State and Local Funds | American Rescue Plan Funds

The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) provided one of the largest economic relief programs in U.S. history. The law included many updates to COVID relief programs affecting nonprofits.

Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (CSLFRF)

Most importantly to nonprofits, under the American Rescue Plan Act, Congress allocated $350 billion in in Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (CSLFRF) for state, local, Tribal, and territorial governments to use in providing “assistance to households, small businesses, and nonprofits, or to aid impacted industries” (emphasis added).  The federal government showed tremendous trust that governments closest to the people and their problems are best positioned to decide the best ways to spend their allocated resources to meet local needs.

CSLFRF funds are allocated separately to states, to counties, to metropolitan cities, and "non-entitlement areas" (local governments typically serving populations of less than 50,000, including cities, towns, townships, and villages). This chart adds those amounts together to show how much funding will flow into each state, and whether Treasury will split the total amount of state funding into two equal payments. The map below shows those totals. (The $20 billion allocated for Tribal governments will be calculated and distributed separately by Treasury.) 

ARPA Report Map
Federal allocations in billions of dollars 2021

Nonprofits (and governments too) have many questions about eligibility, types of programs – loans, grants, in-kind contributions– and processes for building and implementing effective programs. Those questions, and many more, are answered in the new Special Report from the National Council of Nonprofits.

State Funding Opportunities and Resources

Alaska

Colorado

Connecticut 

Florida

Idaho

Indiana

Kentucky

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Montana

Nebraska

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina

North Dakota

Pennsylvania

Vermont

Washington

West Virginia

Previous Opportunities

Final Rule Resources

National Trackers