Assistance program
Intermediary Relending Program
$22.2 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Rural Business Cooperative Service, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Direct Loans
- CFDA number
- 10.767
- What it does
- Establish revolving loan funds for the purpose of providing loans to ultimate recipients to promote community development, establish new businesses, establish and support microlending programs, and increase access to capital for start-ups and other small rural businesses and cooperatives in rural areas. Program performance is measured by the number of jobs created/saved and businesses assisted. The Agency tries to maintain a low default rate.
- Who benefits
- Ultimate recipients may include: For profit organizations, individuals, public and private nonprofit organizations.
- Who applies
- Eligible intermediaries may include: Private nonprofit organizations, State or local governments, and Federally recognized Indian tribes and cooperatives.
- Authorized by
- 7 U.S.C. § 1932
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.
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