Opportunity Information: Apply for F20AS00048
The grant opportunity under CFDA 15.683 is the John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Grant Program, administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. It is a discretionary grant designed to strengthen the capacity of qualified marine mammal stranding network participants to respond when certain marine mammals are found sick, injured, distressed, or dead. The program is meant to cover the full arc of stranding response work, including on-the-ground retrieval, veterinary and husbandry care, treatment, rehabilitation, and release when release is appropriate, along with scientific research that is directly related to those stranding and rehabilitation efforts. In practice, the funding is aimed at helping responders and facilities do the hands-on, time-sensitive work required to save animals, improve welfare outcomes, and better understand the causes and patterns behind strandings.
A key feature of this opportunity is that it is limited to wild populations of marine mammal species that fall under the Department of the Interior's management authority as described in section 3(12) of the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Within that scope, project selection is driven by how well proposed activities align with species-specific priority needs identified by the Service. The announcement also highlights a statutory preference: as required by the Prescott Grant Program, priority is given to facilities that can demonstrate an established track record in rescuing or rehabilitating sick and stranded manatees, sea otters, walruses, and polar bears within U.S. waters. That preference matters because it signals that proven operational capability and documented experience with these focal species can strengthen an application, particularly when the work involves specialized facilities, trained personnel, and established protocols for safe handling and care.
From the funding details provided, the opportunity number is F20AS00048, and the funding instrument is a grant under the environment activity category. The award ceiling listed is $100,000 per award, with an anticipated total of about 20 awards. Eligibility is described as unrestricted, meaning the competition is broadly open to applicants of any entity type, although applicants still need to meet the program's functional requirement of being eligible marine mammal stranding participants and should pay attention to any additional eligibility clarifications included in the full notice. The posting date was January 22, 2020, and the original application deadline was March 22, 2020, which frames this as a specific funding cycle rather than a permanently open program.
Overall, this grant is best understood as targeted operational support for organizations that respond to strandings of DOI-managed marine mammals, combined with limited, mission-relevant research support. Competitive proposals are those that clearly connect requested funds to concrete improvements in stranding response outcomes (for example, increased rescue readiness, enhanced clinical care capacity, improved rehabilitation infrastructure, better post-release monitoring, or research that directly informs response and rehabilitation practices), and that demonstrate credible experience and coordination capacity for working with the priority species emphasized in the notice.Apply for F20AS00048
- The Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service in the environment sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "15.683" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.683.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jan 22, 2020.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Mar 22, 2020. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $100,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 20 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.
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