NSDA Weekly Grant Update: July 25, 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 the Interior
FY 2024 Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Subgrant Program
- WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to fund subgrant programs that support the rehabilitation of historic properties to foster economic development in rural communities. These subgrant programs will select, fund, and manage preservation projects for historic properties to include architectural/engineering services and physical preservation.
- WHO'S ELIGIBLE? State, county, city or township, special district, and federally-recognized Native American tribal governments; public- and state-controlled institutions of higher education; and nonprofit organizations. Units of local government must be Certified Local Governments or located within a Certified Local Government.
- TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $10 million
- WHEN IS IT DUE? August 21, 2025
Department of the Interior
FY 2025 & 2026 Small Surface Water and Groundwater Storage Projects (Small Storage Program) (Reissued)
- WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program provides funding for small surface water and groundwater storage projects to enhance water storage opportunities for future generations. This program supports stakeholder efforts to stretch scarce water supplies and avoid conflicts over water in the 17 western states, Alaska, and Hawaii.
- WHO'S ELIGIBLE? State, county, city or township, and special district governments; Native American Tribal governments and organizations; 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations; and joint powers authorities located in the 17 western United States, as identified in the Reclamation Act of 1902
- TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $43.5 million
- WHEN IS IT DUE? April 17, 2026
- Department of Justice
FY 2025 Emergency and Transitional Pet Shelter and Housing Assistance for Victims of Domestic Violence Program
- WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program provides funding for shelter and transitional housing and other assistance to victims of domestic violence and their companion animals. Under this program this includes pets, service animals, emotional support animals and horses.
- WHO'S ELIGIBLE? State and local governments, federally recognized Native American tribal governments, organizations that have a documented history of effective work concerning domestic violence, and any organization that works directly with pets, service animals, emotional support animals, or horses and collaborates with any organization listed above
- TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $3 million
- WHEN IS IT DUE? August 15, 2025 (Grants.gov), August 20, 2025 (JustGrants)
Department of Justice
FY 2025 Services for Victims of Crime
- WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program supports the development, expansion and strengthening of victim service programs for all victims of crime throughout the United States and its territories. The goal of the program is to increase the quality and quantity of victim services.
- WHO'S ELIGIBLE? State, county, city or township, and special district governments; Native American Tribal governments; independent school districts; public, state-controlled, and private institutions of higher education; public and Indian housing authorities; nonprofits other than institutions of higher education; and other units of local government
- TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $15.9 million
- WHEN IS IT DUE? August 15, 2025 (Grants.gov), August 20, 2025 (JustGrants)
Department of Justice
FY 2025 Services for Victims of Technology-Facilitated Abuse
- WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program supports services to victims of technology-facilitated abuse (TFA). TFA includes, but is not limited to, crimes commonly referred to as image-based sexual abuse, non-consensual distribution of intimate images, sextortion, synthetic intimate images (“deepfakes”), online stalking, harassment, and abuse.
- WHO'S ELIGIBLE? State, county, city or township, and special district governments; federally recognized and non-federally recognized Native American Tribal governments; independent school districts; private, public, and state-controlled institutions of higher education; public and Indian housing authorities; nonprofits with or without a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS; and other units of local government
- TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $3 million
- WHEN IS IT DUE? August 15, 2025 (Grants.gov), August 20, 2025 (JustGrants)
Department of Justice
FY 2025 Technology to Support Services for Victims of Crime
- WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to develop, expand, and strengthen victim service programs for all victims of crime throughout the United States and its territories. Applicants may apply under Category 1: Advancing the Use of Technology to Assist Victims of Crime, or Category 2: Building State Technology Capacity to Serve Victims of Crime.
- WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Eligible Category 1 applicants are states, counties, cities or townships, and special district governments; Native American Tribal governments; educational organizations; public housing organizations; nonprofit organizations; and other units of local government. Eligible Category 2 applicants are Formula Assistance and Compensation state administering agencies (SAAs).
- TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $5 million
- WHEN IS IT DUE? August 15, 2025 (Grants.gov), August 20, 2025 (JustGrants)
Department of Justice
FY 2025 Training and Technical Assistance Initiative (Reissued)
- WHAT DOES IT FUND? The primary purpose of this program is to provide direct training and technical assistance to strengthen and build the capacity of civil and criminal justice system professionals and victim service providers across the nation to respond effectively to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking and foster partnerships and collaboration among organizations to address these crimes, including among organizations that have not traditionally worked together.
- WHO'S ELIGIBLE? National, tribal, statewide, or other nonprofit organizations with the capacity to provide training and technical assistance (TTA) on a national level to current and potential recipients and subrecipients in the United States and U.S. territories
- TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $29.575 million
- WHEN IS IT DUE? September 9, 2025 (Grants.gov), September 11, 2025 (JustGrants)
Environmental Protection Agency
FY 2026 Brownfields Job Training (JT) Grants
- WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program provides funding to recruit, train, and place local, unemployed and under-employed residents of solid and hazardous waste-impacted communities with the skills needed to obtain full-time employment in the environmental field.
- WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Local governments, land clearance authorities or other quasi-governmental entities that operate under local governments, government entities created by state legislatures, regional councils, redevelopment agencies, states, federally recognized Indian tribes other than in Alaska, Alaskan Native Regional and Native Village Corporations and nonprofit organizations
- TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $10-14 million
- WHEN IS IT DUE? September 26, 2025
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
FY 2026 Electronic Monitoring and Reporting Grant Program
- WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program supports projects that develop and implement promising electronic technologies that improve the timeliness and quality of fisheries data; expand access and availability of data; increase knowledge of fisheries for management, industry, and science purposes; improve regional data management systems and data interoperability; and empower fishermen and other citizens to become more actively involved in the data collection process.
- WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Non-profit 501(c) organizations, state government agencies, local governments, municipal governments, Tribal Governments and Organizations, educational institutions, and commercial (for-profit) organizations
- TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? Unspecified
- WHEN IS IT DUE? September 24, 2025
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
FY 2025 Pacific Seabird Program
- WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to implement actions and fill information gaps in support of focal seabird species. Support will be provided for actions targeting species in the funding agency's Business Plan for Pacific Seabirds. The overarching vision of the business plan is to address the impacts of terrestrial and marine threats on focal seabird species toward reducing extinction risk and sustaining resilient populations.
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- WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Eligible applicants are non-profit 501(c) organizations, Federal government agencies, state government agencies, local governments, municipal governments, Tribal Governments and Organizations, educational institutions and international organizations. Eligibility is limited to projects from the following four broad geographies within the Pacific: California Current; Hawaiian Archipelago; Humboldt Current; and locations in the central tropical Pacific supporting the priority species of this program.
- TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $4 million
- WHEN IS IT DUE? August 20, 2025