Issuer: Hawaiʻi Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife, Legacy Land Conservation Program.
Current status: Open for Fiscal Year 2027.
Purpose: The Operation, Maintenance, and Management (OMM) Grant supports ongoing care of lands previously acquired with financial assistance from the State Land Conservation Fund through a Legacy Land Conservation Program land-acquisition grant. Eligible work must protect, maintain, or restore resources at risk or improve public access and enjoyment of conserved land.
Funding: DLNR expects $255,000 to be available for FY2027 OMM awards. Eligible applicants may request up to $51,000 per application, with no published minimum.
Deadline: October 12, 2026. The current DLNR program page publishes the date but does not state an exact closing time or time zone, so Atlas does not infer one.
Eligibility: The applicant must be the awardee of the Legacy Land Conservation Program land-acquisition grant used to purchase the property and must be the current owner of the property proposed for management. County and nonprofit awardees must provide matching funds equal to at least 25% of total project cost.
Eligible costs: Grant funds and matching funds are limited to equipment; maintenance and repair; materials and supplies; professional services to prepare a management plan; and professional services to prepare an environmental assessment. An approved advance may be requested only when urgently needed and is capped at 15% of the approved award or the minimum amount needed, whichever is less. Otherwise, payment is against documented actual costs and expenditures.
Required application materials: DLNR lists the FY2027 OMM Grant Application Guidelines and Instructions, the OMM Grant Application, an application sign-up sheet as an alternative to the online sign-up form, and an Excel budget workbook for applicants who cannot use the calculating PDF budget pages. The application also requires applicant/property information, management history, proposed activities, deliverables and timeframe, success measures, maps and photos, budget and matching-fund information, and a budget narrative.
Submission method: Applicants first complete the FY2027 OMM sign-up process. Program staff creates a SharePoint application folder and emails access to the applicant. The completed application and supporting materials must be present, readable, and navigable in that SharePoint folder by the deadline.
Amendments/source control: Atlas reviewed the current first-party DLNR OMM Grant page and Legacy Land Conservation Program page on September 21, 2026. The FY2027 cycle is listed as open. No later issuer amendment or extension was identified in the first-party pages reviewed.
Atlas assessment
Atlas Grant Fit Score: 58/100
N9+ Fit Score: 0/100
QC Healthcare Fit Score: 0/100
Dr. Miltie / QC Healthcare direct-vendor opportunity: No.
Atlas note: This is a legitimate but very narrow conservation-management opportunity restricted to prior Legacy Land acquisition awardees that currently own the conserved property. It is not a healthcare, telehealth, or medical-equipment funding vehicle, so ordinary outreach should not introduce N9+.
Official sources: DLNR Operation, Maintenance, and Management Grant | DLNR Legacy Land Conservation Program