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Department of Agriculture

FY 2025 Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) Program

WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to provide financial and technical assistance to help local communities relieve imminent threats to life and property caused by floods, fires, windstorms, and other natural occurrences that impair a watershed. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Eligible sponsors are entities with a legal interest in, or responsibility for, the areas threatened by a watershed emergency, including states, state agencies, or legal subdivisions of a state government; local units of government including cities, counties, towns, and conservation districts; and Native American tribes or tribal organizations

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? Unspecified

WHEN'S IT DUE? Rolling

Environmental Protection Agency

FY 2025 Water Technical Assistance (WaterTA) Program

WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to ensure all communities have access to clean, safe, and reliable water by providing technical assistance that will help communities to address challenges in providing safe drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater services to their residents. Rather than providing monetary awards, this program will provide free technical assistance services that will support communities and their water utilities. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Local governments and communities; drinking water, wastewater and stormwater utilities and systems; states and territories; tribes; and nongovernmental organizations

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? Rather than providing monetary awards, this program will provide free technical assistance services

WHEN'S IT DUE? Rolling

Department of Health and Human Services

FY 2025 Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) – Overdose Response

WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to support improving health care in rural areas by addressing their immediate and short-term needs related to the provision of substance use disorder services. This program ultimately aims to reduce and prevent the risk of overdoses in rural areas. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Domestic public or private, nonprofit, and for-profit entities

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $6 million

WHEN'S IT DUE? March 10, 2025

Department of Health and Human Services

FY 2025 Rural Health Network Development Planning Program

WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to support the planning and development of integrated health care networks to achieve efficiencies, improve health care services and associated health outcomes, and strengthen the rural health care system. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Domestic public or private, nonprofit or for-profit entities, which include local government, academic institutions, Native American tribal governments, the private sector, schools/school districts, state government, and tribal organizations

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $3.5 million

WHEN'S IT DUE? February 19, 2025

Department of the Interior

FY 2024 Historic Preservation Fund (HPF): Semiquincentennial Grants

WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to support the physical preservation of a broad variety of cultural resources associated with the founding of America as a nation in commemoration of the country's semiquincentennial, or 250th anniversary of founding. Funding will support pre-preservation and preservation projects. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? State governments and territories; local governments, including certified local governments, and county, city, and township governments; public, state-controlled, private, and nonprofit institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments, Alaskan Natives, and Native Hawaiian organizations; Native American tribal organizations; and nonprofit organizations

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $7 million

WHEN'S IT DUE? March 18, 2025

Department of Justice

FY 2025 Enhancing Youth Defense

WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program seeks to implement youth defense system efforts that strengthen and improve the representation of youth involved in the juvenile justice system. This program supports organizations providing public defense services through a combination of direct grants and national training and technical assistance to implement sustainable system improvements that result in improved youth outcomes, reduced recidivism, safer communities, cost savings, and increased public confidence in the juvenile justice system. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? Government entities, educational organizations, and nonprofit organizations

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $1.6 million

WHEN'S IT DUE? February 5, 2025 (Grants.gov), February 19, 2025 (JustGrants)

Department of Justice

FY 2025 Improving Adult and Youth Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry Program

WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to support cross-system collaborative approaches to reduce the risk of crisis and improve reentry and recovery outcomes for people reentering the community from correctional facilities with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and co-occurring disorders. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? State and local governments, Native American tribal governments and organizations, and nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) status

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $8.25 million

WHEN'S IT DUE? February 24, 2025 (Grants.gov), March 3, 2025 (JustGrants)

Department of Justice

FY 2025 Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Program

WHAT DOES IT FUND? This program builds on the capacity of applicants to implement new and innovative approaches to enhance existing juvenile drug treatment courts (JDTC) and improve outcomes for youth with substance use or co-occurring mental health disorders, including those with histories of trauma. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? City or township governments, county governments, federally recognized Native American tribal governments, Native American tribal organizations, and state governments

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $4 million

WHEN'S IT DUE? February 5, 2025 (Grants.gov), February 19, 2025 (JustGrants)

Department of Transportation

FY 2025 Port Infrastructure Development Program

WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to improve the safety, efficiency, or reliability of the movement of goods through ports and intermodal connections to ports. Click here for more information.

WHO'S ELIGIBLE? States or political subdivisions of states or local governments, Indian tribes or consortia of tribes, public agencies or publicly chartered authorities established by one or more states, special-purpose districts with a transportation function, and multistate or multijurisdictional groups of entities

TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT? $450 million

WHEN'S IT DUE? April 30, 2025