Federal Funding

Federal Funding

USA.gov allows organizations to electronically find and apply for more than $400 billion in Federal grants. Grants.gov is THE single access point for over 1000 grant programs offered by all Federal grant-making agencies. The US Department of Health and Human Services is proud to be the managing partner for USA.gov, an initiative that is having an unparalleled impact on the grant community.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the managing partner for the Grants.gov Program, one of 24 Federal cross-agency E-Government initiatives focused on improving access to government services via the Internet. There are 26 Federal grant-making agencies which provide financial, governance and staffing support to USA.gov. Links to Federal grant-making agency websites are provided below.

Agency for International Development Department of State
Corporation for National & Community Service Department of Transportation
Department of Agriculture Department of the Treasury
Department of Commerce Department of Veterans Affairs
Department of Defense Environmental Protection Agency
Department of Education Institute for Museum and Library Services
Department of Energy National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Department of Health and Human Services National Archives and Records Administration
Department of Homeland Security National Endowment for the Arts
Department of Housing and Urban Development National Endowment for the Humanities
Department of the Interior National Science Foundation
Department of Justice Small Business Administration
Department of Labor Social Security Administration
There are over 1000 grant programs offered by the 26 Federal grant-making agencies. These programs fall into 21 categories defined by the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance. Select any of the grant categories listed below to learn more about the agencies that offer related grants. Please note that agencies may be listed under multiple grant categories.

  Agriculture Health
  Arts Housing
  Business and Commerce Humanities
  Community Development Information and Statistics
  Consumer Protection Law, Justice, and Legal Services
  Disaster Prevention and Relief Natural Resources
  Education Regional Development
  Employment, Labor, and Training Science and Technology
  Energy Social Services and Income Security
  Environmental Quality Transportation
  Food and Nutrition  

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
Online Catalog
The online Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance gives you access to a database of all Federal programs available to State and local governments (including the District of Columbia); federally -recognized Indian tribal governments; Territories (and possessions) of the United States; domestic public, quasi-public, and private profit and nonprofit organizations and institutions; specialized groups; and individuals. After you find the program you want, contact the office that administers the program and find out how to apply.

Types of Federal Assistance

Currently, programs in the Catalog are being classified by GSA into 15 types of assistance. (Cooperative Agreements as a type of assistance is used for programs administered under that mechanism. However, the definition does not appear in this section.) Benefits and services of the programs are provided through seven financial types of assistance and eight nonfinancial types of assistance. The following list defines the types of assistance which are available through the programs. Code letters below (A through O) which identify the type of assistance will follow program titles in the Agency Index, Applicant Eligibility Index, the Functional Index, Deadlines Index, and in the list of added programs

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