Assistance program
Veterans Cemetery Grants Program
$395.7 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- National Cemetery System, Veterans Affairs, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 64.203
- What it does
- To assist States and federally recognized tribal governments in the establishment, expansion, and improvement of veterans' cemeteries.
- Who benefits
- The cemetery must be used for the interment of veterans, their wives, husbands, surviving spouses, minor children, and unmarried adult children who were physically or mentally disabled and incapable of self-support: 38 CFR 38.620. The cemetery may be used for the interment of former members of reserve components of the Armed Forces, including members of the Army National Guard or Air National Guard, and their eligible dependents: 38 USC 2408 (i)(2).
- Who applies
- States (means each of the States, Territories, and possessions of the United States, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico); Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments.; Eligible County may apply. 38 USC 2408.
- Authorized by
- Public Law 105-368
- Public Law 109-461
- Program site
- https://www.cem.va.gov/grants/ ↗
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.
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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
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- 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