Assistance program
Fair Housing Organization Initiatives
$51.6 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, Housing and Urban Development, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 14.417
- What it does
- To assist organizations that are regional and local, community based and National programs, that develop, implement, carry out, or coordinate programs and/or activities to educate the public about their rights under, the Fair Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 3601-3619) or about State or local laws that provide substantially equivalent rights and remedies for alleged discriminatory housing practices.
- Who benefits
- Any person or group of persons aggrieved by discriminatory housing practices because of race, color, religion, sex disability familial status or national origin. Any person or group of persons, including landlords or real estate agents, to prevent discriminatory housing practices based on race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status or national origin.
- Who applies
- Qualified Fair Housing Enforcement Organizations, other Fair Housing Enforcement Organizations, other non-profit organizations representing groups of persons protected under Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, State and local agencies certified by the Secretary under Section 810(f) of the Fair Housing Act, or other public or private entities that are formulating or carrying out programs to prevent or eliminate discriminatory housing practices.
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