Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) FY 2024-25: Historical Reference for the Closed July 23, 2026 Cycle

Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) FY 2024-25: Historical Reference for the Closed July 23, 2026 Cycle

This funding opportunity is closed and this page is a historical reference. FEMA’s combined Fiscal Year 2024 and Fiscal Year 2025 Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) notice was posted on March 25, 2026 under funding opportunity number DHS-25-MT-047-00-98. The official Grants.gov record lists the application window as closing on July 23, 2026 and the record’s archive date as August 22, 2026. There is no open application package in the verified record and no replacement BRIC deadline is published there.

The program page on FEMA.gov remains the correct place to identify BRIC and find FEMA’s program materials. For the status, amount, eligibility, closing date, and submission route for this particular cycle, the Grants.gov record is the decisive source. It identifies the agency as the Department of Homeland Security — Federal Emergency Management Agency and lists Assistance Listing 97.047. Because the cycle has ended, readers should not treat the date in this page’s deadline field as a live invitation to apply; it is the real closing date preserved for archive purposes.

Key details at a glance

The large total should not be mistaken for a guaranteed award to any one applicant. BRIC is a competitive hazard-mitigation program. The notice divides the money among funding categories, and each category has its own rules, caps, and review path. The Grants.gov synopsis reports the overall program amount and award ceiling; the notice materials provide the more useful category-level limits for applicants planning a project.

What the FY 2024-25 notice was intended to fund

BRIC supports pre-disaster mitigation: work intended to reduce the risk that natural hazards will damage people, buildings, infrastructure, and essential community services. The combined cycle places a strong emphasis on physical infrastructure and construction projects that produce a clear, measurable reduction in hazard risk. That focus matters for organizations that know BRIC mainly from earlier rounds with broader planning or capability-building options.

The cycle also gives building codes a prominent role. Code adoption and enforcement activities can be relevant where they are directly connected to infrastructure resilience and fall within the applicable funding category. A prospective applicant therefore needed to read the complete notice rather than assume that any resilience-related planning idea would fit. A good concept had to connect the proposed work to an eligible hazard, an eligible activity, an eligible applicant and subapplicant structure, and a credible reduction in risk.

The notice’s infrastructure focus can cover projects involving critical community systems and facilities, such as transportation, water, wastewater, utilities, communications, public buildings, and other assets whose failure would affect public safety or basic services. The strongest application narrative would explain the hazard, identify the vulnerable asset, describe the proposed mitigation, and show why the project is technically feasible and cost-effective. General resilience language without a defined asset, scope, budget, and risk-reduction result would not be enough.

Funding structure and cost share

The $1 billion available in the cycle was distributed across several streams rather than offered as one undifferentiated pool. The notice materials identify a National Competition, State or Territory Allocation, Tribal Set-Aside, State or Territory Building Code Plus-Up, and Tribal Building Code Plus-Up. The category structure affects who can submit, what activities can be proposed, the size of a request, and how the application is evaluated.

For the National Competition, a project subapplication could request up to $20 million in federal share. The State or Territory Allocation was capped at $2 million per state or territory across its activities, including management costs. The Tribal Set-Aside also used a $2 million maximum submission cap for an eligible applicant. The building-code plus-up categories used a $1 million maximum per state or territory or other applicable applicant. The notice also limited the amount any single applicant could receive across the combined funding categories.

BRIC is not a no-match grant. The standard structure is a 75 percent federal share and a 25 percent non-federal share. The notice provides a higher federal share for a small impoverished community, and it includes a limited waiver rule for qualifying insular-area awards when the non-federal share for the entire award is below the stated threshold. Applicants needed to document the proposed match and confirm that it was allowable. A budget that showed only the federal request, without a credible non-federal share, would leave a central application requirement unresolved.

Who could participate

The direct applicant groups listed in the federal record include state governments, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories, federally recognized Tribal governments, and eligible local-government entities such as county and city or township governments. The Grants.gov eligibility text also references other Native American tribal organizations and directs readers to the additional eligibility information for the full rule set.

Local governments were not meant to bypass the applicant structure. The official eligibility note says that local governments must apply through their state or territory. In practical terms, a city, county, township, special district, or similar local entity generally prepared a subapplication and worked through the relevant state or territorial applicant agency. A federally recognized Tribal government could have a direct applicant route under the applicable BRIC category or participate as a subapplicant where the notice allowed it.

That distinction affects the timeline as much as the federal closing date. A local government needed to contact its State Hazard Mitigation Officer or equivalent office early enough for local review, corrections, prioritization, and transmission through the applicant agency. The federal date was not necessarily the local government’s internal deadline. Since this cycle is closed, those internal deadlines are no longer a route into the completed opportunity, but the structure remains useful context for interpreting the archived notice and preparing for a future announcement.

