City Of Warwick

City of Warwick, Rhode Island, acting through its City Clerk division, is a U.S. local government entity that receives federal grants as the prime recipient for emergency management, watershed restoration, and community development initiatives. The City operates as a child entity under the parent City of Warwick municipal government and does not hold federal contracts or contract vehicles; its federal footprint consists entirely of grant awards and grant sub-awards.

The City's grant work centers on three primary program areas. Fire and emergency response capabilities dominate the award count: the City received a $12.6 million Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grant (CFDA 97.083) from FEMA on March 14, 2023, running through March 13, 2026, funding staffing and deployment services through the municipal fire department; a $1.1 million Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) on July 15, 2024, supporting equipment, protective gear, training, and facility improvements through July 14, 2026; an $989,332 AFG award on September 1, 2021, for firefighting equipment and protective gear; and earlier AFG grants in 2022 and 2021. Watershed protection work includes a $748,768 Cooperative Agreement from the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) under the Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) Program (CFDA 10.923), awarded September 30, 2025, for implementation of recovery measures and debris removal on the Gauvin Drive Project 5015 in Kent County, Rhode Island, with completion targeted by December 31, 2026. Community development and economic initiatives are supported through two project grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (CFDA program designation noted as Economic Development Initiative, Community Project Funding, and Miscellaneous Grants) awarded February 17, 2023, and December 8, 2022, running through August 31, 2031 and August 31, 2030 respectively.

FEMA accounts for the majority of the City's recent grant activity: eight awards from Federal Emergency Management Agency and seven from FEMA HQ Financial Assistance Awards represent the bulk of recent volume across the top five customer agencies (69% of awards). The Environmental Protection Agency Region 1, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Department of Agriculture NRCS complete the active funding agency set. The City also acts as a sub-recipient on seven grant sub-awards, receiving pass-through funding from the Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank (Oakland Beach Force Main Rehabilitation construction, awarded December 1, 2025), the Rhode Island DOT (Rocky Point State Park access and parking improvements, May 29, 2025), the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (river herring habitat restoration and Phragmites removal, July 19, 2022), and the Rhode Island Executive Department (after-school educational programming, August 29, 2023), as well as hazardous materials and technical rescue team equipment through federal Hazmat and Urban Search and Rescue grant pass-throughs dated October 1, 2024, and September 1, 2024. Combined potential value across all 29 prime and sub awards totals $36.2 million, with only one award facing ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months.