Assistance program
Good Neighbor Authority
$543.1 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Forest Service, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements
- CFDA number
- 10.691
- What it does
- Good Neighbor Authority allows the Forest Service to authorize states, counties, and federally recognized Indian tribes to conduct certain projects on federal lands in pursuit of specified land management goals (16 U.S.C. §2113a). The authority allows the Forest Service to collaborate with these entities to plan and execute cross-jurisdictional restoration work.
- Who benefits
- Program authorized for states containing or affected by National Forest System Land, including the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
- Who applies
- State includes state agencies that are part of a State university system. State universities are not eligible. State includes the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
- Authorized by
- Section 8206 of Public Law 113-79, the Agricultural Act of 2014 (Farm Bill) as amended.
- 16 U.S.C. § 8571
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.
Grants
$541.5M
100%
Other
$1.5M
<1%
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