# Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) Grants

**Agency:** Homeland Security  
**Account:** Federal Assistance  
**Source document:** Federal Emergency Management Agency · p. 5  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/homeland-security/staffing-for-adequate-fire-and-emergency-response-safer-grants  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2025 | enacted | 324.0 |
| FY2026 | CR annualized | 324.0 |
| FY2027 | request | 324.0 |

The prior-year column is a CR annualized figure, not an enacted appropriation.


## Homeland Security discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $91.40B, FY2026 $88.60B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

The SAFER Grants were created to provide funding directly to fire departments and volunteer firefighter interest organizations to help them increase or maintain the number of trained, "front line" firefighters available


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Homeland Security › Federal Emergency Management Agency › Federal Assistance › Grants


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*