New York Native Landscaping Rebates

Rebate for installing rain barrels, native plantings, and rain gardens. Covers most Nassau and Suffolk County homeowners - significantly broader than the town-specific programs. The 2025 program closed by late May due to high demand. Expected to reopen spring 2026; apply early once it opens.

Broadest Long Island native plant rebate - covers Nassau and Suffolk. High demand means funding runs out fast. Check site at start of spring.

Rebate for purchasing native plants to create native plant or rain gardens. Submit application with proposed garden size, plant species list, photos, and basic layout.

Program runs annually. Check website for current year deadline and eligibility.

Rebate for removing turf and pavement and installing green alternatives: rain barrels, rain gardens, and native plantings. Submit application, build project, then submit receipts and photos for reimbursement.

Applications for 2025 were open; check website for current year status.

HGCNY reimburses homeowners in Onondaga, Cayuga, Cortland, Oswego, or Tompkins counties up to $200 for native plants purchased from the HGCNY Native Plant Shopping Guide to enhance wildlife habitat, including rain-garden and lawn-to-native conversion projects. Recipients purchase plants first and submit receipts for reimbursement after selection. Applications are reviewed annually against required and preferred criteria, with ties broken by earliest submission (HGCNY; last verified July 2026).

Small dollar amount ($200) with a competitive annual cap, but a firm published figure exists, clearing the bar the in-kind/no-figure precedent (GA Gwinnett, ME South Portland, HI Malama Maunalua) rejected on. Independently corroborated on the Cornell Cooperative Extension-run Skaneateles Lake Watershed site (skanlakeinfo.org/landscaping) with the same $200 figure and county list. Application window is currently closed for the 2026 cycle; recheck next spring for the 2027 window.

The Lake George Association, through its Lake Impact Fund, reimburses property owners in the Lake George Watershed up to $10,000 for stormwater practices including rain gardens, vegetated swales, infiltration trenches, drywells, and permeable pavement, as well as shoreline and stream buffer plantings. Reimbursement is issued after the project is completed; applications are accepted on a rolling, funds-available basis and a grant award is valid for 10 months (Lake George Association; last verified July 2026).

Supersedes an earlier "Buffer Lake George" carry-forward lead whose own domain (fundforlakegeorge.org) has since lapsed to an unrelated squatted site; this Lake Impact Fund program is the current, better-funded structure confirmed live on lakegeorgeassociation.org.