Assistance program
Congressionally Directed Programs
$43.3 Million committed in FY2022–FY2026
- Agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 43.014
- What it does
- NASA Community Projects/NASA Special Projects are provided by Congress for specific projects or programs in such a manner that the allocation (a) circumvents a merit-based or competitive allocation process, (b) applies to a very limited number of individuals or entities or (c) otherwise curtails the ability of the Executive Branch to independently manage the agency budget.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- Community Projects/Special Projects are specified in the Explanatory Statement, by reference, and the intended recipient of a Community Project/Special Project is designated in the Explanatory Statement pursuant to the statute.
- Authorized by
- Public Law NASA Community Projects/NASA Special Projects-P.L. 118-42; Executive Order NASA Community Projects/NASA Special Projects (FY 24 Community Projects)
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