Securing Communities Against Hate Crimes (SCAHC) Grant Program is sponsored by New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services. Grant program funding safety and security projects at nonprofit organizations at risk of hate crimes.

Security Grant Program Updates - Community Security Initiative Learn how to Prequalify in NY Sometimes reliable rumors (without official confirmation) indicate that the NSGP 2025 applicants will be notified in late June and the NSGP Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) will be released in July. Get started now! Expect a very short turnaround.

NY applicants should prequalify, or if they think they are prequalified check their expiration date . Applicants need a “current” Vulnerability Assessment for each location applied for. NY DHSES considers Vulnerability Assessments current if they are less than three years old and accurately reflects the threats and vulnerabilities of your facility.

Contact your Regional Security Director to request an updated threat assessment. NY Hate Crimes Grants (SCAHC) Governor Kathy Hochul announced up to $70 million in funding through the Securing Communities Against Hate Crimes program for NY, nonprofit, community-based organizations facing heightened threats linked to ongoing conflict in the Middle East.

Total Program Funding: Up to $70 million Applicant Award Cap: Up to $250,000 per organization (combined physical security and cybersecurity projects) Application Deadline: Noon (DST), Wednesday, July 8, 2026 Eligible Uses Include, but not limited to: Exterior and interior security improvements (e.g., lighting, locks, alarms, panic buttons, fencing, barriers, access controls, shatter-resistant glass, blast-resistant film). g.

, lighting, locks, alarms, panic buttons, fencing, barriers, access controls, shatter-resistant glass, blast-resistant film) Cybersecurity enhancements Impact protection measures “With the conflict we are seeing globally, it is more important than ever to ensure that New York remains a safe haven for all,” Governor Hochul said.

“This funding reflects our commitment to stand by communities facing threats because of who they are, what they believe or how they live. These investments will help organizations across our state strengthen security, protect the people they serve and continue bringing communities together. ” Click here to download the SCAHC Request for Applications with full details.

Click here to download the SCAHC Questions and Answers. Click the link to download CSI’s Applying for the Securing Communities Against Hate Crimes Grants 2026 slides. (The slides were updated on June 5, 2026.)

Connecticut Nonprofit Security Grant Program The State of Connecticut Nonprofit Security Grant Program (CT-NSGP) is a state funded competitive grant program that provides reimbursement for expenses that an eligible nonprofit organization has incurred for security infrastructure improvements. Eligible applicants are 501(c)(3) organizations that are at heightened risk of being the target of a terrorist attack, hate crime, or violent act.

Eligible applicants must own the building at the time of application and throughout the project completion. This will become the fourth round of the grant program since its creation. Each of the previous rounds also provided $5 million in grants and were awarded in 2021, 2023, and 2024.

This will become the fourth round of the grant program since its creation. Each of the previous rounds also provided $5 million in grants and were awarded in 2021, 2023, and 2024. Eligible nonprofits can receive a maximum of $50,000 per site.

Allowable activities include security infrastructure improvements to enhance security and target hardening of eligible nonprofit buildings based on security assessments. Eligible nonprofits can receive a maximum of $50,000 per site. Allowable activities include security infrastructure improvements to enhance security and target hardening of eligible nonprofit buildings based on security assessments.

Applications will be available here in July. We haven't heard whether we were awarded a NSGP grant. Should we apply for a NY Hate Crimes grant?

There is no perfect answer. Neither grant will pay for items funded by another grant, but you are not funded for another grant until you sign a contract with NY State. FEMA officials say that they want to make the award decisions soon.

If you hit the lottery and win both grants, it is relatively easy to modify your NY State grant budget to purchase other eligible items, but changes to the NSGP often require DHSES to ask for permission from FEMA. Many organizations have applied for the Hate Crimes grants while waiting for the NSGP results and modified their program purchases later.

Applying for the NYS Hate Crimes (SCAHC) seems harder than applying for the federal NSGP. Should we skip the NYS grant and wait for the NSGP 2026? All things being equal, the odds of a successful NYS SCAHC (Hate Crimes) grant are better than a successful NSGP application.

In 2025, FEMA allocated $32,004,033 to NY for the NSGP, translating to ~140 grants in NYC, LI and Westchester and ~18 upstate. There were 997 NSGP 2025 applications submitted in January, 2026 giving applicants an average of only 15% success. But those odds are deceiving.

