Assistance program
Tax Counseling for the Elderly
$97.8 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Internal Revenue Service, Treasury, Department of the
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 21.006
- What it does
- Authorize the Internal Revenue Service to enter into an agreement with private or public nonprofit agencies or organizations; establish a network of trained volunteers to provide free federal income tax information and return preparation assistance to elderly taxpayers.
- Who benefits
- Elderly taxpayers, age 60 or older.
- Who applies
- Tax Counseling for the Elderly applicants must be private or public nonprofit organizations with experience in coordinating volunteer programs. Federal, State, and local government agencies are not eligible to participate in this program. Applicants must be tax compliant and not be debarred or suspended.
- Authorized by
- Revenue Act of 1978
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