Coastal Resilience Grant Program
Program
At RiskDistributes $150M in resilience grants to coastal communities.
Agency
DEP
Enacted
2024-03-15
Deadline
2025-12-31
Budget
$150.0M
Target
60 communities awarded
Actual
34 communities awarded
Variance
-43.3%
Milestones & Timeline
RFP Published
2024-05-01Request for proposals published for coastal resilience grants.
Application Review Complete
2024-09-15All 142 applications reviewed and scored by panel.
First 20 Awards Issued
2025-01-15First cohort of 20 coastal communities received award letters.
Second Cohort Awards
2025-06-0114 additional communities received awards.
Third Cohort Awards
2025-10-15Remaining awards to reach target of 60 communities.
Final Compliance Report
2025-12-31All grant recipients submit compliance and progress reports.
What Changed?
How the F.L.O.R.I.D.A. Act Dashboard drove intervention on this program
- Dashboard flagged this initiative as falling behind schedule three months before the statutory deadline, enabling proactive intervention.
- An Executive Review was initiated, resulting in a corrective action plan with revised milestones and accountability checkpoints.
- Budget allocation was placed under conditional release, tying subsequent disbursements to milestone completion.
- Cross-agency data verification identified reporting discrepancies that were corrected, improving the accuracy of performance metrics.