$13,500,000 tribal security grants
Grant Website, Guidelines and NOFO
Funding Opportunity Number: DHS-24-GPD-067-00-99
Assistance Listing #: 97.067
Grant Deadline
June 24, 2024, 5 p.m. ET
Federal grants available for federally recognized, directly eligible tribes
The Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Tribal Homeland Security Grant Program (THSGP) is one of three grant programs that support DHS/FEMA’s focus on enhancing the ability of state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, as well as nonprofit organizations, to prevent, prepare for, protect against, and respond to terrorist attacks. These grant programs are part of a comprehensive set of measures authorized by Congress and implemented by DHS to help strengthen the nation’s communities against potential terrorist attacks.
Priorities: Given the evolving national security threat landscape, DHS/FEMA continuously evaluates the national risk profile and sets priorities that help inform appropriate allocation of scarce security dollars. In assessing the national risk profile for FY 2024, six areas attract the most concern and thus are national priority areas:
- Enhancing cybersecurity;
- Enhancing the protection of soft targets/crowded places;
- Enhancing information and intelligence sharing and analysis;
- Combating domestic violent extremism;
- Enhancing community preparedness and resilience; and
- Enhancing election security
What this grant does for your agency
Tribal Nations face substantially increased risks that are not adequately addressed through other existing grant programs. Factors such as remote locations, limited access to resources, technological infrastructure challenges, and historical tensions make them more susceptible to emerging threats. The need to bolster technology and information infrastructure is crucial to address these challenges adequately. The THSGP respects the sovereign rights of Tribal Nations by allowing them to apply and be awarded preparedness grant funding as a direct recipient to address their unique risks and needs.
For FY 2024, DHS is focused on the criticality of information sharing and collaboration to building a national culture of preparedness and protecting against terrorism and other threats to our national security. The threats to our nation have evolved during the past two decades. We now face continuous cyber threats by sophisticated actors, threats to soft targets and crowded places, and threats from domestic violent extremists, who represent one of the most persistent threats to the nation today. Therefore, for FY 2024, DHS has identified six priority areas related to the most serious threats to the nation. Recipients are not required, but are encouraged, to address those priority areas with their THSGP funds.
Agencies awarded the FY 2024 DHS Tribal Homeland Security Grant Program receive funding directly to eligible tribes to strengthen their capacities to prevent, prepare for, protect against, and respond to potential terrorist attacks.
Estimated Total Program Funding: $13,500,000
Period of Performance: 36 months
Projected Period of Performance Start Date(s): 09/01/2024
Projected Period of Performance End Date(s): 08/31/2024
Only a limited number of grants will be awarded.
Grant Eligibility
For full eligibility details, see the Grant Guidelines:
To be eligible to receive THSGP funding, recipients must be directly eligible tribes. Directly eligible tribes are federally recognized tribes that meet the criteria set forth in Section 2001 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, as amended (6 U.S.C. § 601).
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Grant Deadline
Grant applications are due no later than 11:59 p.m. EST, June 24, 2024.
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Apply for the FY 2024 DHS Tribal Homeland Security Grant Program