Assistance program
Traditionally Underserved Populations
$2.4 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Education, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 84.315
- What it does
- To make awards to minority entities and Indian tribes to carry out activities under the programs authorized under titles II, III, VI, and VII of the Rehabilitation Act, as amended; to make awards to minority entities and Indian tribes to conduct research, training, technical assistance, or a related activity, to improve services provided under the Rehabilitation Act, especially services provided to individuals from minority backgrounds; and to provide outreach and technical assistance to minority entities and Indian tribes to promote their participation in activities funded under the Rehabilitation Act, including assistance to enhance their capacity to carry out such activities.
- Who benefits
- Vocational Rehabilitation professionals who serve or are from minority groups and/or traditionally underserved populations, and individuals with disabilities served by the Vocational Rehabilitation program.
- Who applies
- A State or a public or private nonprofit agency or organization, such as an institution of higher education or an Indian tribe, historically black college or university, minority entity (an entity that is a historically Black college or university, a Hispanic serving institution of higher education, an American Indian tribal college or university, or another institution of higher education whose minority student enrollment is at least 50 percent).
- Authorized by
- Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended
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
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