Assistance program
Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs
$598.1 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, State, Department of
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements;Cooperative Agreements (Discretionary Grants);Project Grants;Project Grants (for Specified Projects)
- CFDA number
- 19.600
- What it does
- Support the foreign assistance goals and objectives of the Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs (NEA), as delineated in the FY Bureau Strategic and Resource Plan. This program is for all grant awards for the entire fiscal year funded through State/NEA/AC.
- Who benefits
- U.S. or foreign non-profit organizations; for-profit organizations; private institutions of higher education, public or state institutions of higher education; public international organizations; and small businesses with functional and regional experience. Each solicitation outlines who is eligible and what types of experience are needed to apply for funding. Any award made using State/NEA funds requires the full complement of standard federal forms and budget documents, CVs of main program staff, as dictated by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Administration, and relevant 2 CFR. See www.grants.gov for specific announcement.
- Who applies
- U.S. or foreign non-profit organizations; for-profit organizations; private institutions of higher education, public or state institutions of higher education; public international organizations; and small businesses with functional and regional experience. Each solicitation outlines who is eligible and what types of experience are needed to apply for funding.
- Authorized by
- Section 634 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, Executive Order Department of State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2010, Public Law 110-161, U.S.C 7015
- Program site
- http://www.state.gov/p/nea ↗
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
$353.1M
59%
Other
$245.0M
41%
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