Clean Water Management Trust Fund
This trust fund provides grants to state and local governments, as well as nonprofit environmental organizations, for several purposes including the acquisition of land for riparian buffers that protect water quality and for establishing networks of greenways. The trust was allocated $40 million for fiscal year 2001, and about half of its monies are typically devoted to land acquisition.

Conservation Grants Fund
Created in 1997 under G.S. 113A-232, this fund has never received any money. It is intended to help nonprofit land trusts improve their ability to conserve land. Should allocations eventually be made to the fund, grants will be awarded to cover transaction costs associated with the donation of property, educational costs of land trust staff and volunteers, and more. The fund can also be used to increase citizen participation in land and water conservation. The fund is administered by the NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources.

National Recreational Trails Program
Grants to federal, state and local governments, as well as nonprofit organizations, are given by this grant program for the acquisition, development and maintenance of land for trails. The fund awards approximately $1.1 million annually. Funding is from the US Department of Transportation.

NC Farmland Preservation Program
This program was created in 1986 to allow county governments, soil and water conservation districts and land trusts to acquire development rights or conservation easements of agricultural lands. Grants are given for both property rights and transaction costs. The NC General Assembly allocated $200,000 to the fund for fiscal year 2001.

NC Wetlands Restoration Program
This program partners the Division of Water Quality's Wetlands Restoration Program with other government agencies and private land trusts to provide funding for the acquisition and restoration of wetlands.