Assistance program
HAVA Election Security Grants
$1.4 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Election Assistance Commission, Election Assistance Commission
- Assistance
- Formula Grants
- CFDA number
- 90.404
- What it does
- As authorized under Section 101 of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (Public 107-252) and provided in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 the funds are to be used to improve the administration of elections for Federal office, including to enhance election technology and make election security improvements.
- Who benefits
- States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, Northern Mariana and American Samoa.
- Who applies
- Assistance is to be used to improve the administration of elections for federal office, including enhancing election technology and making election security improvements.
- Authorized by
- Help America Vote Act, P.L. 107-252
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
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