Rain Garden Incentive Programs for Puget Sound Homeowners

All across Puget Sound, local governments are seeing diverse benefits to helping private landowners build rain gardens and other green infrastructure. Generous incentive programs continue to be rolled out so check back if your area isn’t listed yet. Check out the list of incentives below and click through to connect to each program directly. Please reach out if you have suggested edits to our list!

Click into the map below to find out where incentive programs are available!

• Seattle:
  • RainWise Access Grants (up to $1,000 per project)
  • RainWise Rebates (avg $4,800 per home)
  • Stormwater Facilities Credit program (utility rate reductions)
  • Live in Seattle and need to make some home repairs to get your property ready for your new GSI installation? Check out the City of Seattle’s Home Repair Loan Program!
• King County
  • GSI Mini Grants (up to $1,500 per project or $4,500 per project for income limited/non-profit)
  • Salmon-Friendly (up to $5,500 per project in unincorporated King County as well as cities such as Woodinville and Covington in the Bear Creek)
• Unincorporated King County
  • RainScapes (helps cover construction and maintenance costs and provides technical support)

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• Bellingham:
  • Homeowner Incentive Program (up to $1.30 per square foot improved)

• Everett:
  • Let it Rain Rebate Program (up to $2,500 per project)

• Kirkland:
  • Yard Smart Rain Rewards (up to $3,500 per residential project)
• Kitsap County:
  • Kitsap Conservation District Cost Share Program (up to $1,000 per project and technical assistance provided)

• Pierce County:
  • Pierce Conservation District Mini Grants (up to $4,000 per project for rain garden, rain tank, urban wildlife habitat or depave projects)
  • Pierce Conservation District Cost Share Program (worth around $2,000 per property, but homeowners are responsible for the construction/planting or hiring of a contractor)

• Port Angeles:
  • Port Angeles Rain Garden Rebate Program (up to $1,000 per project)

• Puyallup:
  • The City of Puyallup’s Cost Share Program  (up to $1,000 per project and technical assistance provided)

• Shoreline:
  • Soak It Up Rebate Program (up to $2,000 per project)

• Tacoma:
  •  Surface Water Rate Reduction (for approved BMPs like rain gardens)
  • Make a Splash Stormwater Project Funding (up to $4,000 per project)
• Thurston County:
  • City of Olympia Rain Garden Incentive Program (up to $400 reimbursement)
  • Storm and Surface Water Utility Rate Credits (schools and non-residential properties can save money on their stormwater fees)

Some employers that offer wellness plans (e.g. Microsoft) wisely include gardening as an activity that they will support financially, including rain cisterns and possibly plants and soils for a rain garden.