The Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grant program makes federal funds available to states, U.S. territories, federally recognized Tribal nations1, and local governments for hazard mitigation activities.
Donor Name: Department of Homeland Security
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/23/2026
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
It does so by recognizing the need to upgrade and modernize the nation’s infrastructure against the growing risks to communities and the need for natural hazard risk mitigation activities that promote resilience with respect to natural hazards.
Goals and Objectives
- BRIC aims to shift the focus of federal investments away from reactive post-disaster spending towards proactive infrastructure-focused hazard mitigation. For this funding opportunity, the program prioritizes investment in infrastructure and construction projects that deliver immediate, measurable risk reduction to communities vulnerable to natural hazards. BRIC emphasizes the adoption and enforcement of modern building codes and limits capability- and capacity-building activities to those directly tied to infrastructure resilience, such as building code adoption and enforcement.
- By prioritizing investment in construction projects that are ready to implement and increasing geographic distribution of hazard mitigation investments, BRIC aims to accelerate and improve nationwide project delivery. For this funding opportunity, the program caps single project and per applicant funding amounts to distribute investments and prioritizes selection of new applicants and subapplicants as well as small impoverished communities in the National Competition.
- BRIC maximizes state and local responsibility for resilience by focusing federal resources on projects that directly support infrastructure and risk reduction rather than investing in a wide range of activities.
Funding Information
- Available Funding for the NOFO: $1,000,000,000
- State/Territory Allocation Subtotal: $112,000,000
- Tribal Set-Aside Subtotal: $50,000,000
- State/Territory Building Code Plus-Up Subtotal: $56,000,000
- Tribal Building Code Plus-Up Subtotal: $25,000,000
- National Competition Subtotal: $757,000,000.
Grant Period
36 months from date of the award unless otherwise specified by FEMA.
Eligible Activities
Eligible applicant or subapplicant management cost activities may include:
- Solicitation, review, and processing of subapplications and subawards
- Subapplication development and technical assistance to subapplicants regarding feasibility and effectiveness and BCA
- Delivery of technical assistance (e.g., training) to support the implementation of hazard mitigation activities
- Managing awards (e.g., quarterly reporting including managing Go/No-Go milestones for hazard mitigation projects submitted under the National Competition, closeout)
- Technical monitoring (e.g., site visits, technical meetings)
- Purchase of equipment, per diem and travel expenses, and professional development that is directly related to the implementation of HMA programs
- Staff salary costs directly related to performing the activities listed above.
Eligibility Criteria
Individuals, businesses, and nonprofit organizations are not eligible to apply for BRIC funds as an applicant or subapplicant; however, an eligible applicant or subapplicant may apply for funding on behalf of individuals, businesses, and nonprofit organizations.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
