Assistance program
Congressionally Directed Assistance
$610.0 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Washington Headquarters Services (WHS), Dept of Defense
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements;Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 12.599
- What it does
- To implement Congressionally directed assistance for the purposes identified in the Department of Defense (“DoDâ€) annual appropriations act. The resulting assistance instruments support a variety of Congressional priorities. DoD awards the appropriate assistance instruments for the Congressionally identified purposes consistent with its authority, including applicable requirements for merit-based or competitive processes.
- Who benefits
- Beneficiary Eligibility (082): Eligible beneficiaries are determined in accordance with the applicable statutory authorization.
- Who applies
- Types of organizations that may apply vary with the statutory requirements and appropriate sources of supporting information. Examples of organizations that have received assistance include nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, memorial organizations, local governments and cultural organizations. Merit-based or competitive processes are followed when applicable.
- Authorized by
- Department of Defense Appropriations Act (annual)
- Services to the United States Government U.S.C. § 36 USC 150303
- Program site
- https://www.grants.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
$601.7M
99%
Other
$8.3M
1%
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