Your Part-Time Controller (YPTC) is committed to supporting Southern California nonprofits. This blog post shares funding opportunities available to help organizations affected by the recent wildfires.

 

Federal Resources for NONPROFITS AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES: 

 

Department of Homeland Security – FEMA: 

Grant: The “Fiscal Year 2024 Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC)”  

  • Opportunity number: DHS-24-MT-047-00-98 
  • Posted Jan. 6, 2025 
  • Application deadline: April 18, 2025 
  • Grant ceiling / funding pool: $150 million / $750 million  
  • Eligibility: State/County/City/Tribal governments, Tribal organizations. (City and county governments must apply through the relevant state or territory.) 
  • Objective: Grants are intended as pre-disaster investments in risk mitigation activities that promote climate adaptation and resilience and help to reduce later reliance on disaster relief grants.  

 

Department of the Interior – Bureau of Land Management (BLM): 

Grant: FY25 IIJA/IRA Bureau of Land Management California Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance

  • Opportunity number: L25AS00205 
  • Posted Jan. 10, 2025 
  • Application deadline: March 11, 2025 
  • Grant ceiling / funding pool: $10 million / $10 million  
  • Eligibility: Nonprofits, State/County/City/Tribal governments, public or private institutions of higher education 

Objective: BLM California seeks to work with partner organizations to assist with fuels management and community fire assistance program activities to reduce the risk and impact of catastrophic wildfires to local communities through coordination, reducing the amount of hazardous fuels, and furthering the education of landowners about wildfire prevention and mitigation. (Note this was originally conceived of as pre-disaster assistance.) 

 

Small Business Administration (SBA): 

Loans: California Wildfires program  

  • Opportunity number: none necessary 
  • Posted Jan. 13, 2025 
  • Application deadline: Until funds expended 
  • Grant ceiling / funding pool: not indicated 
  • Elibility: Nonprofits, for-profits, individuals 
  • Objective: SBA disaster assistance for homeowners, renters, nonprofits, and businesses of all sizes affected by the wildfires and straight-line winds in California. 

 

Types of available disaster loans: 

  • Home Disaster Loans: Loans to homeowners or renters to repair or replace disaster-damaged real estate and personal property, including automobiles. 
  • Business Physical Disaster Loans: Loans to businesses to repair or replace disaster-damaged property owned by the business, including real estate, inventories, supplies, machinery and equipment. Businesses of any size are eligible. Private, non-profit organizations such as charities, churches, private universities, etc., are also eligible. 
  • Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL): Working capital loans to help small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture, and most private, non-profit organizations of all sizes meet their ordinary and necessary financial obligations that cannot be met as a direct result of the disaster. These loans are intended to assist through the disaster recovery period. 

 

USDA – Forest Service: 

Grant: The “Community Wildfire Defense Grant 2024 (FY25) West”  

  • Opportunity number: USDA-FS-2024-CWDG-CWSF 
  • Posted Nov. 21, 2024 
  • Application deadline: Feb. 28, 2025 
  • Grant ceiling / funding pool: $10 million / $200 million [it is possible this will be increased] 
  • Eligibility: Nonprofits, State/County/City/Tribal governments, public institutions of higher education 
  • Objective: Grants are intended to benefit “…at-risk communities in an area identified as having high or very high wildfire hazard potential, are low-income, and/or have been impacted by a severe disaster.”  

 

Foundation Resources for NONPROFITS AND/OR INDIVIDUALS 

 

 

Federal Resources for INDIVIDUALS: 

 

Department of Homeland Security – FEMA: 

 

Housing and Urban Development (HUD): 

Resource: HUD Offers Aid to California Disaster Victims (press release with multiple resources and links re mortgage protections, housing assistance) 

 

State and Local California Resources for INDIVIDUALS 

 

 

For help researching and applying, contact YPTC’s government funding department.