U.S. DHS’ risk algorithm allocated 21% of the national NSGP-UA funding to NY. The NSGP-S program is basically divided among 54 states and territories, so upstate NY applicants are limited to only 3% of the national allocation. In comparison, NY’s SCAHC is generous, with $70 million allocated this round, or 280 grants.

There are likely to be twice as many Hate Crimes grantees as NSGP 2025 winners. Yes, it will be more work, but you have to be in it to win it. Learn how to Prequalify in NY Click on the slide to enlarge and read NY DHSES sent all qualifying application packages to U.S. DHS at the end of January, and those who applied are waiting with bated breath.

The good news was that over 1,000 organizations submitted packages in through E-Grants. The bad news is that there will only be 1,300-1,400 winners. Meanwhile, the NY Legislature allocated $35 million in 2025 and Governor Hochul recommended another $35 million in 2026 for the NY Securing Communities Against Hate Crimes (Hate Crimes) grants.

NY DCJS will issue a Request for Applications in the near future, with time for organizations to develop their request (perhaps a May-ish submission deadline) and learn if they were successful in Fall 2026. While Congress and the Administration Congress agreed on a budget of $300 million for NSGP for 2026 — a small increase from the funding provided in 2024 and 2025 — the program is mired in the DHS shutdown.

There is no hope for NSGP until the DHS shutdown is resolved. Some things will move slower NY DHSES already has the funding for NSGP 2025. However, NSGP 2025 winners must complete Environmental and Historic Preservation (EHP) Requirements , which require approval from DHS FEMA (as do IJ modifications).

Don’t be surprised if there are delays due to the shutdown. NY: Check if you’re still prequalified. Special warning re SFS/Prequalification: The financial submissions to SFS must be regularly updated.

If your organization is already prequalified, we advise you to check the expiration date and to update your documents, if necessary, ASAP. Here’s a step-by-step tutorial. New York .

NY organizations should check the DHSES Nonprofit page often. Contact DHSES at 1-866-837-9133 or email them at Grant. Info@dhses.

ny. gov . Connecticut.

Cl ick here for the CT Federal Nonprofit Security Program webpage. Everyone . Don’t forget the dedicated CSI Security Grants Webpage .

Applicants in other states should consult with their own authorities . Click to the State Administrative Agency (SAA) Contact List to find the right contact for your state.

Have all of the components of your application package ready (see below) to submit via E-Grants in NY ( E-Grants Registration Form ) or the CT DEMHS Electronic Grants Management System , including your NSGP 2025 Investment Justification, mission statement, picture of your facility and assessment. When DHS FEMA gives the go-ahead, NY, DHSES will post information (the NY document is called a Request for Applications) at https://www.

dhses. ny. gov/nonprofit-programs .

Connecticut applicants should click here for more details. NY applicants must be prequalified. Click here to learn how to check your prequalification status and/or whether your prequalification expired.

The 2025 NSGP allocation is 40% less than in 2024, leading to increased competition for the remaining funds. Does the U.S. DHS budget shutdown affect the NSGP grants? Pre-2025 NSGP Grantees.

NYS DHSES already has the funds in hand for grants prior to 2025. Organizations with NSGP grants prior to NSGP 2025 should be purchasing their approved equipment and be working with their DHSES program representative to submit the documentation for reimbursement. We hear that organizations receive reimbursement within 2-3 weeks after their program representative approves the submitted documentation.

There should not be any U.S. DHS related delay. NSGP 2025 Applicants. Those submitting an application for NSGP 2025 were told that the naming of the winners would be in April 2026.

Don’t count on it. All of the states forwarded the NSGP 2025 application packages to DHS by January 31, 2026, so that DHS could do the final review process. No review is happening at this time, so it’s likely that the April date irrelevant.

The delays continue. What probably won’t happen until after the shutdown. NSGP 2024 and NSGP NSS winners are required to submit an EHP Screening form (and have it approved by FEMA) before NY DHSES will sign a contract.

Again, no EHP review is happening due to the shutdown, so grantees cannot move forward with their projects. Similarly, grantees that want to change their projects sometimes need DHS approval. There will be delays in that process, too.

