Assistance program
Quality Samples Program
$8.1 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Foreign Agricultural Service, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Direct Payments for Specified Use
- CFDA number
- 10.605
- What it does
- The Quality Samples Program is designed to encourage the development and expansion of export markets for U.S. agricultural commodities by assisting U.S. entities in providing commodity samples to potential foreign importers to promote a better understanding and appreciation for the high quality of U.S. agricultural commodities.
- Who benefits
- The Quality Samples Program is intended to benefit a represented U.S. industry rather than a specific company or brand.
- Who applies
- To be approved, an applicant must be a U.S. private or government entity.
- Authorized by
- 15 U.S.C. § 714c(f)
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
$6.9M
85%
Grants
$1.2M
15%
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