FY2025 NAGPRA Repatriation Grants
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- P25AS00474
- Agency
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National Park Service
Department of the Interior
- Applications due
- Award size
- $1,000 to $25,000
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Grant
- Category
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- Other
- Eligible applicants
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- Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)
- City/Township Governments
- 501(c)(3) Nonprofits
- Higher Education Inst. (Public)
- Special District Governments
- Higher Education Inst. (Private)
- State Governments
- County Governments
- Points of contact
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- Jim Modrick nagpra_grants@nps.gov
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The National Park Service, Department of the Interior, is offering the FY2025 NAGPRA Repatriation Grants to assist museums, Indian Tribes, and Native Hawaiian organizations with the physical transfer of Native American human remains and cultural items. Eligible activities include travel, transportation, testing/decontamination, building transport containers, acquiring ceremonial materials, and staff time. Applications will be evaluated based on four equally weighted criteria: activities (25%), partnerships (25%), implementation/administration (25%), and impact/evaluation (25%). The deadline for submissions is May 8, 2026, at 11:59 PM PT, though the opportunity may close earlier if funds are exhausted.
The total program funding is approximately $3,407,000, with an expected 15 awards ranging from $1,000 to $25,000 each. The project period is anticipated to run from October 1, 2025, through August 31, 2026. Eligible applicants include state/local governments, federally recognized tribal governments, public/private higher education institutions, and qualifying 501(c)(3) nonprofits. No cost sharing is required.
Synopsis
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to make grants to museums, Indian Tribes, and Native Hawaiian organizations for the purposes of assisting in consultation, documentation, and repatriation of Native American human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony (25 U.S.C. 3008). NAGPRA Repatriation grants assist museums, Indian Tribes, and NHOs to defray costs associated with the packaging, transportation, contamination removal, reburial, and/or storage of NAGPRA human remains or cultural items. Project activities may include, but are not limited to:Travel,Transportation,Testing or decontamination,Building containers for transport,Ceremonial materials, orStaff time.See Program Overview for more details on project activities.
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