Assistance program
Build to Scale
$89.6 Million committed in FY2021–FY2026
- Agency
- Economic Development Administration, Commerce, Department of
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 11.024
- What it does
- Entrepreneurs, especially technology entrepreneurs, flourish in healthy ecosystems. Technology-based economic development (TBED) grows ecosystems in which entrepreneurs can build and scale technology-driven businesses, which in turn create high-skill and high-wage jobs, economic opportunity, and the industries of the future. EDA’s Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (OIE) awards grants through the Build to Scale (B2S) Program to foster technology-based ecosystems, to advance the growth of connected, innovation-centric economies that accelerate technology, and to enable commercialization to increase regional and global competitiveness.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- Entities that are eligible for funding include: • a State; • an Indian tribe; • a city or other political subdivision of a State; • an entity whose application is supported by a State or a political subdivision of a state and that is— o a nonprofit organization; o an institution of higher education; o a public-private partnership; o a science or research park; o a Federal laboratory; o a venture development organization; or o an economic development organization or similar entity that is focused primarily on improving science, technology, innovation, or entrepreneurship; or • a consortium of any of the aforementioned entities. EDA is not authorized to provide grants to individuals or other entity types that are not eligible under this NOFO, and such requests will not be considered for funding. If an organization is currently implementing an OIE award (i.e., under a prior-year Build to Scale or Regional Innovation Strategies program funding opportunity) and submitting an application to the same or successor challenge under this NOFO, EDA will not consider that application for award unless all activities under the existing award, including but not limited to final reporting requirements, are completed and submitted to EDA prior to October 1, 2023.
- Authorized by
- Public Law 116th Congress-Pub. L 116-92, sec. 1742, 133 Stat. 1837
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
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- Some recipients aren't itemized
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments