Assistance program
Performance Partnership Grants
$4.1 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Protection Agency
- Assistance
- Formula Grants;Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 66.605
- What it does
- Fostering EPA’s partnership with the states and Tribes is critical to accelerating environmental outcomes. Performance Partnership Grants (PPGs) are the cornerstone of the National Environmental Performance Partnership System (NEPPS), which aims to strengthen partnerships and build a results-based management system. PPGs allow states and Tribes to combine eligible categorical State and Tribal Assistance Grants (STAG) into a single grant with a single budget. PPGs can reduce administrative transaction costs, provide flexibility to direct resources toward environmental priorities, and support cross-media approaches and initiatives. EPA's overarching goal is to optimize the leveraging power of PPGs to focus strategically on the joint priorities of EPA and recipients. The Agency supports the goals of NEPPS and Performance Partnership Grants (PPGs) which serve to: (1) strengthen partnerships between EPA and recipients through joint planning, priority setting, and efficient and effective management of resources; (2) provide states, Tribes, and interstate agencies with flexibility to direct resources where they are needed to address environmental and public health priorities; (3) link program activities more effectively with environmental and public health goals and environmental outcomes; (4) foster implementation of innovative approaches such as pollution prevention, ecosystem management, and community-based environmental protection strategies; and (5) provide savings by streamlining administrative requirements. For a current list of grant programs eligible for inclusion in a PPG, please visit: https://www.epa.gov/ocir/nepps-implementing-performance-partnerships.
- Who benefits
- States, U.S. territories, federally recognized Indian tribal governments, and interstate agencies.
- Who applies
- All states, interstate agencies, U.S. territories, the District of Columbia, and federally recognized Indian Tribes eligible to receive more than one of the 19 categorical grant programs are eligible to apply for PPGs. Any duly authorized state or Tribal entity that currently receives or is eligible to receive EPA categorical program grants may request a PPG for the funds it administers. This may include agencies other than environmental agencies (for example, agricultural and health agencies), where authorized by state or Tribal law.
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
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- Some recipients aren't itemized
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments