Assistance program
U.S. Refugee Admissions Program
$2.1 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, State, Department of
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements
- CFDA number
- 19.510
- What it does
- Initial reception and placement program for refugees approved for admission in the United States. Program objectives include: (1) arranging for refugees' placement by ensuring that approved refugees are sponsored and offered appropriate assistance upon arrival in the United States; (2) providing refugees with basic necessities and core services during their initial resettlement period in the United States; and (3) promoting refugee self-sufficiency through employment as soon as possible after arrival in the United States in coordination with other refugee service and assistance programs.
- Who benefits
- Refugees approved under the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program will benefit.
- Who applies
- private non-profit organizations
- Authorized by
- The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), as amended and The Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962, as amended (MRAA)
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