Assistance program
Policy Research and Evaluation Grants
$22.8 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Immed Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Health and Human Services, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 93.239
- What it does
- The goals of this listing are to improve the effectiveness of public policies that reduce poverty, inequality, and their consequences, promote economic mobility and equity, and further develop knowledge of the structural causes of poverty, inequality, and economic insecurity. To that end, the National Research Center on Poverty and Economic Mobility will: (1) develop a fellowship program that will place researchers on site at HHS to work with federal policy, research, and/or program offices, (2) administer a grant program that will make multiple awards to policy researchers to conduct research and analysis to answer high-priority questions related to equity, inclusion, diversity, and access in economic mobility and human services policy and programs, and (3) collaborate with HHS to disseminate actionable findings which are relevant to primarily federal policy and research communities through co-hosted events.
- Who benefits
- Federal, State and local governments will benefit. Note: Projects do not provide any direct assistance to individuals.
- Who applies
- Assistance may be provided to State and local governments, institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations and individuals. Occasionally, awards are made to for-profit organizations when deemed by the Assistant Secretary to be consistent with the legislative intent and purpose of the program.
- Authorized by
- Social Security Act, Section 1110, 42 U.S.C. 1310.
- Program site
- http://aspe.hhs.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.
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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