Federal grant programs / Department of Energy

Weatherization Assistance for Low-Income Persons (81.042)

Also known as Weatherization Assistance Program

• Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$4.7 billion
• Grant awards241
• Typical award$6.3 million
• Awarded in FY 2025$1.9 billion
• Size rank97 of 1,823
• Type of assistanceFormula grants

Key findings

• Annual funding rose from $283 million in fiscal 2021 to $1.9 billion in fiscal 2025.
• It is the 97th largest of 1,823 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
• The 20 largest recipients received 71% of the money.
• Awards went to recipients in 56 states and territories.

What the program funds

To improve home energy efficiency for low-income families through the most cost-effective measures possible. The program is funded by formula grants to states and administered at the state and local level.

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

States and Territories, including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, and, Native American tribal organizations (Navajo Nation, Northern Cheyenne, Intertribal Council of Arizona). In the event a State does not apply, a unit of general purpose local government, or community action agencies and/or other nonprofit agencies within that State becomes eligible to apply.

What the money can and cannot pay for

Improvement of the thermal efficiency and cooling of dwellings by the installation of weatherization materials such as attic insulation, caulking, weather-stripping, furnace efficiency modifications, certain mechanical measures to heating and cooling systems, and replacement furnaces, boilers, and air-conditioners. Grantees may average expenditures per dwelling unit for materials, program support and labor costs not to exceed an average per unit of $8,009 adjusted annually for inflation. Up to 10 percent of each grant may be spent by a Grantee and its subgrantees for administrative expenses ( in the Formula Grants a Grantee may not use more than 5 percent of the total State grant for such purposes).;

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

Oct 01, 2025 to Sep 30, 2026

Award range and average, in the agency's words

$230,000 - $29,147,768

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

State and local governments received 99% of the money, nonprofits 0.8%.

By state

Each state below has its own page for this program, with its recipients and yearly totals.

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