City Of Boston

City of Boston Mayor's Office of Emergency Management Division, operating as the Treasurer's Office, is a U.S. municipal government entity that acts as a federal grant recipient across a wide portfolio of housing, emergency management, education, environmental, and social service programs. The entity operates as a prime recipient on 334 awards (72% of recent activity) and as a sub-recipient on 128 awards (28%), serving over 50 distinct federal agencies with combined potential value of $743 thousand and obligated dollars of $691.5 million.

The entity's customer concentration is dominated by housing and community development work. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development leads by far with 167 awards covering Continuum of Care (CoC) homelessness programs, Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG), Home Investment Partnerships (HOME), Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA), and Fair Housing Assistance Program (FHAP) administration. The Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service funds 53 awards, primarily school nutrition and food assistance programs passed through Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education. The Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education accounts for 43 awards in school-based grants, Indian education formula grants, and special education funding. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Headquarters Financial Assistance Awards funds 29 awards focused on emergency preparedness, firefighter assistance, regional catastrophic preparedness, and port security. HUD's Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity rounds the top five with 18 awards. These five agencies account for 67% of recent award volume.

Recent representative prime grant work includes a $48.47 million Inflation Reduction Act project grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (Region 1) to replace 125 diesel school buses with zero-emission vehicles and install charging infrastructure for Boston Public Schools (awarded January 1, 2025, completion December 31, 2026); a $11.41 million USDA Forest Service Urban & Community Forestry Program grant under the Inflation Reduction Act for the "Healthy Places Boston" urban forest initiative (awarded July 30, 2024, completion May 14, 2029); a $4.94 million HUD Home Investment Partnerships formula grant for affordable housing development (awarded September 17, 2025, completion September 30, 2034); a $3.65 million HOPWA formula grant for housing assistance to persons with HIV/AIDS (awarded September 17, 2025, completion September 16, 2028); and a $1.51 million Emergency Solutions Grant for homelessness prevention and rapid re-housing (awarded September 17, 2025, completion September 16, 2027). In emergency management, the entity received a $2.3 million Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant from FEMA (awarded October 1, 2024) and a $24.2 million Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grant (awarded February 27, 2022, completion February 26, 2025).

Activity has accelerated sharply: four awards in 2022 grew to six in 2023, jumped to 100 in 2024, contracted to 38 in 2025, with four recorded in 2026 year-to-date. Twelve awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, signaling near-term recompete exposure. The entity's sub-recipient footprint routes federal funding through Massachusetts state agencies (primarily Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education for child nutrition and education grants, and Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection for watershed planning) and through named nonprofit partners including Justice for Housing Inc. (operating the Stabilization & Emergency Assistance Program under the HUD CoC award), Metro Housing Boston (tenant-based rental assistance under HOPWA), Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee and Action For Boston Community Development (ABCD) (tax assistance under IRS VITA grants), and Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation (energy efficiency and indoor air quality improvements under EPA cooperative agreements).

The City of Boston Fire Department is identified as a named subsidiary. Two prime contracts of minimal value were awarded by the U.S. Coast Guard for parking freeze application fees ($10,700 annually), reflecting the entity's municipal licensing relationship rather than operational federal contracting capability.