Every doorway is a decision. We help you make the right ones.
Every in-person assessment is run by a Marine Security Guard veteran with overseas embassy security experience. We work on houses of worship, nonprofit facilities, commercial property and private residences, and the standard does not move between them.
Two counties, on purpose. Every assessment runs on repeat visits on foot, so the service area is what we can cover properly. Select a county.
FUNDING FOR NONPROFITS
Two programs fund security upgrades for nonprofits and houses of worship. Neither will look at you without an assessment.
UP TO $250,000 PER SITE
Roughly one applicant in five got money. That is not a reason to skip applying, it is a reason to not hand in a thin application. The assessment is the gate: FEMA requires a site-specific one for every site you name, and says failure to provide it may result in the application being rejected. Everything you ask to be funded then has to trace back to a finding inside it, so a shallow assessment quietly caps your own request before a reviewer ever scores it.
That money goes into your building, not to us. It pays for the doors, cameras, fencing, lighting and other hardening the assessment identifies. What we produce is the document that gets you as far as the application, written around the categories the Cal OES worksheet asks about.
There is more detail on how both programs treat the assessment on the grant assessment page. We are not a grant writing firm, and we will say so if that is what you need. If your deadline is inside the next 90 days, say so when you write, and we will tell you honestly whether we can finish in time.
Open to nonprofits, houses of worship included; commercial and residential property is not eligible. Award caps come from the FY2026 NSGP notice of funding opportunity and the 2025–26 CSNSGP RFP. The application and award counts are Cal OES figures for the $76 million CSNSGP round. All of it changes by cycle, so confirm the current numbers when you apply. A better assessment does not entitle anyone to an award, and we do not guarantee that any application will be funded.
THE ASSESSMENT
What we walk, what we write down, and who gets to see it.
SIX CATEGORIES · WRITTEN REPORT IN TWO WEEKS
We assess buildings the way we assessed embassies.
Most security assessments are equipment inventories. Someone counts your cameras, checks your locks, and recommends more of both. We look for where someone gets in, where nobody is watching, and where five minutes of planning saves you a much worse day.
We do that across multiple visits at different times of day, including whenever the property is busiest. One afternoon on site will not show you the difference.
Perimeter & Fencing
Line of sight, lighting, gaps, and anything that makes the property line easier to cross than it should be.
Entrances & Egress
Access control, door hardware, and evacuation routes if people need to get out fast.
Vehicle Access
Standoff distance, entry points, and drop-off flow during your highest-traffic services and events.
Camera Coverage
What the cameras actually see, where the blind spots are, who is watching the feed, and how long footage is really kept.
Staffing & Post Orders
We review your staffing levels, training records, and post orders, and whether written protocol matches what actually happens on the ground.
Emergency Coordination
Your relationship with local law enforcement and whether staff know the plan if something happens.
Every finding is written the same way.
You do not get a list of concerns. Every finding follows the same structure, so a board member and a facilities manager can read the same page and come away with the same to-do list. The report comes back inside two weeks of the last visit.
Where on the property, specific enough that someone can walk to it without us.
What is there now, observed and photographed on site. What we saw, not what we assume is typical.
What the condition makes possible, and under what circumstances. Tied to how your building is actually used, including the hours when it is fullest.
The specific fix: product class, placement, and scope. Never "consider improving."
Low, moderate, or capital, so you can sequence the work against a real budget instead of treating every finding as equally urgent.
Whether the finding maps to a fundable category, and which one, so nobody has to guess when the application gets written.
Your report is a map of your weak points. We treat it that way.
- We deliver assessments encrypted, to recipients you name in writing. We do not send them as open email attachments.
- We do not publish client names, and photographs taken on your property are used in your report and nowhere else. Never as marketing, without your written permission.
- We keep our working copy only as long as the engagement requires, and destroy it on your request.
- We will sign your NDA, or provide ours.
Built on time actually spent doing this.
Every in-person assessment is conducted by a Marine Security Guard veteran with overseas embassy security experience. Every engagement, no exceptions, regardless of who is busy that week.
Nobody walks your property who has not done this work at a diplomatic post. You will not get a junior inspector with a clipboard.
Daniel Salicos
Marine Security Guard at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul from 2019 to 2021, where he worked within some of the U.S. government's most demanding physical security standards for high-threat facilities.
Brady Salicos
Holds a master's in criminal justice, where he studied how offenders pick targets and which security measures actually change that calculation. He handles the written side of every engagement: turning what we saw on site into findings a board can read and a facilities manager can put on a work order.
COMMON QUESTIONS
What people ask before they call.
SIX QUESTIONS
Do the nonprofit security grants actually require a vulnerability assessment?
Yes, both of them. The federal NSGP requires a site-specific vulnerability or risk assessment attached to the application, and requires that everything requested in the Investment Justification align directly to it. California's CSNSGP requires a completed Cal OES Vulnerability Assessment Worksheet.
That alignment rule is the part organizations underestimate: anything the assessment failed to identify is money you are not permitted to ask for.
How long does an assessment take?
Site visits run across several days, at different times of day, including at least one visit when the property is at its busiest. The written report is delivered within two weeks of the final site visit.
If you are working against a grant deadline inside the next 90 days, say so when you write and we will tell you honestly whether we can finish in time.
What does it cost?
It depends on the property. A single building is not a multi-structure campus, and the number of visits scales with how the place is actually used. The first conversation is free and carries no obligation, and that is where scope, timing and a price get settled.
Do you sell or install security equipment?
No. We hold no vendor relationships and take no commission or referral fee on anything named in a report. We recommend free and low-cost fixes before equipment as a matter of policy.
We are also not licensed by the California Bureau of Security and Investigative Services, so we do not provide guard services, patrol, alarm sales or installation, or investigative work. Those get referred out.
Do you write the grant application as well?
No. We produce the assessment the application has to be built on. Every finding already carries its condition, risk, recommendation and cost tier, so a grant writer copies out of the report instead of rebuilding it from a walkthrough they were not on.
Where do you work?
Los Angeles and Orange counties. Every assessment is built on multiple on-site visits, so the service area is the area we can properly cover on foot and repeatedly.
Let's look at your property.
First conversation is free. We only take a few assessments at a time so nobody gets rushed through a walkthrough. Tell us about the property and we will come back with scope, timing and a price.
Threshold provides security assessments and written recommendations only. We are not a licensed private patrol operator, alarm company, or private investigator, and we do not provide guard services, patrol, alarm sales or installation, or investigative work. Those requests are referred out.