Assistance program
Rural eConnectivity Pilot Program
$1.9 Billion committed in FY2020–FY2026
- Agency
- Rural Utilities Service, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 10.752
- What it does
- The ReConnect Program provides loans, grants, and loan/grant combination awards to facilitate broadband deployment in rural areas. An essential goal of the ReConnect Program is to expand broadband service to rural areas without sufficient access to broadband, defined at the time of the funding notice (at a minimum: 25 megabits per second (Mbps) downstream and 3 Mbps upstream). In facilitating the expansion of broadband services and infrastructure, the program will fuel long-term rural economic development and opportunities in rural America.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- Applicants must submit unqualified, audited financial statements for the two previous years from the date the application is submitted. Applicants may have limited eligibility for the program depending on the characteristics of the proposed funded service area defined in the application.
- Authorized by
- Public Law 115-141
- 7 U.S.C. § 901 et seq.
- Program site
- https://www.usda.gov/reconnect ↗
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
$1.7B
90%
Loans
$187.1M
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