Assistance program
Overseas Refugee Assistance Programs for Strategic Global Priorities
$509.3 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, State, Department of
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements
- CFDA number
- 19.522
- What it does
- Bureau support under this program includes select support to unique programs of international organizations and to a lesser extent, the multiregional activities of non-governmental organizations assisting refugees, stateless persons, conflict-affected, and vulnerable migrants. A particular emphasis of this support is to promote initiatives in areas that are cross-cutting Bureau priorities, such as: humanitarian protection; addressing specific needs based on gender, age, and disability; preventing and responding to gender-based violence (including protection from sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment); addressing statelessness; promoting localization; improving refugee health; and advancing the use of data and evidence in humanitarian assistance.
- Who benefits
- Refugees and victims of conflict requiring assistance.
- Who applies
- United Nations, international and non-governmental organizations. MRA designates primary UN or IO recipient organizations. NGO activities must be complementary to, and coordinated with, UN programs.
- Authorized by
- The Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962, as amended; (MRA) and 22 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.
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
$493.6M
97%
Other
$15.7M
3%
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