Disability Innovation Fund (DIF)

$671.7 Million committed in FY2021–FY2025

Agency: Education, Department of, Education, Department of
Assistance: Project Grants
CFDA number: 84.421
What it does: To support innovative activities aimed at improving the outcomes of individuals with disabilities as defined by section 7(20)(B) of the Rehabilitation Act.
Who benefits: Individuals with disabilities as defined in 7(20)(B) of the Rehabilitation Act will benefit.
Who applies: States and public, private and nonprofit agencies and organizations, including Indian tribes and institutions of higher education may apply.
Authorized by: Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024, Public Law 118-47
Program site: https://rsa.ed.gov/about/programs ↗

Committed by fiscal year

By dollars committed.

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

Fiscal year

Assistance program

$671.7 Million committed in FY2021–FY2025

Agency: Education, Department of, Education, Department of
Assistance: Project Grants
CFDA number: 84.421
What it does: To support innovative activities aimed at improving the outcomes of individuals with disabilities as defined by section 7(20)(B) of the Rehabilitation Act.
Who benefits: Individuals with disabilities as defined in 7(20)(B) of the Rehabilitation Act will benefit.
Who applies: States and public, private and nonprofit agencies and organizations, including Indian tribes and institutions of higher education may apply.
Authorized by: Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024, Public Law 118-47
Program site: https://rsa.ed.gov/about/programs ↗

By dollars committed.

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