Waiting for NSGP 2026. While Congress has agreed on a $300 million allocation for NSGP 2026, the agreement does not become law until Congress passes the DHS budget and it is signed by the President. More delays.

Are there new terms and conditions relating to immigration, DEI and boycotts? Yes, but CSI urges eligible groups to apply, see Major Jewish groups urge synagogues to seek federal security grants despite Trump’s terms .

In late September, a senior Federal District Court judge granted a motion made by 20 States for a permanent injunction against the Department of Homeland Security immigration terms and conditions, calling them “coercive, ambiguous, unrelated to the purpose of the federal grants, and undermine[s] the system of federalism. ” Among them, the ruling covers the discretionary preparedness grant programs.

NSGP was specifically mentioned within the order as a covered program. In an additional order, the judge added further restrictions against the administration’s attempts to skirt the initial order through a new condition. The decision may be appealed.

Find guidance from CSI’s pro bono counsel below. CSI will update this document and will update it as additional information becomes available. We suggest that applicants consult their own counsel before they sign any contract.

Organizations that win a Nonprofit Security Grant Program 2025 grant must clearly demonstrate how their projects address one of the national priority areas listed below, and how they align with the stated purpose and objectives of the FY 2025 NSGP NOFO. In addition, organizations must certify that: They do not advance DEI or DEIA .

They will not operate programs that advance diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) or diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA); They do not engage in discriminatory prohibited boycotts.

They will not engage in a discriminatory prohibited boycott (including, but not limited to, engagement in anti-Israel or Israeli products boycotting, discriminating against job applicants or employees based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetic information); and/or They do not have programs benefitting illegal immigrants.

Whether they operate any program that benefits aliens (non-citizens) (required pursuant to Section 6. 11. 3.

4 of the FEMA “Preparedness for Grants Manual”), regardless of whether FEMA funds support such activities. Note that per Section 9(A) of the “The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) NSGP Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) Fiscal Year 2025 Nonprofit Security Grant Program”, a recipient of the Nonprofit Security Grant Program funding opportunity is not required to comply with paragraph C.

IX (Communication and Cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration Officials) paragraph C. XVII(2)(a)(iii) (Anti-Discrimination Grant Award Certification regarding immigration) of the FY 2025 Department of Homeland Security Standard Terms and Conditions, v. 3 (Apr.

18, 2025) with respect to benefitting illegal immigrants or incentivizing illegal immigration; and They address national priority areas (NPAs).

Whether the organization will allocate at least 30% of the grant between the five NPAs reflected below: Enhancing the protection of soft targets/crowded places: No minimum spend; Supporting homeland security task forces and fusion centers: No minimum spend; Enhancing cybersecurity: No minimum spend; Enhancing election security: At least 3% of the grant must be allocated for this priority area; and Supporting border crisis response and enforcement: At least 10% of the grant must be allocated for this priority area.

CSI has asked for clarification on the minimum required priority spending. CSI considers that the NSGP focuses on “Enhancing the protection of soft targets/crowded places” and “Enhancing Cybersecurity” and grant recipients cannot address the other priorities.

NY DHSES, which administers the NSGP in New York State, generally includes these requirements in a contract that New York State and the grant recipients are required to sign, but they may also appear as “assurances” in the E-Grant application system. CSI will update our guidance once the New York State and Connecticut application packages are actually released. What equipment and services are allowable under the grant?

For a detailed lists of the eligible equipment, planning, training, etc. — corresponding to the drop-down categories found on the Investment Justification — click to FY_2025_NSGP_AEL. pdf. How do I open the Investment Justification Template?

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If your organization does not already have a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) obtained via the System for Award Management (SAM) you can request one by visiting https://sam. gov/content/duns-uei . Organizations will be asked for a current and valid Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) with the application.

Organizations should verify that they have a UEI number, or take the steps necessary to obtain one, as soon as possible. Applicants may request a UEI by visiting https://sam. gov/entity-registration .

➢ Please note: You will not be disallowed/disqualified from applying solely based on not having a UEI number at the time of application submission to DHSES. However, if your organization is selected by FEMA to receive funding, you must obtain and provide your UEI number prior to DHSES issuing your subaward. It is therefore recommended to start the process of obtaining a UEI as soon as possible, if you have not already done so.

Guidance on obtaining a UEI in SAM. gov can be found at GSA UEI Update and the Federal Service Desk Knowledge Base . It may take four weeks to obtain a UEI, and applicants should plan accordingly.

