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P25AS00257: FY2025 - Emergency Supplemental Historic Preservation Fund (ESHPF)- Capacity

Closed Closed June 12, 2025 Opportunity P25AS00257 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$15.0 million
• Award floor$75,000
• Total funding$48.0 million
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeGrant

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Who can apply

This opportunity was open to nonprofits, state and local governments and tribes.

• State governments
• Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

This funding opportunity is limited to:State governments, as defined in 54 USC 3001 et seq. also known as the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended. Further eligible applicants are defined in 54 USC 302902 - Grants to States; 54 USC 302908 - Grants to the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palau; and specifically in 54 USC 300317 – States. One nonprofit organization, Ohio History Connection, is eligible to apply serving as the Ohio State Historic Preservation Office. Tribal governments with signed Memorandum of Agreements with the National Park Service to assume the duties of the State Historic Preservation Office on Tribal lands, as defined in 54 USC 3001 et seq. also known as the National Historic Preservation Act. Grants are not available for sites or collections that are owned or leased by the federal government, or in which the federal government holds a property interest. The eligible entities above must have also had a major disaster declaration within their jurisdictions in calendar years 2023 and/or 2024. Applicants can interact with this map to verify their location within a declared disaster area. A list of major disaster declarations can also be found on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) website.

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Is this a realistic fit?

• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The Emergency Supplemental Historic Preservation Fund (ESHPF) program supports recovery, and related expenses, for historic and cultural resources in areas impacted by natural disasters that have received a major disaster declaration pursuant to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (Stafford Act). Pursuant to Public Law 118-158, $48,000,000 will be awarded under the ESHPF grant program for necessary expenses related to the consequences of natural disasters occurring in calendar years 2023 and 2024. Grants are awarded through a competitive process and do not require non-Federal match. There are separate funding announcements, one for capacity grants to State and Tribal Historic Preservation Offices and another for physical preservation projects. Funding announcement P25AS00257 is for capacity needed by State and Tribal Historic Preservation Offices to complete compliance activities and for in-house, non-construction projects (i.e. survey, planning) in areas with major disaster declarations within their jurisdictions only; P25AS00489 is for States, Tribes, local governments, and nonprofits for defined physical preservation projects (including reconstruction), with documented damage from major disaster declarations within their jurisdictions. Please ensure you apply under the correct opportunity number for your project.

Category: Other.

We found no grant awards under Assistance Listing 15.957 in fiscal 2021 to 2025, which usually means the program is new or very small.

Applying now

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