Baton Rouge City Of Office Of The Treasurer

Baton Rouge City Of Office Of The Treasurer, doing business as Parish Of East Baton Rouge, is a U.S. local government entity that acts as a federal grant recipient across housing, emergency management, public safety, workforce development, and infrastructure programs. The entity does not hold federal contracts; it operates exclusively as a prime grant recipient (56% of recent awards) and sub-recipient on federal grants (44%), with no contracting footprint. As a municipal government, it carries no SBA certifications and competes in the grant space as a jurisdiction eligible for formula and project grants from HUD, FEMA, DOJ, DOT, and other federal agencies.

The recipient's capability portfolio centers on community development, homelessness prevention and housing assistance, emergency response and disaster recovery, public safety and gun-violence reduction, workforce development, and transportation infrastructure. Representative prime grant work includes a $1.5 million HUD Lead Hazard Reduction Program project grant (CFDA 14.900) awarded February 15, 2025, to identify and control lead-based paint hazards in pre-1960 rental and owner-occupied housing in low-income neighborhoods; a $2.53 million Federal Transit Administration formula grant (CFDA 20.507) awarded July 30, 2025, for the Plank-Nicholson Bus Rapid Transit project construction, including BRT bus stations, intersection improvements, and ADA accessibility upgrades; and a $2.254 million HUD Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS formula grant (CFDA 14.241) awarded February 4, 2026, for tenant-based and facility-based rental assistance and supportive services to low-income individuals with HIV/AIDS. The recipient also holds recurring HUD formula grants for the HOME Investment Partnerships Program (CFDA 14.239), Community Development Block Grants (CFDA 14.218), and Emergency Solutions Grant (CFDA 14.231), which fund affordable housing development, homebuyer assistance, rental assistance, and homelessness prevention activities.

Customer concentration is dominated by FEMA and HUD. The Federal Emergency Management Agency accounts for 77 awards and represents the largest share by count, anchored by disaster recovery and hazard mitigation grants tied to hurricane response and flood mitigation projects. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development accounts for 58 awards, representing the second-largest concentration and spanning HOME, HOPWA, ESG, and CDBG programs. The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance contributes 23 awards focused on gun-violence reduction, public safety partnerships, and law enforcement capabilities. The Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration and Federal Highway Administration round out the top five with 16 and 10 awards respectively, tied to transit and highway safety initiatives.

Sub-award activity reflects pass-through relationships with state agencies and federal disaster-recovery funding mechanisms. Homeland Security & Emergency Management serves as the prime grantee on multiple FEMA disaster-recovery and hazard-mitigation sub-awards to East Baton Rouge Parish, covering emergency protective measures, property acquisition and demolition, flood mitigation infrastructure (detention ponds, culvert improvements, backflow prevention), and critical infrastructure hardening (generator projects, safe rooms). Louisiana Works functions as the prime on Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) sub-awards for adult workforce development, dislocated worker services, and youth services. The East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office and Baton Rouge Police Department receive law enforcement equipment and training sub-awards.

Activity has grown substantially year over year—from 17 awards in 2022 to 36 in 2024—then stabilizing at 33 in 2025 and 17 through mid-2026. Sixteen awards face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, creating potential for recompete or renewal in the HUD housing and community-development space. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $967.8 million against a stated combined potential value of $4 thousand, reflecting the source data's treatment of grant-obligation reporting at variance with published ceiling values. The entity operates as a conduit for federal resources directed to East Baton Rouge Parish residents and local government operations, with no prime contracting presence and no competitive-procurement exposure characteristic of traditional federal contractors.