Assistance program
Health Center Program (Community Health Centers, Migrant Health Centers, Health Care for the Homeless, and Public Housing Primary Care)
$28.4 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Health Resources and Services Administration, Health and Human Services, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 93.224
- What it does
- To improve the health of the Nation's underserved communities by ensuring continued access to affordable, accessible, and high-quality primary health care services for communities and populations currently served by the Health Center Program. Individual health center grant mechanisms include: (1) Community Health Centers; (2) Migrant Health Centers; (3) Health Care for the Homeless; and/or (4) Public Housing Primary Care. Certain funding opportunities may also expand access to primary health care by supporting new access points (i.e., new health centers and sites), expand access to high quality primary care services at existing health centers, and expand primary health care services related to emerging public health issues, including public health emergencies.
- Who benefits
- Populations in medically underserved areas, medically underserved populations, and special populations such as migratory and seasonal agricultural workers, people experiencing homelessness, and public housing residents.
- Who applies
- Eligible applicants are domestic public or private, non-profit private entities, including faith-based and community-based organizations, tribes, and tribal organizations that have the capacity to effectively administer the award.
- Authorized by
- Section 330 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act (42 U.S.C. § 254b)
- Program site
- http://www.hrsa.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.
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