No active solicitation right now. Apply through your State Administering Agency, not directly to FEMA. Contact your state homeland security office early.
Browse active grants →The largest federal preparedness grant program — $1 billion+ annually distributed to states for terrorism prevention and all-hazards preparedness. Forensic labs access funds through their State Administrative Agency for qualifying equipment and technology.
Labs do not apply directly to FEMA. You apply through your state administering agency (SAA), whose own deadlines often come several months before the federal one, so contact your SAA early.
Select your state to see its FY2026 HSGP allocation and the agency that administers it.
States are direct recipients. Forensic labs access HSGP through their State Administering Agency — not directly from FEMA. Labs must demonstrate how their project supports preparedness goals.
Awards per year: FY2021 57 · FY2022 57 · FY2023 57 · FY2024 56 · FY2025 57
Round totals: FEMA award data (OpenFEMA). Award lists: USAspending.gov, plus DOJ’s own award list for rounds USAspending is missing.
General advice for this program, not taken from the notice. The notice’s own review criteria are what reviewers actually score, so check these against it.
Explicitly map your forensic lab's proposed capabilities—such as CBRN evidence analysis or cyber forensics—to your State Homeland Security Strategy's identified gaps and priorities, citing specific threat scenarios by name.
Show how your lab will serve as a regional hub by including signed MOUs or letters of commitment from neighboring jurisdictions, quantifying the number of agencies and population served by the enhanced forensic capacity.
Do not propose using HSGP funds primarily for recurring operational expenses like general staff salaries or routine reagent supplies, as reviewers will flag requests lacking a clear capability-building or sustainment nexus to homeland security threats.
Failing to reference your state's Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) and Stakeholder Preparedness Review (SPR) data will weaken your justification, as proposals lacking this evidence appear disconnected from the state's formally documented preparedness gaps.
A starting list, not the official one. Each notice ends with its own application checklist, and that is the list to work from once a round opens.
