Assistance program
Civil Air Patrol Program
$556.3 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Dept of the Air Force, Dept of Defense
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements
- CFDA number
- 12.840
- What it does
- The purposes of the Civil Air Patrol are: to encourage and aid citizens of the United States in contributing their efforts, services, and resources in developing aviation and in maintaining air supremacy; to encourage and develop by example the voluntary contribution of private citizens to the public welfare; to provide aviation education and training especially to its senior and cadet members; to encourage and foster civil aviation in local communities; to provide an organization of private citizens with adequate facilities to assist in meeting local and national emergencies; and to assist the Department of the Air Force in fulfilling its noncombat programs and missions. See CAP site, https://www.gocivilairpatrol.com/ for more information.
- Who benefits
- Beneficiary identified in statute
- Who applies
- Any awards under this program will be made on a noncompetitive basis to the Civil Air Patrol, a nonprofit corporation that is federally chartered under 10 U.S.C. 9491-9498.
- Authorized by
- NDAA FY2001, Public Law 106-398, Title X, Section 1090
- Program site
- https://www.gocivilairpatrol.com ↗
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