Assistance program
Partnership Agreements
$2.0 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Forest Service, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Direct Payments for Specified Use (Cooperative Agreements)
- CFDA number
- 10.699
- What it does
- To increase participation of non-federal cooperators in all authorized Forest Service programs and activities in a manner that is of mutual benefit and benefit interest to the partner and the Forest Service.
- Who benefits
- The Forest Service has partnership authorities to enter into agreements and cooperative arrangements with willing members of the public, which include but are not limited to, for profit; non-profits; institutions of higher education; federal, state, local, and Native American tribe governments; foreign governments and organizations.
- Who applies
- The Forest Service partners with non-profits; for-profit; institutions of higher education; federal, state, local, and Native American tribe governments; individuals; foreign governments and organizations.
- Authorized by
- 2014 Farm Bill, Agriculture Conservation Experienced Service (ACES) Program, Public Law 113-79, Section 8302
- Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986
- Cooperative Funds and Deposits Act of December 12, 1975
- Wyden Amendment
- Interior and Related Appropriations Act of 1992 (Challenge Cost-Share Authority)
- Public Land Corps Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2005
- 25 U.S.C. 3115(b). Tribal forest management demonstration project
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
$593.6K
<1%
Other
$2.0B
100%
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
Administering agencies
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