Obtaining a UEI does not cost anything; it is free of charge . Click on the image to view the DHS Press Release. The first tranche of NSGP NSS awards are released.

NY DHSES received 600 applications in January, competing for the $210 million available nationwide. Thus far, $94 million in awards were announced, with more to come. When will the 2025 NSGP be released?

We are still kept guessing. FEMA (which managed the NSGP grants over the past few years) has experienced 25% cuts and many experienced managers retired. We have been urged to be patient.

Will they give us time to put our application packages together? Probably not. States might be given 30 days, but NY DHSES needs, at least, two weeks to score the applications (over 700 last year) and a few days to release its Request for Applications .

What can we do now? Scroll down to see CSI’s advice. Special warning re SFS/Prequalification: The financial submissions to SFS must be regularly updated.

If your organization is already prequalified, we advise you to check the expiration date and to update your documents, if necessary, ASAP. Here’s a step-by-step tutorial. For 2024 and earlier grantees, business as usual.

NY DHSES tells us that they are conducting “business as usual” with existing grantees. Currently, they are signing contracts for 2024 grantees and reimbursing groups for the approved expenditures of their projects. CSI recommends that NSGP 2024 grantees should continue to complete the requirements for getting a signed contract with NY State.

All grantees with contracts should proceed with the required steps for NYS Procurement. Will there be NY Hate Crime grants? NY State’s budget contains $35 million for the Securing Communities against Hate Crimes (SCAHC or Hate Crimes) grants.

We hear that “the next round of funding will be made available for applicants in 2026”. More competitive than ever . For 2025, the National NSGP allocation is reduced by almost 40%.

Grants will be much more competitive. Consequently, CSI projects a lower success rate in NY this round (200+ awards vs. 289 in 2024). The 2025-2026 Hate Crimes grants is budgeted at $35 million compared to $60 million last year.

Prequalify . Last year, nearly 100 applications were rejected due to absent or lapsed prequalification! Make sure that you are prequalified or your prequalification is up to date.

Now. Click here for CSI’s Step-by-step Prequalification Tutorial. Nearly 100 of the 2024 NSGP applicants were not prequalified, so their applications were not considered.

Get an assessment. Jewish-affiliated groups in NYC, Long Island, Westchester, Rockland, the Greater Hudson Valley and Southwest Connecticut should click here to request a CSI Terrorism Vulnerability Assessment (TVA). If your TVA is more than three years old you can request an update.

CSI will complete assessments as soon as possible, but some CSI regions are already overbooked. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that we can complete every assessment before the grant deadline. Get your UEI.

If you are awarded an NSGP grant, you will need a UEI (Unique Entity Identifier). If your organization was previously assigned a DUNS Number, it has been replaced by a new UEI (Unique Entity Identifier). Login to sam.

gov to check your new UEI. If your organization has not previously applied for federal assistance, register at sam. gov and you will automatically be assigned a UEI.

There is no charge for sam. gov registration. Get started immediately .

Review the 2024 CSI NSGP Tips . We expect few changes. Download the 2024 NSGP Investment Justification (IJ) and draft your responses.

You will have to cut and paste your answers into the 2025 NSGP IJ when it is released, but you don’t want to wait for the NOFO in case the application window is only a few days. From NY DHSES: NSGP results and failures NY 2023-2024 Securing Communities Against Hate Crimes (SCAHC) 2024 allocation. $60 million, covering 125-300 grants.

Deadline. The application deadline for up to in funding was May 17, 2024. Notifications.

According to the Request for Applications, notifications of awards will be sent “July 2024. ” The NY Division of Criminal Justice services anticipates that there will be approximately 300 grants awarded. Next round.

Another round of SCAHC funding is likely in Spring 2025, after the NY State budget is passed. U.S. Nonprofit Security Grants Program (NSGP) 2024 allocation . The original FY 2024 NSGP NOFO made available $274,500,000 , half allocated to designated urban areas and the other half divided among the states and territories.

In 2023, that formula yielded 212 grants to nonprofits in New York City, Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester received grants and 30 in the rest of New York. Supplemental allocation. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer inserted supplemental funding for the FY 2024 NSGP into the National Security Supplemental ( Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 ), split equally between NSGP-UA and NSGP-S.

