Assistance program
Foreign Investment Financing
$1.3 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Overseas Private Investment Corporation
- Assistance
- Direct Loans;Guaranteed/Insured Loans
- CFDA number
- 70.002
- What it does
- To provide financing for projects sponsored by private U.S. businesses in developing countries and emerging economies throughout the world, thereby assisting development goals and improving U.S. competitiveness, creating American jobs and increasing Unites States exports.
- Who benefits
- Project must have significant participation by a United States sponsor, generally in the form of at least 25 percent equity ownership. OPIC does not support projects that will result in the loss of U.S. jobs, that would contribute to the violation of internationally recognized worker rights or involve illicit payments. OPIC only supports projects that contribute to the economic and social development of the host country.
- Who applies
- Guaranteed investor must be citizen of the United States, a corporation, partnership, or other association created under the laws of the United States or any State or territory, and more than 50 percent beneficially owned by U.S. Citizens; a foreign corporation at least 95 percent owned by such entities; or a 100 percent United States-owned foreign entity. Direct loans are reserved for projects sponsored by or significantly involving United States small businesses or cooperatives. Applicants also must meet OPIC's credit underwriting criteria.
- Authorized by
- Foreign Assistance Act of 1969
- Program site
- http://www.opic.gov . ↗
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.
Direct payments
$9.4M
<1%
Grants
$38.0M
1%
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
Administering agencies
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