How applications were prepared and submitted

The application path for this cycle ran through FEMA Grants Outcomes rather than a normal direct upload to the public Grants.gov listing. Grants.gov provided the official opportunity record and notice documents; applicants used the FEMA GO system to assemble and submit the FEMA application or subapplication. The following sequence describes the cycle’s process at a practical level:

1. Confirm the applicant role. A state, territory, District of Columbia, or eligible Tribal government needed to determine whether it was applying directly. A local government or special district needed to coordinate with its state or territory and follow that applicant agency’s subapplication instructions.
2. Establish federal registrations. The organization needed the identifiers and active registrations required for federal assistance, including a UEI, EIN, and active SAM.gov registration. The authorized organization representative also needed the appropriate FEMA GO access. Registration work should have started before the application was drafted because inactive or incomplete records can prevent submission.
3. Define an eligible project. The applicant needed a specific hazard-mitigation project, a clear scope of work, a line-item budget, a schedule, and a description of the infrastructure or community asset being protected. The proposal had to fit the selected BRIC funding category and the notice’s activity rules.
4. Assemble supporting evidence. The package needed to address technical feasibility, cost effectiveness through an accepted benefit-cost approach, environmental and historic-preservation requirements where applicable, the required mitigation-plan consistency, and the non-federal share. Design maturity and project readiness were important because FEMA evaluated whether the proposed work could be carried out as described.
5. Submit through FEMA GO. The authorized representative needed to complete the application in FEMA GO and retain the system’s confirmation and tracking information. Local subapplicants also needed to follow the separate transmission process set by their state or territory applicant agency.

Those steps are useful for interpreting the archived opportunity, but they are not a way to submit now. The official Grants.gov record shows that no opportunity package remains available for submission. A late application, an email to FEMA, or a new FEMA GO draft cannot reopen this closed federal competition.

What applicants should do after the deadline

If an organization missed this cycle, the sensible next step is to preserve the project work rather than reuse the closed deadline. Keep the hazard analysis, preliminary or detailed design, benefit-cost work, cost estimate, match plan, permits, and mitigation-plan documentation together. Keep the state or territorial contact informed as well. Those materials can be revised when FEMA announces a new opportunity, but they should not be presented as an application to this one.

Readers should monitor both the FEMA BRIC program page and Grants.gov. A future notice may use a different funding opportunity number, funding amount, activity mix, application system instruction, or closing date. The presence of this archived page is not evidence that a new round is open. As of the verified record used for this update, no next BRIC cycle or future deadline has been announced.

FAQ

Can I still apply to FY 2024-25 BRIC?

No. The official record shows that the application window closed on July 23, 2026, and that the package is no longer available for submission.

Is the program permanently discontinued?

This page does not claim that BRIC has been permanently discontinued. It records a completed funding opportunity. FEMA’s program page remains the official program reference, but no successor deadline is published in the verified Grants.gov record. Do not substitute a guessed annual date for an announced notice.

How much money was available?

The cycle listed $1 billion in estimated total program funding. That amount covered the funding categories in the notice and was not a promise that every eligible project would be funded. The Grants.gov synopsis lists a $150 million award ceiling, while the notice’s category rules set narrower limits for particular request types.

Could a county or city apply directly?

Not under the ordinary local-government route described in the record. Local governments had to apply through their state or territory. The direct applicant and Tribal-government rules depended on the selected BRIC category and the complete notice.

Where was the application submitted?

Applicants used FEMA Grants Outcomes at go.fema.gov. Grants.gov hosted the opportunity record and related documents, but the FEMA GO submission route governed the completed BRIC application.

What should a future applicant prepare?

Prepare a defined mitigation project, a credible design and cost estimate, a benefit-cost analysis, documentation of plan consistency, an allowable match, and the organizational registrations needed for FEMA GO. Then check the new notice for changed eligibility, funding categories, caps, forms, and deadline before relying on any older BRIC materials.

Official links

• FEMA BRIC program page: https://www.fema.gov/grants/mitigation/learn/building-resilient-infrastructure-communities
• Official Grants.gov record for DHS-25-MT-047-00-98: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/361620
• FEMA Grants Outcomes: https://go.fema.gov/

This archive is meant to answer two questions clearly: what the FY 2024-25 BRIC opportunity offered, and whether someone can apply today. It offered $1 billion for infrastructure-focused hazard mitigation through a FEMA-managed application process. The cycle is closed, its July 23, 2026 deadline should remain attached to the historical record, and no later BRIC deadline should be invented until FEMA or Grants.gov publishes one.