Washington — CPARC 2026 Cycle 2 Rural Historic Flood Resilience Grants (Up to $200,000)

Open applicant-facing grant: The Washington Trust for Historic Preservation’s Coastal Preservation & Adaptation for Rural Communities (CPARC) Program, 2026 Cycle 2, supports preservation and flood-resilience work on qualifying historic properties in rural Washington communities. Individual grants may be up to $200,000. The approximately $350,000 total Cycle 2 funding pool is not an individual award. Complete online applications are due December 13, 2026 at 11:59 p.m.; the funder’s published guidance does not specify a time zone.

Who can apply: Eligible applicants may include nonprofit organizations, Tribal governments, local governments, private historic property owners and qualified long-term lessees with the owner’s written permission and willingness to enter required preservation protections. The project must involve an eligible historically significant building or landscape in a rural Washington community of 50,000 or fewer residents under the grant manual’s definition, at risk from coastal, riverine or riparian flooding. The resource must be listed on a qualifying historic register or determined eligible with the required nomination completed within the project period. Religiously owned properties and institutional campuses are excluded. Applicants should check the detailed ownership, property, rural-location and historic-register conditions in the controlling manual before applying.

Eligible work and significant restrictions: Funded activities can include compatible flood-resilience and historic-preservation measures such as floodproofing, floodwalls, elevation or physical rehabilitation, subject to applicable preservation review. Related design/architectural costs are limited to the manual’s 20% allowance. Certain historic nomination, easement preparation/recording and required signage costs may qualify. Demolition, relocation and changes incompatible with historic-preservation requirements are not eligible. Work requires relevant approvals and must be completed by September 30, 2027. Prevailing wage, historic-preservation agreement/easement and federal pass-through requirements apply.

Applicant match and payment: Applicants must contribute at least 40% of the grant request using qualifying nonfederal cash and/or in-kind resources (a $200,000 request requires at least $80,000 in qualifying contribution). Required cash match must be available at application. Funding is reimbursement-only: applicants must incur eligible costs and demonstrate the applicable matching contribution before grant reimbursement. Qualifying preservation agreements or easements must be documented and recorded; the required term depends on award size, including five years for awards up to $50,000 and ten years for awards between $50,001 and $250,000. The manual contains differing dates for a draft easement submission milestone; obtain written confirmation of that schedule from the Trust.

Application requirements: Review the official 2026 Cycle 2 grant manual and the official CPARC application page. Prepare site eligibility and ownership documents, historic-registration evidence, photos, project scope and flood-risk explanation, itemized budget and match documentation, contractor estimates, qualifications, support letters, site control/owner consent where relevant, liability-insurance documentation and the required grant-application attachments. Use the linked Airtable application, which the administrator advises must be completed in one session. Qualifying organizational applicants may need a Unique Entity Identifier; confirm all federal subaward prerequisites in the manual.

Source and status: The 16-page controlling program manual and administrator’s current application information were reviewed on October 27, 2026. This program offers competitive applicant-facing financial-assistance subgrants for qualifying rural historic properties; it is not procurement or a state/federal allocation without a downstream application.