Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds

Congress allocated $350 billion in COVID-19 relief funds 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. 

When Congress authorized the $350 billion in Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds, it allocated them 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.) 

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: Strengthening State and Local Economies in Partnership with Nonprofits: Principles, Recommendations, and Models for Investing Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds.

Funding Opportunities and Resources

• Alaska
  • ARPA Funding - Round 2, Anchorage Assembly (application closed May 20, 2022)
  • Alaska ARPA
• Arizona
  • Back to Work Small Business Hiring and Retention Program (application closed May 31, 2022)
• California
  • City of Escondido Nonprofit Relief Fund, San Diego County (deadline is August 11, 2022)
  • California Relief Grant Program
  • California Venues Grant Program
• Connecticut 
  • ARPA Nonprofit Toolkit: American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Funds to Municipalities Can Help Nonprofits Serve Their Communities, CT Community Alliance of Nonprofits
  • September Press Conference on Nonprofit Funding (23:52), CT Community Nonprofit Alliance, Sept. 23, 2021
  • Letter to Gian-Carl Casa - CT Community Nonprofit Alliance, Connecticut Office of Policy and Management, Sept. 23, 2021
  • Letter to Gov. Ned Lamont, CT Community Nonprofit Alliance, Sept. 17, 2021
• Delaware
  • Community Investment Recovery Fund
• Florida
  • ARPA Funding: The What, Where and How of Accessing It (53:22) and slides, Florida Nonprofit Alliance, Sep. 15, 2021
  • A Guide to the American Rescue Plan Act, Florida Policy Institute, Mar. 19, 2021
• Hawaii
  • Grants Technical Assistance Services
• Illinois
  • Cook County’s American Rescue Plan (Cook County)
• Iowa
  • Nonprofit Innovation Fund, Iowa Economic Development Authority (application goes live June 27, 2022)
• Kentucky
  • American Rescue Plan Act, Kentucky Nonprofit Network
• Maine
  • American Rescue Plan Act Funding in Maine, Maine Association of Nonprofits
• Maryland
  • A Model ARPA Grant Program, Maryland Nonprofits, Nov. 10, 2021
  • Baltimore Nonprofit Relief Fund (application closed Apr. 29, 2022)
  • Nonprofits and the American Rescue Plan Act (01:16:19), Maryland Nonprofits, Sept. 9, 2021
• Massachusetts
  • Testimony in support of using ARPA funding on the workforce crisis in the human services sector, The Campaign to Strengthen Human Services, Sept. 23, 2021
• Minnesota
  • American Rescue Plan Grants, Minnesota State Arts Board
  • Main Street Economic Revitalization Program (state and federal funding)
  • Minnesota Main Street COVID Relief Grants
• Montana
  • Collaborating with your County Commissioners on ARPA Funding, Montana Nonprofit Association, Feb. 22, 2022.
  • One Stop ARPA Resources
• Nebraska
  • The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), Nonprofit Association of the Midlands
  • Recommendations to Guide ARPA Funding Distributions by State and Local Governments, Nonprofit Association of the Midlands
  • Building Transformational Change Through ARPA, Nonprofit Association of the Midlands, July 26, 2021
  • Building Transformational Change Through ARPA, Nonprofit Association of the Midlands, Aug. 3, 2021
  • Building Transformational Change Through ARPA, Nonprofit Association of the Midlands, Aug. 11, 2021
• New Hampshire
  • Emergency Relief and Recovery – 2021 Programs
  • Pandemic Emergency Relief Fund (County of Cheshire)
• New Mexico
  • American Rescue Plan Act, New Mexico Thrives
  • NM Recovery Grant (application closed Dec. 31, 2022)
• North Carolina
  • American Rescue Plan Funds: What NC Nonprofits Need to Know (1:00:42) and handouts, North Carolina Center for Nonprofits, Sept. 7, 2021
  • City of Raleigh American Rescue Plan – Initial Phase (City of Raleigh), July 6, 2021
• North Dakota
  • ARPA Nonprofit Toolkit, North Dakota Association of Nonprofit Organizations
• Oklahoma
  • Nonprofit Sector Connection: Nonprofit News and ARPA Funding (1:00:36), Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits, Sept. 1, 2021
• Pennsylvania
  • American Rescue Plan Act Advocacy, Pennsylvania Association of Nonprofit Organizations
• South Carolina
  • Invest $100M in Work of SC Nonprofits Summary, Together SC
  • Together SC ARP Committee Testimony and Proposal, Together SC
• Vermont          
  • Nonprofit Resource Guide for Local ARPA Funds, CommonGood Vermont
  • Economic Recovery Bridge Program
  • Vermont COVID-19 Cultural Recovery Grants (National Endowment for the Humanities)
• Washington
  • How Nonprofits Can Access ARPA Funding, Washington Nonprofits
  • ARPA Topline Narrative, Washington Nonprofits
  • Partnership Stories, Washington Nonprofits
• West Virginia
  • Recommendations to Guide ARPA Funding Distribution by State and Local Governments, West Virginia Nonprofit Association
  • ARPA Topline Narrative, West Virginia Nonprofit Association

Additional Resources