County Of Harrison

County of Harrison, acting as Harrison County Board of Supervisors, is a Mississippi local government entity that receives federal grants for community service, emergency management, and public safety programs across multiple agencies, operating as a prime grant recipient (83% of awards) and as a sub-recipient on disaster recovery and equipment grants. As a U.S. government entity—specifically a county board structure headquartered in Gulfport, Mississippi—Harrison County does not hold SBA certifications and competes in full-and-open federal grant funding rather than through set-asides.

Harrison County's grant footprint spans social services, juvenile justice, disaster recovery, and conservation work. The Corporation for National and Community Service funds the AmeriCorps Seniors Senior Companion Program (CFDA 94.016), which the county operates as a prime recipient; the most recent award, effective July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2029, provides $269,312 to engage volunteers aged 55 and older in supportive services to vulnerable adults in Harrison County. The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention awarded the Harrison County Youth Court a $730,000 Treatment Court Discretionary Grant (CFDA 16.585, October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2028) to expand trauma-informed substance use disorder treatment services for youth in the juvenile justice system. The Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded Harrison County a $300,000 Port Security Grant (CFDA 97.056) in September 2022 to strengthen security infrastructure at Gulfport's port. Earlier AmeriCorps Seniors Senior Companion Program grants from the Office of Grants Management (awarded April 1, 2023, covering 2023–26 program years) funded volunteer engagement with statutory match requirements of 10–30% and budgetary match requirements ranging from 16.56% to 57.9%.

Customer concentration reflects environmental conservation and social-service dominance. The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service leads with ten awards; the Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management (AmeriCorps) accounts for seven awards; the Department of the Interior Bureau of Ocean Energy Management holds six awards; and the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance and FEMA Headquarters Financial Assistance Awards each carry five awards—together these five agencies represent 61% of recent awards. Activity has been modest and episodic: one to five awards per year over the past five years, with three awards in 2025 and one in 2026. Nine sub-awards, primarily for equipment and Operation Stonegarden border security funding, have flowed through Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (hazard mitigation disaster grants, 2022–2024) and other state intermediaries. Harrison County Library System, a subsidiary local government entity, appears in the corporate structure but does not separately hold named federal awards in the source data.

The combined potential value across all 54 awards totals $109,000, though obligated dollars across all awards reach $27.8 million—a ratio indicating that older, fully-executed disaster and equipment grants carry substantially larger realized value than recent smaller program awards. This disparity reflects the shift from large-dollar FEMA disaster assistance (now largely obligated) to smaller ongoing AmeriCorps and conservation program grants.