Public Safety · Active
Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) · FEMA · Sparse NOFO · mid band
Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) (CFDA 97.044) - federal assistance administered by Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $10K–$1M
- Typical award range
- 1
- Indexed opportunities
- 0
- Open now
- FEMA
- Administering agency
The verdict
According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) ranks #115 of 504, #3 of 13 within FEMA, and #34 of 38 among Public Safety programs by listed funding ceiling. Across 504 active programs, 47.041 leads by opportunity count (319, funding-ceiling rank #249) ≠ 66.054 leads by funding ceiling ($7.0 billion, opportunity rank #326). CFDA 97.044 is an active Public Safety program with 1 indexed Grants.gov opportunity. Of the 20 most recent listings shown here, 0 are open for application.
- $10K–$1M
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- -
- next application deadline
- $35.0 million
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 8%
- of the catalog is Public Safety
Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) · lower-band quiet listing (#420/502 by ceiling)
Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) sits below most listed ceilings (16th percentile among 502 active programs), a floor-band Assistance Listing card, not a mega solicitation.
Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) vs programs with listed funding ceilings
Where this CFDA's SAM.gov award ceiling sits among active Assistance Listings with a reported ceiling
$1,000,000 Top 84% higher than 16% of 502 programs
Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling
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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2026-05-29
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 97.044 · FEMA VOL-SPARSE · #115/504
VOL-SPARSE · UPPER-Q · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-CLOSED · CEIL-MILLION · ELIG-MIX · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-SPARSE 1 indexed
- UPPER-Q #115/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-CLOSED 0 open of 20 listed
- CEIL-MILLION $10K–$1M
- ELIG-MIX 2 eligible desks
- BOOK-FULL 20 listed / 1 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 97.044
VOL-SPARSE · #115/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
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Funding posture
Few announcements, mid-scale dollars
Mid-band ceiling ($10,000 to $1.0 million) with only 1 indexed Grants.gov rows for Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG). Competitive traffic is light relative to the printed award size, so deadlines on the sparse NOFO list matter more than catalog rank.
Assistance Listing text · FEMA
Funds fire departments and EMS organizations for equipment, training, and programs protecting the public.
Civic applicant mix · government + nonprofit doors
Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) combines government/tribal and nonprofit applicant types (2 doors). The listing is a civic funding corridor spanning public and nonprofit operators.
Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 97.044
97% of the 36 indexed listings under CFDA 97.044 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) typically uses to move money. 92% of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $6.8 billion across 35 listings (avg $193.2 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 63,101 across 35 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 97.044, not the 10 listings shown below; a listing missing a field is excluded from that field's total, not counted as zero.
Archived NOFO book · CFDA 97.044
None of the 36 indexed Grants.gov listings under CFDA 97.044 are open on the current extract. Reported award ceilings swing from $4,000 to $35.0 million (9859×); treat any single listing's ceiling as a local bound, not the program's typical award. 94% of listings carry the Other (O) funding-activity code.
- Open vs archived (indexed book)
- 0 open · 36 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $2.8 million (33 listings with a ceiling)
- Dominant Grants.gov funding-activity code
- Other (O)
Open counts use the same posted+close_date rule as the rest of PlainGrants; funding-activity codes are the Grants.gov category_of_funding field (first code when several are joined). Ceiling median is over positive reported ceilings only.
FEMA · administering agency
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation programs for communities.
Grants.gov opportunities · CFDA 97.044
Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 Fire Prevention and Safety Grant Program (FP
Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Assistance to Firefighters Grants (AFG) Program
Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program (AFG)
Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program, Fire Prevention and Safety Grants
Fiscal Year 2023 Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG)
Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program, Fire Prevention and Safety Grants
FY 2022 Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program (AFG)
Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program, Fire Prevention and Safety Grants
FY 2021 Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program (AFG)
FY 2020 Fire Prevention and Safety Grant
Showing 10 of the 20 most recent listings (1 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 97.044: 1 indexed opportunities · 0 open on the recent slice.
- No open Grants.gov rows on the recent slice, watch this CFDA for the next NOFO drop. How to apply
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) administers 13 Assistance Listings in this extract. Agency catalog
- Nearest peer by listed ceiling: Medical Library Assistance (93.879). Compare program
SAM.gov ceilings are catalog maximums, not guaranteed awards; verify every deadline on Grants.gov before submitting.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure on PlainGrants is rendered directly from SAM.gov Assistance Listings data, no number is typed in by an editor. This grant program's figures are rendered directly from SAM.gov Assistance Listings data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data issue on this page.
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| Sources | the SAM.gov Assistance Listings and Grants.gov |