Assistance program
Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program
$200.7 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Foreign Agricultural Service, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Direct Payments for Specified Use
- CFDA number
- 10.600
- What it does
- FMD award recipients will implement various market development activities in foreign markets to create, expand, and maintain long–term export markets for U.S. agricultural products. These activities will benefit U.S. farmers, processors, and exporters by assisting them in maintaining or increasing market share in foreign markets by addressing long–term foreign market import constraints and by identifying new markets or new uses for U.S. agricultural products in foreign markets.
- Who benefits
- Preference is given to nonprofit U.S. trade organizations which are nationwide in membership and scope.
- Who applies
- This program is open to United States trade organizations that promote the export of 1 or more United States agricultural commodities and do not have a business interest in or receive remuneration from specific sales of agricultural commodities.
- Authorized by
- 7 U.S.C. § 5623(c)
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how this program's money is paid out.
Direct payments
$183.9M
92%
Grants
$16.8M
8%
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments