Assistance program
State Trade Expansion
$121.0 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Small Business Administration, Small Business Administration
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements;Project Grants (Discretionary)
- CFDA number
- 59.061
- What it does
- Grants made to state governments to increase the number of small businesses that are exporting and increase the value of exports for those small businesses that export.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- States, defined as the 50 states, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands.
- Authorized by
- Small Business Act, Section 22(l) (15 U.S.C. 649(l))
- Program site
- http://www.sba.gov/step ↗
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
$121.1M
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