Assistance program
Community Facilities Loans and Grants
$2.2 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Rural Housing Service, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants;Direct Loans;Guaranteed/Insured Loans
- CFDA number
- 10.766
- What it does
- To provide affordable funding either through loans or grants to develop essential community facility projects in rural communities to nonprofits, public bodies, and federally recognized tribes. Ensure program is delivered efficiently, effectively and with integrity. Ensure all rural residents have equitable access to program funding with specific set asides for persistent poverty counties, to help rural communities build robust and sustainable economies.
- Who benefits
- Loans for essential community facilities are made to eligible entities who provide essential community services to the population living within the service area of the facility or being served by the facility. Beneficiaries include farmers, ranchers, rural residents, rural businesses, and other users of such public facilities in eligible applicant areas as set out above.
- Who applies
- City, county, and other public bodies; community-based non-profit corporations; and Federally-recognized Tribes. Eligible applicants must: (1) operate on a not-for-profit basis; (2) have or will have the legal authority necessary for constructing, operating, and maintaining the proposed facility or service and for obtaining, giving security for, and repaying the loan; and (3) are unable to finance the proposed project from its own resources or through commercial credit at reasonable rates and terms. Assistance is authorized for eligible applicants in rural areas of the States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palaw, and the Federated States of Micronesia.
- Authorized by
- 7 U.S.C. § 1926
- Program site
- http://www.rd.usda.gov ↗
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
77%
Loans
$495.8M
23%
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