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HHS-2025-ACF-ECD-TP-0016: FY 2025 Preschool Development Grant Birth Through Five (PDG B-5) Systems-Building Grant

Closed Closed December 1, 2025 Opportunity HHS-2025-ACF-ECD-TP-0016 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: Preschool Development Grant Birth Through Five (PDG B-5) SMART Grant (HHS-2026-ACF-ECD-TP-0039). Status: Closes November 20, 2026 (13 days left). It is in our archive of Administration for Children and Families notices from 2025.

• Award ceiling$15.0 million
• Award floor$500,000
• Total funding$222 million
• Expected awards25
• Cost sharingRequired
• Funding typeGrant

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to state and local governments.

• State governments
• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Certain Territories are also eligible for this Systems-Building Grant. Specific states and territories will be identified in the NOFO. Applications from individuals (including sole proprietorships) and foreign entities are not eligible and will be disqualified from the merit review and funding under this funding opportunity.

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Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Every Student Succeeds Act/Preschool Development Grants awards averaged $17.8 million; this notice allows up to $15.0 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (95% over five years) went to state and local governments.
• The notice requires cost sharing or matching funds, so you must contribute part of the project cost.

What the grant funds

This NOFO has been modified to update the scoring criteria, in Step 4, Application review. The Office of Early Childhood Development within the Administration for Children and Families at the Department of Health and Human Services will be soliciting applications from eligible states and territories to carry out the Systems-Building Grant activities of the Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five (PDG B-5) program. These PDG B-5 awards will support states and territories to build systems that strengthen early care and education (ECE) programs and increase parent access within a mixed delivery system based on a comprehensive, statewide birth to five needs assessment and strategic plan. Funding with be targeted to maximize parent choice and knowledge of the early care and education (ECE) mixed delivery system; support sharing of best practices among ECE provider to improve collaboration and efficiency of programs; and improve the quality of ECE programs.

Category: Income Security and Social Services.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, HHS-2026-ACF-ECD-TP-0039, which is open now.

The notice on Grants.gov keeps its full text and attachments, which is useful for planning a resubmission.