Half of the Supplemental was added to the initial allocation, bringing the 2024 total to $434,500,000. Deadline. The NY deadline for the 2024 NSGP was May 21, 2024 and NY DHSES received a record number of applications (up 13% over 2023).

Fortunately, the additional funding will yield more grantees. Those who submitted NSGP application packages in May do not need to do anything else. Bonus round .

Rob Goldberg reports that later this summer FEMA is expected to issue an additional Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) , allocating the second $240 million tranche of supplemental emergency funding, with similar requirements and criteria as the regular annual program. Simply put, there will be a Fall 2024 round of NSGP applications. NSGP 2025.

Congress is already working on the NSGP allocation for next year. HT to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand for circulating a letter in the Senate, calling for $400 million.

The House proposes a $335 million for the program. Plan on a Spring 2025 application period. The National Security Supplemental ( Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act , 2024, Pub.

L. No. 118-50) provided $390 million in supplemental funding for NSGP. $180 million of the funding was added to the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 NSGP Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO).

The remaining $210 million will be awarded as part of the NSGP-NSS. CSI estimates that there will be approximately one-third the number of NSGP-NSS grants, compared to the number awarded in the NSGP 2024 (see the chart). Should you apply?

Our analysis is that unless an institution can document a heightened threat due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, they are less likely to be successful (see more below). Maximum grant amount $200,000 for up to three sites (see RFA for exceptions) Deadline : December 11, 2024 NYS DHSES nonprofit grants page with the NYS Request for Applications (RFA) and all of the required forms, c lick here . Prequalify.

All NY applicants must be prequalified as of December 11, 2024. Click here for more help on how to get prequalified or how to check your expiration date. CSI NSGP-NSS Webinar: Tuesday, November 19, 2024@11:00 EST.

Click here to reserve . We will be available to answer your questions. Before you decide to apply for the NSGP-NSS grant, please consider the following: Priority funding.

​The appropriation for this grant is limited and is weighted to fund applications that can establish a heightened threat due to a “clear connection between the heightened threat they face due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. ” The score of those applications will be multiplied by a factor of four! Ideology-based/spiritual/religious entities (most of our past grantees) will have their scores multiplied by a factor of three.

Less than 100 grants to NY. We don’t know how many applying organizations have a direct nexus, but CSI estimates that there will be fewer than 100 NSGP-NSS grants (there were 288 NY NSGP 2024 winners), and that the vast majority of the winners will be able to document a direct nexus. Time crunch.

All NY applicants must be as of the December 11th deadline (Prequalified status expires every year, pending new information). Organizations that are not prequalified as of the deadline should set their sights on the NSGP 2025 round of grants due in the spring. All applications also require a current assessment.

To apply for a CSI assessment or an update (if your assessment is older than three years) click here. Consortiums. The NSGP-NSS allows for a consortium of organizations to apply for up to $1 million.

That might sound enticing, but the submission is difficult, the consortium must face a common threat and the “consortium leader” is responsible for all of the administrative details. Unless the consortium leader has an established capital projects and finance operation that already services the consortium members, CSI believes that three individual organizations applying for $200,000 is less onerous. Additional information.

Important information can be found in the RFA (click on the button below). Click on the button below for talking points from Rob Goldberg, (). Email your questions to: csi_questions@csiny.

org . NY organizations considering applying for NSGP-NSS grants should check that they are prequalified, and that their prequalification status will not expire before the grant deadline. Check here to learn how to check when your prequalification status expires .

Applications still need a “current” assessment. CSI will update its assessments older than three years. Click here to request an assessment or update .

CSI-NY NSGP-NSS tips : presentation , video tutorial NSGP-NSS Request for Applications (RFA) NSGP-NSS Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) NSGP-NSS Investment Justification (IJ) Template * NSGP-NSS Consortium Workbook NSGP-NSS E-Grants Tutorial NSGP-NSS Application Checklist NSGP-NSS Authorized Equipment List (AEL) *Due to compatibility issues with FEMA’s Investment Justification (IJ) template, the following options for accessing the document may be used: Important: If accessing from the web, the IJ must be downloaded and saved as a PDF before you start working on it.

