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To: 2024-25 Competitive Prime Grantees 

From: Iyauta Green, Director, Office of Grant Administration

Cc: Sonali Nijhawan, Director, AmeriCorps State and National 

Date: December 29, 2023 

Re: Competitive carry forward funding for continuation grantees 

Carry forward is unexpended grant funds for continuation competitive grants to enhance 

program activities. The 2024 AmeriCorps State and National Application instructions 

provides guidance on how to request carry forward during the application process. This 

memo provides guidance and notes a change in that process. State Commissions and Direct 

Grantees may request carry forward, post-award, not during the application process. 

Applicants should not include the amount of carry forward in the FY 2024 application 

budget. 

Prior year unexpended competitive grant funds may be added to the FY 2024 budget, not to 

exceed the cost/MSY maximum amount specified in the Notice of Funding Opportunity. 

AmeriCorps will not offset or reduce the amount of FY 2024 funding by the unexpended 

funds amount. Funds may only be carried forward if the prime grant is a continuation grant in 

program year 2024-25; AmeriCorps cannot transfer funds to a new or recompete grant. The 

final approved budgets will include awarded 2024 appropriated funds and any requested 

unexpended funds carried forward via an amendment and included in the budget. 

Timeline

Following receipt of your 2024-25 Notice of Grant Award, if you want to request carry forward 

funding, please submit your email request to your Portfolio Manager no later than August 31, 

2024. Carry forward amendments will be processed within 60 days of submission of the 

request. 

No cost MSYs may be requested at any time during an active grant. 

State Commission Grants 

State commission grantees are permitted to carry forward funding at the program level, not 

at the prime level. Unexpended information will be collected at the prime level; however, the 

awarded funds must stay with the designated sub. If a subgrantee was awarded competitive 

funding in program year 2023-24 and is not competitively funded in 2024-25, unexpended 

funds will not revert to the prime grantee for use by other subgrantees and will be 

deobligated at the time of the prime grant closeout. 

Carry forward information will be collected, as applicable, for cost reimbursement and fixed 

amount grants. Unexpended funds cannot be transferred between grant types. 
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Carry Forward Requests 

Prior year unexpended funds will only be carried forward if requested. Submit the carry 

forward request via email to your Portfolio Manager. The subject line should read [Grant 

Number] Competitive Unexpended Funds. 

To help determine the level of unexpended funds to carry forward into the 2024-25 program 

year, please provide the following information: 

1 – Prime Grant Number 

2 – Unexpended Funds to be carried forward into the 2024-25 program year 

In addition to the information noted in #1 and #2 above, State Commissions should submit 

the following information on behalf of the applicable subgrantees: 

Subgrantee Name Subgrantee 

Grant Number 

Subgrantee’s Unexpended 

Funds to be Carried 

Forward into the 2024-25 

program year 

 $ 

 $ 

 $ 

 $ 

 $ 

 

Do not include cents. State commissions should submit separate emails for the cost 

reimbursement and fixed amount competitive continuation grants. 

Please only submit your request if you are requesting funds to be carried forward. 

No Cost Slots 

To support your carry forward request and to lower the cost/MSY, you may request no cost 

slots. To request no cost slots, submit a written request for the additional no cost slots and 

MSYs to your Portfolio Manager, including a breakdown by slot type. State Commission 

primes should include the subgrantee name. The written request must include a certification 

of the following: 

o The AmeriCorps members enrolled in these additional slots will only engage in 

activities aligned with the proposed member activities outlined in the approved grant, 

inclusive of approved grant amendments. 
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o The program has the resources and necessary staffing to manage, monitor, and 

support these additional members. 

o The understanding that a subgrantee/operating site member enrollment period may 

not exceed one year and proposed new members must start before the end of the 

member enrollment period. 

Amendments

Following submission of your competitive carry forward request, your Portfolio Manager will 

initiate an amendment to your grant and return the application to you to revise the budget, or 

applicable sub budget(s). You will revise the 2024-25 budget to include the amount of carry 

forward. State commissions will work with subgrantees to revise the applicable budgets to

include the amount of carry forward. If no cost slots/MSYs were requested, your Portfolio 

Manager will notify you of approval. You will make the necessary edits to the budget and 

performance measures to reflect the additional members. 

Prior to returning the amendment in eGrants, be sure the cost/MSY for each revised budget 

is within the maximum allowable for the 2024-25 program year. Per 45 CRF 2521.60, the 

required match for the program year must also be met (FY 2024 AmeriCorps State and 

National Grants | AmeriCorps) or an Alternative Match Schedule or match waiver request 

submitted through the waiver request form. 

As a reminder, any changes to the budget may require changes to the grantee share, Section 

III, and/or Source of Funds sections. 

Please contact your Portfolio Manager if you have any questions.