Federal grant programs / Environmental Protection Agency

Protection of Children from Environmental Health Risks (66.609)

Also known as Children's Environmental Health

• Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$2.5 million
• Grant awards17
• Typical award$199,977
• Awarded in FY 2025$22,000
• Size rank1,732 of 1,823
• Type of assistanceCooperative agreements

Key findings

• Annual funding fell from $315,033 in fiscal 2021 to $22,000 in fiscal 2025.
• It is the 1732nd largest of 1,823 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
• The 17 largest recipients received 100% of the money.
• Awards went to recipients in 15 states and territories.

What the program funds

To support efforts by organizations; educational institutions; and/or State, local, and tribal governmental agencies to establish or enhance their ability to take actions that will reduce environmental risks to the health of children. Since 1997, when the Office of Children’s Health Protection was established, EPA has focused on children’s health protection, undertaking a variety of efforts to improve the environments where children live, learn and play. EPA has sponsored research to evaluate the impacts of environmental exposures on children’s health, ensured that children’s health protection is a key component of our risk assessments and regulatory decision-making, and supported efforts to promote the measurement and tracking of environmental health disparities. EPA has launched projects to improve school environments, promote healthy homes, address indoor and outdoor air quality, and reduce children’s exposures to chemicals, pesticides, and radiation. EPA has developed tools to enable citizens, communities, governmental and non-governmental agencies to take steps toward protecting children from environmental health threats. EPA has worked with healthcare providers to identify, prevent and reduce environmental threat to children. EPA has also provided international leadership in the protection of children worldwide. EPA’s partnerships with other federal agencies; state and local governments; tribes; nongovernmental organizations; healthcare providers; academia; and others are essential to achieving our children’s health protection goals. It is only through our combined efforts that we can achieve the goals of making the health protection of children a fundamental goal of public health and environmental protection.

From the federal Assistance Listing. Read the full listing on SAM.gov.

Open opportunities

No opportunity under this program is open or forecast on Grants.gov right now. Programs often post once a year, so the funding history below shows what to expect.

Rules from the program listing

Who can apply

Assistance under this program is generally available to States or state agencies, territories, the District of Columbia, American Indian Tribes (federally recognized), and possessions of the U.S. It is also available to public and private universities and colleges, hospitals, laboratories, other public or private nonprofit institutions, and 501(c)(3) organizations. Nonprofit organizations described in Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code that engage in lobbying activities as defined in Section 3 of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 are not eligible to apply. For profit organizations are generally not eligible for funding. Some of EPA's statutes may limit assistance to specific types of interested applications. For certain competitive funding opportunities under this assistance listing, the Agency may limit eligibility to compete to a number or subset of eligible applicants consistent with the Agency's Policy for the Competition of Assistance Agreements.

What the money can and cannot pay for

Grants and cooperative agreements are available to support recipients' allowable direct costs incident to approved surveys, studies, investigations, and special purpose assistance, plus allowable indirect costs, in accordance with established EPA policies and regulations. Funding awarded for research does not include research within the purview of EPA's Office of Research and Development. Funds awarded under Section 311(b)(3) of CERCLA must be used for projects relating to innovative or alternative treatment technologies that may be utilized in response actions to achieve more permanent protection of human health and welfare and the environment. Assistance agreement awards under this program may involve or relate to geospatial information. Further information regarding geospatial information may be obtained by viewing the following website: Geospatial Resources at EPA. This program makes Federal awards on a discretionary basis. A discretionary award means an award in which the Federal awarding agency, in keeping with specific statutory authority that enables the agency to exercise judgement (“discretion”), selects the recipient and/or the amount of Federal funding awarded through a competitive process or based on merit of proposals. A discretionary award may be selected on a non-competitive basis, as appropriate. For further information, please contact the Headquarters or regional office.

Matching requirements

This program has no statutory formula. Matching requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing. MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

Deadlines

For competitive awards, the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) will specify application procedures.

Award range and average, in the agency's words

In FY22 - EPA awarded ten (10) cooperative agreements under the Children’s Healthy Learning Environments in Low-Income and/or Minority Communities competition under the American Rescue Plan (ARP) . The total estimated funding available under that competition was $2 million, with awards up to approximately $200,000. Proposed project periods were for two years.

Examples of funded projects

Fiscal Year2025: Through no-cost extensions, EPA continued funding for the ten (10) grantees selected for award under a 2021 competition. This $2 million grant program competition was funded to support children’s environmental health by building capacity through activities that identify and address disproportionate environmental or public health harms and risks.

Quoted from the program's federal Assistance Listing. The notice of funding opportunity is the official source for each competition's rules.

Who usually wins

Nonprofits received 54% of the money, colleges and universities 35% and state and local governments 11%.

By state

No state received $1 million or 10 awards from this program, so it has no state pages.

Award amounts are federal obligations reported to USAspending.gov for fiscal 2021 to 2025; see how our data works.