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FY2025 NAGPRA Repatriation Grants

Agency: National Park Service

Assistance Listings: 15.922 -- Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

Last Updated: January 13, 2025

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to make grants to museums, Indian Tribes, and Native Hawaiian organizations for the purposes of assisting in consultation, documentation, and repatriation of Native American human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony (25 U.S.C. 3008). NAGPRA Repatriation grants assist museums, Indian Tribes, and NHOs to defray costs associated with the packaging, transportation, contamination removal, reburial, and/or storage of NAGPRA human remains or cultural items. Project activities may include, but are not limited to:Travel,Transportation,Testing or decontamination,Building containers for transport,Ceremonial materials, orStaff time.See Program Overview for more details on project activities.

Eligibility

Eligible applicants

Government

  • City or township governments
  • Federally recognized Native American tribal governments
  • Special district governments
  • State governments
  • County governments

Miscellaneous

  • Other

Education

  • Private institutions of higher education
  • Public and state institutions of higher education

Nonprofit

  • Nonprofits non-higher education with 501(c)(3)

Additional information

The following entities are eligible to apply for a NAGPRA Repatriation Grant:An Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian OrganizationIndian Tribe is defined at 43 CFR 10.2. The Bureau of Indian Affairs’ list of Federally recognized tribes is available at www.bia.gov. Native Hawaiian organization (NHO) is defined at 43 CFR 10.2.A Museum within the United States.Museum and United States are defined at 43 CFR 10.2.A museum is eligible to apply for a grant only if it has complied with the requirements of NAGPRA (25 U.S.C. 3001-3013) and the implementing regulations (43 CFR part 10) at the time it applies for the grant. Federal agencies and the Smithsonian Institution may not apply for grants.Any applicant who previously received a NAGPRA grant but did not meet the conditions of the grant agreement, including reports or statement of work, may be penalized in the review process.Excluded Parties: NPS conducts a review of the SAM.gov Exclusions database for all applicant entities and their key project personnel prior to award. The NPS cannot award funds to entities or their key project personnel identified in the SAM.gov Exclusions database as ineligible, prohibited/restricted, or otherwise excluded from receiving Federal contracts, certain subcontracts, and certain Federal assistance and benefits, as their ineligibility condition applies to this Federal program.

Grantor contact information

Description

Jim Modrick nagpra_grants@nps.gov

Email

Email preferred

nagpra_grants@nps.gov

Documents

File nameDescriptionLast updated
P25AS00474_NAGPRA_Repatriation_rev3_25-0325.pdf
P25AS00474_NAGPRA Repatriation rev3_25-0325
Mar 28, 2025 08:42 PM UTC
P25AS00474_NAGPRA_Repatriation_rev3_25-0325.pdf
P25AS00474_NAGPRA Repatriation rev3_25-0325.pdf
Mar 28, 2025 08:42 PM UTC

Link to additional information

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Closing: May 8, 2026

Complete applications must be submitted to the National Park Service by Friday, May 8, 2026, 11:59PM PT. Applicants are encouraged...

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Award

$3,407,000

Program Funding

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Expected awards

$1,000

Award Floor

$25,000

Award Ceiling

Funding opportunity number:

P25AS00474

Cost sharing or matching requirement:

No

Funding instrument type:

Grant

Opportunity Category:

Discretionary

Opportunity Category Explanation:

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Category of Funding Activity:

Other

Category Explanation:

NAGPRA Repatriation

History

Version:

2

Posted date:

January 3, 2025

Archive date:

September 30, 2026

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