Assistance program
Disaster Assistance Projects
$646.2 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Federal Emergency Management Agency, Homeland Security, Department of
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements
- CFDA number
- 97.088
- What it does
- This category is not for unsolicited proposals. Provides funding that has been designated by Congressionally appropriated authorization, generally for a specified project, or to provide unique or limited scope funding for certain disaster assistance Projects identified by Congress or a DHS program office. Program funds support the National Preparedness Goal of enhancing core capabilities in the areas of disaster response and recovery. One such disaster project is the Disaster Case Management (DCM) Program, which is a disaster-related federal award. DCM supports the Recovery core capability and mission area as defined in the National Preparedness Goal. The objective of DCM is to assist individuals and households through the recovery process by connecting survivors with local resources to meet their disaster-caused unmet needs. A disaster-caused unmet need is any un-resourced item, support, or assistance that has been assessed and verified as necessary for a survivor to recover from disaster. This may include but is not limited to: food, clothing, shelter, first aid, emotional and spiritual care, household items, temporary housing, home repair, or rebuilding.
- Who benefits
- Funding is restricted to nonfederal entities providing case management services to individuals and families impacted by a major disaster declared under the Stafford Act with Individual Assistance authorized. See IAPPG 1.1., at p. 188. The need for DCM must exceed the capacity of the SLTT government.
- Who applies
- State (includes the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories), local government (includes state-designated Indian tribes), public or private non-profit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals), public or private profit institution/organization, and federally-recognized Indian tribal governments. Funds are restricted to non-federal entities, e.g., state, local government, private, public, profit or nonprofit organization, Indian tribal government.
- Authorized by
- Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, as amended, Section 426, Public Law 93-288, 42 U.S.C. 5189d, authorizing DCM Disaster Recovery Reform Act of 2018, Public Law 115-254
- Program site
- http://www.fema.gov ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments