Department of Homeland Security - FEMA · Department of Homeland Security
Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) Grant Program
Key facts
- Deadline
- Next round: about May 18 – Jun 22, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder ?
- Award size
- Not stated: see the official notice
- Total available
- $324M
- Match ?
- Not required · Work out your budget and match
- Who can apply
- Tribal government, City or town government, County government, Nonprofit with 501(c)(3), and others named in the official notice
- Where
- Anywhere in the U.S., including Tennessee
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How this fits you
- Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- No match required
- Past Tennessee awards on file: 139
Tell us who you are to see whether you're eligible.
Official notice: https://simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/42890f07-ec2b-42b8-8ff2-778f17022960 · Printed from grantme.click/grants/ea6dc49a-eb31-4af3-abe1-c73162d17428
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About this grant
Who can apply, from the official notice
Who in Tennessee has won this program
134 awards to Tennessee groups in 26 counties since 2013. Largest shown:
| Past winner | Where | Amount | Fiscal year |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Memphis, Tennessee | $25M | 2016 | |
| City of Memphis, Tennessee | Memphis, Shelby County | $13.8M | 2024 |
| City of Memphis, Tennessee | Memphis, Shelby County | $10.8M | 2022 |
| City of Memphis, Tennessee | Memphis, Shelby County | $8M | 2018 |
| City of Memphis | Memphis, Shelby County | $7.5M spent that year | 2025 |
| City of Memphis, Tennessee | Memphis, Shelby County | $4.4M | 2019 |
| City of Spring Hill | Spring Hill, Maury County | $3.2M | |
| City of Clarksville | Clarksville, Montgomery County | $2.7M | 2020 |
| City of Murfreesboro | $2.5M | 2017 | |
| City of Hendersonville | Hendersonville, Sumner County | $1.8M | 2018 |
| City of Gallatin | $1.5M | 2010 | |
| County of Rutherford | $1.5M | 2013 |
Source: OpenFEMA, USAspending.gov, Federal Audit Clearinghouse. Past awards show who this program funds. They don't guarantee future awards.
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), OpenFEMA Datasets: FEMA Non-Disaster Assistance Firefighter Grants - v1 and HMA Subapplications - v2. Retrieved Oct 7, 2026, 12:23 PM CDT. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
Tennessee groups that got this money through a state agency or another organization
This federal money also reaches local groups as pass-through grants. In Tennessee, Tennessee Department of Military and Tennessee Emergency Management Agency pass it on: watch those agencies for applications, not the federal agency. 5 pass-through grants on file. Largest shown:
| Past winner | Where | Through | Amount | Fiscal year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Town of Nolensville, Tennessee | Nolensville, Williamson County | Tennessee Emergency Management Agency | $476K spent that year | 2025 |
| Chester County, Tennessee | Henderson, Chester County | Tennessee Department of Military | $106K spent that year | 2025 |
| Hardin County, Tennessee | Savannah, Hardin County | State Department of Commerce and Insurance | $103K spent that year | 2025 |
| Mcnairy County, Tennessee | Selmer, McNairy County | Tennessee Department of Military | $100K spent that year | 2023 |
| Town of Ashland City | Ashland City, Cheatham County | State of Tennessee | $9,448 spent that year | 2024 |
Source: USAspending.gov pass-through reports (the first recipient reports each one of $30,000 or more).
About the federal program
Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER), also called “Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response”
Program number 97.083 (the federal Assistance Listing number) · U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency · Project grant
How applications are judged
Match
None required (federal program listing).