Assistance program
Market Access Program
$1.3 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Foreign Agricultural Service, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Formula Grants (Cooperative Agreements);Direct Payments for Specified Use
- CFDA number
- 10.601
- What it does
- MAP award recipients will implement various market development activities in foreign markets to develop, expand, and maintain foreign markets for U.S. agricultural products. These activities will benefit U.S. farmers, ranchers, food processors, and manufacturers through increased exports and expanded rural job opportunities.
- Who benefits
- CCC will enter into MAP agreements only where the eligible agricultural commodity is comprised of at least 50 percent U.S. origin content by weight, exclusive of added water.
- Who applies
- To be approved, applicants must be: (1) A nonprofit U.S. agricultural trade organization; (2) a nonprofit State regional trade group; (3) a U.S. agricultural cooperative; or (4) a State agency.
- Authorized by
- Agricultural Trade Act of 1978, as amended, Section 203. 7 USC 5623.
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
$1.1B
90%
Grants
$124.5M
10%
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