Funding Overview
The California Ocean Protection Council (OPC) collaboratively manages various funding sources to advance strategic investments in scientific research and monitoring, collaborative policy development, restoration, and other projects that will improve conditions for ocean and coastal ecosystems and California communities. Funding sources include bond funds, General Fund monies, and special funds.
OPC encourages diverse applicants to apply and collaborate on initiatives that advance sustainable and equitable coast and ocean stewardship.
Open Solicitations
Senate Bill 1 Sea Level Rise Adaptation Grant Program
The Senate Bill 1 Sea Level Rise Adaptation Grant Program (SB 1 Grant Program) provides funding to support coastal communities in developing and implementing plans and projects that build resilience to sea level rise along California’s coast and the San Francisco Bay.
The SB 1 Grant Program includes three funding tracks:
- Track 1 – Sea Level Rise Adaptation Planning Projects
- Accepted on a rolling, quarterly, non-competitive basis.
- Track 2 – Sea Level Rise Implementation Projects
- Letters of Intent (LOIs) are now being accepted through Friday, February 20, 2026, by 5:00 p.m.
- Sea Level Rise Tribal Cultural Resources Funding Program
- Provides dedicated support for California Native American tribes to plan for the impacts of sea level rise on cultural resources and ancestral lands.
Visit the SB 1 Funding webpage and SB 1 Tribal webpage for solicitation materials, application instructions and templates, and application deadlines.
The SB 1 Grant Program is part of California Climate Investments, a statewide initiative that puts billions of Cap-and-Invest, formerly known as Cap-and-Trade, dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy, and improving public health and the environment — particularly in disadvantaged communities.
The SB 1 Grant Program is also supported by Proposition 4 (the Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024).
Ocean Acidification, Hypoxia, and Harmful Algal Bloom Solicitation
The Monitoring, Research, and Modeling to Support Ocean Acidification, Hypoxia, and Marine Harmful Algal Bloom Management in California solicitation provides funding to enhance scientific understanding of these two water quality concerns in order to advance the State’s response related to growing threats to California’s coastal ecosystems and communities.
The solicitation includes two funding tracks:
- Track 1: Advancing Knowledge of the Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia
- Track 2: Marine Harmful Algal Bloom Research Monitoring, and Synthesis for Early Warning, Control, and Ecosystem Resiliency
Letters of intent (LOI) for both tracks are due Friday, March 6, 2026 by 5:00 p.m. More information and instructions for applying can be found in the solicitation.
This solicitation is part of California Climate Investments.
Grant Programs and Funding Sources
OPC offers funding for ocean and coastal projects through competitive grant solicitations and discretionary grants to advance critical information needs and policy priorities statewide. OPC does not accept unsolicited proposals for discretionary funds or outside of open solicitation periods for competitive grants.
For more information about our grant programs and funding sources, visit the following webpages:
Senate Bill 1 (SB 1) Grant Program
The SB 1 Sea Level Rise Adaptation Planning Grant Program provides funding to develop sea level rise adaptation plans and projects to build resilience to sea level rise along the entire coast of California and San Francisco Bay.
Proposition 68 Grant Program
Prop 68 funding supports priorities across OPC’s program areas, projects that conserve, protect, and restore marine wildlife and healthy ocean and coastal ecosystems, or assist communities in adapting to climate change.
Proposition 4 Coastal and Ocean Resilience Grant Program
Proposition 4 allocates funding to OPC to conserve and restore marine and coastal ecosystems and to advance sea level rise mitigation and adaptation across California’s coast.
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