.6 million |
| This proposal describes river partners approach for improving salmon and steelhead juvenile rearing habitat through creation and restoration of up to five miles of side channels on the lower feather river where such habitat is very limited.this project will create new side channel areas at two (2) i | Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CVPIA) | September 8, 2023 | $1.4 million |
| Purpose of award: public lands contain a diversity of native plant communities and department of interior doi units in California contain a wide array of species and protect some of the most iconic landscapes in the country. The goal is to increase the quantity diversity and effectiveness of native f | Natural Resource Stewardship | August 15, 2024 | $961,656 |
| California native seed and plant amplification project | Plant Conservation and Restoration Management | September 15, 2023 | $724,619 |
| Alkali scrub and bakersfield cactus habitat enhancement at panorama vista preserve | Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CVPIA) | June 29, 2021 | $525,872 |
| Award purpose activities to be performed the cosumnes river watershed seed amplification project will make local seeds to help restore nature in the cosumnes river area. Heritage growers is a nonprofit that provides native seeds and plants in California and wants to help the states natural areas. Th | Plant Conservation and Restoration Management | January 10, 2025 | $499,740 |
| River partners requested funding from the central valley project improvement act habitatrestoration program to support the restoration of 400 acres of riparian habitat to benefit federallythreatened yellow-billed cuckoo ( coccyzus americanus occidentalis) and valley elderberrylonghorn beetle (desmoc | Central Valley Project Conservation | August 16, 2024 | $480,000 |
| Battle creek seed amplification and restoration project | Plant Conservation and Restoration Management | August 3, 2022 | $390,000 |
| The U.S. Fish and wildlife services partners for fish and wildlife program (PFW), a program of the national wildlife refuge system, generally provides habitat restoration assistance on private lands and technical assistance on a variety of other restoration related practices. Habitat restoration dep | Partners for Fish and Wildlife | December 12, 2024 | $375,000 |
Questions people ask
How much federal grant money does River Partners get?
$18.4 million in 15 grant awards from fiscal 2021 to 2025, as obligations reported to USAspending.gov.
Which agency gives River Partners the most?
The Department of the Interior, with $18.3 million in 13 awards. The Department of Commerce and the Department of Agriculture follow.
What is River Partners's largest federal grant?
$10.0 million under Central Valley Improvement Act, Title XXXIV, with its first action in the period on March 23, 2022. That counts only the money obligated in fiscal 2021 to 2025.
Which federal programs fund River Partners?
Its largest are Central Valley Improvement Act, Title XXXIV, Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CVPIA) and Plant Conservation and Restoration Management.
Other grant recipients in Chico
- California State University Chico
- Chico State Enterprises
- City of Chico
- Butte County Association of Governments
- Housing Authority of the County of Butte
- Mechoopda Indian Tribe
- Community Housing Improvement Program, Incorporated
- Healthy Rural California, Inc.
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