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F25AS00223 FY 2025 Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue and Response Grant Program

Federal funding opportunity F25AS00223 from Fish and Wildlife Service (Department of the Interior).

Posted
January 13, 2025
Closed
March 14, 2025
Award ceiling
$150,000
Program funding
$1,121,364
Cost sharing
Yes
Instrument
Cooperative Agreement, Grant
Assistance listing
15.683
Category
Natural Resources
Archives
October 1, 2025

Program funding history

Awards made under Assistance Listing 15.683 across FY2024–FY2026, from public federal spending records.

FY2024 obligated
$2.4M
FY2025 obligated
$300,681
FY2026 (to date) obligated
−$38,755
Awards in window
43

A negative year is a net de-obligation: downward adjustments to earlier awards exceeded new obligations in that year.

Top recipients: Kawerak, Inc., Bishop Museum of Science and Nature Inc., The Marine Mammal Center, Georgia Aquarium, Inc., Red Caribena de Varamientos (caribbean Stranding Network) Inc.

Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed September 2026 · Program page: awards, recipients and the opportunities under this listing →

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Synopsis

The John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue and Response Grant Program (Prescott Grant Program) provides financial assistance to eligible marine mammal stranding participants and stranding network collaborators to provide (A) the recovery, care, or treatment of sick, injured, or entangled marine mammals; (B) responses to marine mammal stranding events that require emergency assistance; (C) the collection of data and samples from living or dead stranded marine mammals for scientific research or assessments regarding marine mammal health; (D) facility operating costs that are directly related to activities described in (A), (B), or (C); and (E) development of stranding network capacity, including training for emergency response, where facilities do not exist or are sparse. Successful applications will be those aimed at helping support these actions. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) Prescott Grant Program will provide support for response to the stranding of wild populations of species under the Department of the Interior’s management authority per section 3(12) of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA). Under this Funding Opportunity, the FWS will select projects for funding based on how well and to what extent they support the species-specific priority activities, which are listed below under Species-Specific Funding Priorities. For the purposes of this program, priority is to be given to applications focusing on marine mammal strandings.

Who can apply

Eligible Prescott Grant Program applicants must be a U.S. “eligible marine mammal stranding participant” that is not an employee of the Department of the Interior or Department of Commerce. The term “eligible marine mammal stranding participant” means a person who is authorized under MMPA section 104(c) for response to injured or distressed marine mammals or for scientific research regarding marine mammal health, or under MMPA section 112(c) to take marine mammals as described in MMPA section 109(h) in response to a stranding. To be eligible for Prescott Grants under this Funding Opportunity, such authorizations must have been issued by the FWS. Eligible entities also include Federal, state, or local government employees operating in the course of their official duties as indicated under MMPA section 109(h). Applicants may reach out to the FWS for technical assistance to clarify and/or document applicability of the exemption under MMPA section 109(h). For marine mammals that are listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), eligibility includes authorization under ESA section 10(a)(1)(A) (except for polar bears as long as authorization has been provided under the MMPA), or exemptions to take prohibitions under 50 CFR 17.21 or 50 CFR 17.31. Applicants may be eligible without the MMPA or ESA authorizations detailed above depending on the nature of the project (see 1. f. below).Specifically, applicants must satisfy either #1 or #2 below1. A participant in a marine mammal stranding network (which is not an entity of a state, local, or eligible federal government employee) and in good standing. To be in good standing means: a. The applicant has authorization issued by the FWS under MMPA section 104(c) for response to injured or distressed marine mammals or for scientific research regarding marine mammal health, or under MMPA section 112(c) to take marine mammals as described in MMPA section 109(h) in response to stranded marine mammals (live or dead animal response).…

The official record

Grants.gov published the official terms and dates of this opportunity; this page keeps them as they were listed.

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Agency contact: Fish and Wildlife Service · [email protected] · 22041-3803

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