Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Fire Prevention and Safety (FP&S) Grant Program
General information
The FY 2025 FP&S Grant Program is one of three grant programs that constitute the DHS and FEMA’s focus on enhancing the safety of the public and firefighters with respect to fire and fire-related hazards. The FP&S Program provides financial assistance directly to eligible fire departments, national, regional, state, local, tribal and non-profit organizations such as academic (e.g. universities), research foundations, public safety institutes, public health, occupational health, and injury prevention institutions for fire prevention programs and firefighter safety, health, or well-being research and development.
The funding categories for FP&S are:
1. Community Risk Reduction; 2. Wildfire Risk Reduction; 3. Code Enforcement/Awareness; 4. Origin and Cause Investigation; and 5. National/State/Regional Programs and Projects.
The funding categories for R&D are:
1. Clinical Studies; 2. Technology and Product Development; 3. Preliminary Studies; and, 4. Early Career Investigator.
Funding details
Funding application timeline
Grant eligibility
Fire departments operating in any of the 50 states, as well as fire departments in the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,1 or any federally recognized Indian tribe or tribal organization. A fire department is an agency or organization having a formally recognized arrangement with a state, local, tribal, or territorial authority (city, county, parish, fire district, township, town, or other governing body) to provide fire suppression to a population within a geographically fixed primary first due response area. National, regional, state, local tribal Nation and nonprofit interest organizations that are recognized for their experience and expertise in fire prevention and safety programs and activities are eligible applicants. Both private and public nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply for funding under this activity.