NSDA Weekly Grant Update: July 18, 2025
This is your weekly grant opportunities update from The National Special Districts Association. Special districts are either eligible to apply directly, or able to partner with a qualifying entity to apply for any of the grants listed.
New Grant Opportunities
Department of Health and Human Services
FY 2025 Family, Opportunity, Resilience, Grit, Engagement – Fatherhood (FORGE Fatherhood)
- WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to support responsible fatherhood by promoting healthy marriage, responsible parenting practices, and economic stability activities. Projects will provide a broad array of services to adult fathers.
- WHO'S ELIGIBLE? State, county, city, township, and special district governments; independent school districts; public- and state-controlled institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments and tribal organizations; public housing authorities and Indian housing authorities; nonprofit organizations; faith-based organizations; and community organizations.
- TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $55 million
- WHEN IS IT DUE? July 29, 2025
Department of Health and Human Services
FY 2025 Helping Every Area of Relationships Thrive – Adults (HEART)
- WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to support activities promoting healthy marriages or relationships to ultimately strengthen families. Projects will provide a broad array of healthy marriage and relationship promotion activities and services designed to integrate skills-based healthy marriage education, along with additional services to address relationship skills and job and career advancement opportunities.
- WHO'S ELIGIBLE? State, county, city, or township governments; special district governments; independent school districts; public, state-controlled, and private institutions of higher education; Native American tribal governments and organizations; public housing authorities; nonprofits (with or without 501(c)(3) status); for-profit organizations, including small businesses; faith-based organizations; and community organizations
- TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $33 million
- WHEN IS IT DUE? July 29, 2025
Department of Health and Human Services
FY 2025 Hepatitis C Elimination Initiative Pilot
- WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to leverage existing health care institutions' capacity to prevent, test for, treat, and cure hepatitis C (HCV) in individuals with substance use disorder (SUD) and/or severe mental illness (SMI), particularly in communities severely affected by homelessness, to gain insights on effective ways to identify patients, complete treatment, and reduce reinfection.
- WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Local governments, academic institutions, Native American Tribes, nonprofits, state government, tribal organizations and institutions and consortia
- TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $100 million
- WHEN IS IT DUE? August 1, 2025
Department of Health and Human Services
FY 2025 Relationships, Education, Advancement, and Development for Youth for Life (READY4Life)
- WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to support healthy marriage and relationship education activities including parenting and job and career advancement activities. Grants under this program will be targeted exclusively at projects designed to provide healthy marriage and relationship education skills, parenting (for young fathers and mothers, as applicable), financial management, job and career advancement, and other activities, for youth that are high-school aged (grades 9-12) or in late adolescence and early adulthood (ages 14 to 24), including parenting and/or pregnant youth.
- WHO'S ELIGIBLE? State and local governments, special district governments, independent school districts, institutions of higher education, Native American tribal/territorial governments, public/Indian housing authorities, for profit and nonprofit organizations, and faith based and community organizations
- TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $22 million
- WHEN IS IT DUE? July 29, 2025
National Endowment for the Humanities
FY 2025 Public Humanities Projects
- WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program supports projects that bring the ideas and insights of the humanities to life through in-person exhibitions and historic site interpretations. Projects must focus on one of the following areas: American Military History and Valor, The American Dream and Economic Freedom, American Exceptionalism in World Affairs, or the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
- WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Nonprofit organizations recognized under section 501(c)(3), accredited institutions of higher education (public or nonprofit), state and local governments and their agencies, and federally recognized Native American Tribal governments
- TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $6 million
- WHEN IS IT DUE? September 10, 2025
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