FY2025 NAGPRA Repatriation Grants
- Posted
- January 3, 2025
- Closed
- May 8, 2026
- Award ceiling
- $25,000
- Award floor
- $1,000
- Program funding
- $3,407,000
- Cost sharing
- No
- Instrument
- Grant
- Assistance listing
- 15.922
- Archives
- September 30, 2026
Program funding history
Awards made under Assistance Listing 15.922 across FY2025–FY2027, from public federal spending records.
- FY2025 obligated
- $3.4M
- FY2026 obligated
- −$27,960
- FY2027 (to date) obligated
- $0
- Awards in window
- 117
A negative year is a net de-obligation: downward adjustments to earlier awards exceeded new obligations in that year.
Top recipients: Caddo Nation of Oklahoma, Central Council Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, Stockbridge-munsee Community, University of Alabama, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed October 2026 · Program page: awards, recipients and the opportunities under this listing →
Synopsis
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.
Who can apply
- County governments
- Special district governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- State governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
- City or township governments
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.
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