If using Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge web browsers, after you click to open the document, a “Please wait…” message will appear. Click the “Download” or “Save as” icon (upper right corner of the screen) and save the file to your desktop. If using the Firefox web browser, the IJ will be viewable when you open it, however, you must download and save it as a PDF before you start working on it, otherwise errors may occur .

Navigate to your desktop where the file has been saved and open the document from here. If the file does not open normally, right-click the file on your desktop and select “Open with”, then select Adobe (acrobat, reader, etc.), then the file should open. Please keep the file saved on your desktop/local hard drive and do not save to any cloud-based storage, as future accessibility issues may occur.

The IJ will also need to be uploaded/submitted with your application in this fillable-PDF format with all fillable fields and drop-downs enabled. If you continue to experience difficulty downloading the IJ, please e-mail Grant. Info@dhses.

ny. gov and they can further assist you. NY 2023-2024 Securing Communities Against Hate Crimes (SCAHC) 2024 allocation.

$60 million, covering 125-300 grants. Deadline. The application deadline for up to in funding was May 17, 2024.

Notifications. According to the Request for Applications, notifications of awards will be sent “July 2024. ” The NY Division of Criminal Justice services anticipates that there will be approximately 300 grants awarded.

Next round. Another round of SCAHC funding is likely in Spring 2025, after the NY State budget is passed. U.S. Nonprofit Security Grants Program (NSGP) 2024 allocation .

The original FY 2024 NSGP NOFO made available $274,500,000 , half allocated to designated urban areas and the other half divided among the states and territories. In 2023, that formula yielded 212 grants to nonprofits in New York City, Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester received grants and 30 in the rest of New York. Supplemental allocation.

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer inserted supplemental funding for the FY 2024 NSGP into the National Security Supplemental ( Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 ), split equally between NSGP-UA and NSGP-S. Half of the Supplemental was added to the initial allocation, bringing the 2024 total to $434,500,000. Deadline.

The NY deadline for the 2024 NSGP was May 21, 2024 and NY DHSES received a record number of applications (up 13% over 2023). Fortunately, the additional funding will yield more grantees. Those who submitted NSGP application packages in May do not need to do anything else.

Bonus round . Rob Goldberg reports that later this summer FEMA is expected to issue an additional Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) , allocating the second $240 million tranche of supplemental emergency funding, with similar requirements and criteria as the regular annual program. Simply put, there will be a Fall 2024 round of NSGP applications.

NSGP 2025. Congress is already working on the NSGP allocation for next year. HT to Sen.

Kirsten Gillibrand for circulating a letter in the Senate, calling for $400 million. The House proposes a $335 million for the program. Plan on a Spring 2025 application period.

What are the differences between the federal and NY State security programs? Click on the image to learn more. June 7, 2024 | A record number of application packages, 759, were submitted in 2024.

Results should be available in the late summer, early fall. It’s not too early to start planning for the Spring, 2025 round of funding. Get prequalified and make sure that your assessment is up-to-date.

April 22, 2024 | Two grants are available to eligible, at-risk, New York nonprofits in Spring, 2024: the NY Securing Communities Against Hate Crimes and the federal Nonprofit Security Grant Program. For a comparison of the two programs and tips to get started, watch a tutorial here or click on the graphic to the right to download a presentation . Prequalify in NY .

NY nonprofits must “prequalify” before submitting for any grants administered by DHSES or DCJS. Find NYS tutorials along with CSI tips, with a special section focusing on how religious corporations (houses of worship and many schools) should reply. NY DHSES Nonprofit Security Grants (NSGP) webpage.

NY DCJS Securing Communities Against Hate Crimes grants (SCAHC). See additional CSI guidance below. Click on the graphic for CSI’s latest guidance for the NYS Hate Crimes grants.

The 2023-2024 Hate Crimes grants Request for Applications was released in January. Click on this link for full details. Eligible nonprofits can qualify for up to $200,000 in funding for security upgrades.

Applications are due May 17th. RFA Questions and Answers Check this page often for additional information on the grants. Is your organization eligible?

To be eligible, applicants must meet all of the following requirements: Applicants must have received a Recognition of Exempt Status Determination letter from the IRS pursuant to 26 USC §501(c)(3). Alternatively, qualified organizations (including houses of worship) may self-certify by providing a letter affirming that the organization qualifies as a §501(c)(3) organization and is exempt from tax pursuant to 26 USC §501(a). The