Women's Business Ownership Assistance

$188.9 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026

Agency: Small Business Administration, Small Business Administration
Assistance: Project Grants
CFDA number: 59.043
What it does: To fund private, nonprofit organizations to assist, through training and counseling, small business concerns owned and controlled by women, and to remove, in so far as possible, the discriminatory barriers that are encountered by women in accessing capital and promoting their businesses.
Who benefits: Women entrepreneurs starting their own business or expanding their existing business.
Who applies: Private, nonprofit organizations having experience in effectively training and counseling business women. Public educational institutions and State and local governments are not eligible.
Authorized by: Small Business Act, Section 29 (15 U.S.C. 656)
Program site: http://www.sba.gov/women ↗

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
$189.0M
100%

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

Source

USAspending.gov ↗

Women's Business Ownership Assistance

$188.9 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026

Agency: Small Business Administration, Small Business Administration
Assistance: Project Grants
CFDA number: 59.043
What it does: To fund private, nonprofit organizations to assist, through training and counseling, small business concerns owned and controlled by women, and to remove, in so far as possible, the discriminatory barriers that are encountered by women in accessing capital and promoting their businesses.
Who benefits: Women entrepreneurs starting their own business or expanding their existing business.
Who applies: Private, nonprofit organizations having experience in effectively training and counseling business women. Public educational institutions and State and local governments are not eligible.
Authorized by: Small Business Act, Section 29 (15 U.S.C. 656)
Program site: http://www.sba.gov/women ↗