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Federal Nonprofit Security Grant Program

What the FY2025 round offered

How the FY2025 round of Federal NSGP worked, from the agency's own documents. Rules and amounts change every round: this is not the current round.

Application window
Opens July 28, 2025 · Deadline August 11, 2025 (State Administrative Agency deadline to FEMA (5 p.m. ET per the FEMA fact sheet). Nonprofits apply to their state: New York DHSES released its RFA December 17, 2025, applications due January 13, 2026 by 5:00 p.m.) Source
Maximum award
$200,000 per site, up to three sites per funding stream (NSGP-UA and NSGP-S), up to $600,000 per organization per state Source
Total funding
$274.5 million ($137.25 million NSGP-UA, $137.25 million NSGP-S) Source
What changed that round
Request limit raised to $200,000 per site; first-time recipients get 15 bonus points; because of the late timing, funds went to states as risk-based allocations before the competitive subaward process. Source

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