Federal grant programs / Department of Homeland Security

BRIC: Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (97.047)

• Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$1.6 billion
• Grant awards957
• Typical award$150,000
• Awarded in FY 2025$154 million
• Size rank198 of 1,823
• Type of assistanceProject grants

Key findings

• Annual funding fell from $162 million in fiscal 2021 to $154 million in fiscal 2025.
• It is the 198th largest of 1,823 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
• The 20 largest recipients received 82% of the money.
• Awards went to recipients in 53 states and territories.

What the program funds

The Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program makes federal funds available to states, U.S territories, federally recognized tribal governments, and local communities for hazard mitigation activities. The guiding principles of the program are to (1) support state and local governments, tribes, and territories through capability- and capacity-building to enable them to identify mitigation actions and implement projects that reduce risks posed by natural hazards; (2) encourage and enable innovation while allowing flexibility, consistency, and effectiveness; (3) promote partnerships and enable high-impact investments to reduce risk from natural hazards with a focus on critical services and facilities, public infrastructure, public safety, public health, and communities; (4) provide a significant opportunity to reduce future losses and minimize impacts on the Disaster Relief Fund; (5) promote equity, including by helping members of overburdened and underservedvulnerable groups; and (6) support the adoption and enforcement of building codes, standards, and policies that will protect the health, safety, and general welfare of the public, take into account future conditions, prominently including the effects of climate change, and have long-lasting impacts on community risk reduction, including for critical services and facilities and for future disaster costs. The FY 2022 Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM) Grant Program is to fund Congressional Community Projects for state, local, tribal, and territorial government efforts to plan for and implement sustainable cost-effective measures designed to reduce the risk to individuals and property from future natural hazards, while also reducing reliance on federal funding from future disasters.

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 · District of Columbia · U.S. territories · Federally recognized tribal governments Each state, territory, the District of Columbia, and federally recognized tribal governments shall designate one agency to serve as the applicant for BRIC and PDM funding. Each applicant’s designated agency may submit only one BRIC and one PDM grant application to FEMA. Subapplications under which two or more entities would carry out the award are eligible, such as a multi-state or multi-tribal initiative; however, only one entity may be the applicant with primary responsibility for carrying out the award. Communities, including local governments, cities, townships, counties, special district governments, and tribal governments (including federally recognized tribes who choose to apply as subapplicants) are considered subapplicants and must submit subapplications for financial assistance to their state/territory/tribal applicant agency. Contact information for the State Hazard Mitigation Officers (SHMOs) is provided on the FEMA website at http://www.fema.gov/state-hazard-mitigation-officers. For applicant eligibility criteria and other eligibility criteria, refer to the Notices of Funding Opportunities posted on www.Grants.gov.

What the money can and cannot pay for

Capability- and Capacity-Building (C&CB) Activities: Activities which enhance the knowledge, skills, expertise, etc., of the current workforce to expand or improve the administration of mitigation assistance. This includes activities in the following sub-categories: building codes activities, partnerships, project scoping, mitigation planning and planning-related activities, and other activities. Mitigation Projects: Cost-effective projects designed to increase resilience and public safety; reduce injuries and loss of life; and reduce damage and destruction to property, critical services, facilities, and infrastructure from natural hazards. Management Costs: Financial assistance to reimburse the recipient and subrecipient for eligible and reasonable indirect costs, direct administrative costs, and other administrative expenses associated with a specific mitigation measure or project in an amount up to 15 percent of the total amount of the grant award, of which not more than 10 percent of the total award amount may be used by the recipient and 5 percent by the subrecipient for such costs. For PDM, these management costs must come out of each Congressional Community Project’s funding amount.

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Matching requirements

Statutory Formula: Title Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, Part 5133,Public Law 100-707.Statutory Formula: Title Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act Chapter 42 Part 5133 Subpart Public Law 100-707 Matching Requirements: Percent: Other Generally, the cost-share for this program is 75 percent federal/25 percent non-federal. This means federal funding is available for up to 75 percent of eligible costs. The remaining 25 percent of eligible costs must be derived from non-federal sources. Economically disadvantaged rural communities (also known as small, impoverished communities for PDM) are eligible for an increase in cost share up to 90 percent federal/10 percent non-federal. FEMA will provide 100 percent federal funding for management costs. Please refer to the Notices of Funding Opportunitiesy posted on www.Grants.gov.MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

Deadlines

Contact the headquarters or regional location, as appropriate for application deadlines

Examples of funded projects

Fiscal Year2020: Risk-informed planning and prioritization of mitigation needs.Fiscal Year2021: • Risk reduction activities that lessen the impact of disasters on infrastructure, people and property. • Risk-informed planning and prioritization of mitigation needsFiscal Year2022: Risk reduction activities that lessen the impact of disasters on infrastructure, people, and property. • Risk-informed planning and prioritization of mitigation needs

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 96% of the money, tribes 3.1% and nonprofits less than 0.1%.

By state

52 states have a page for this program: those that received at least $1 million or 10 awards.

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