Assistance program
Title IV-E Kinship Navigator Program
$91.8 Million committed in FY2019–FY2026
- Agency
- Administration for Children and Families, Health and Human Services, Department of
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 93.471
- What it does
- The title IV-E Kinship Navigator program helps states, Indian tribes, tribal organizations and tribal consortia (tribes) that also operate the title IV-E foster care and adoption assistance programs to operate kinship navigator programs. Kinship navigator programs assist kinship caregivers in learning about, finding, and using programs and services to meet the needs of the children they are raising and their own needs. They also promote effective partnerships among public and private agencies to ensure kinship caregiver families are served. Title IV-E kinship navigator programs must meet requirements in section 427(a)(1) of the Social Security Act (the Act) and must also be operated in accordance with promising, supported, or well-supported practice standards specified in section 471(e)(4)(C) of the Act. Services are to be provided to children and families without regard to children’s eligibility for title IV-E foster care maintenance payments.
- Who benefits
- Kinship caregivers and the children they are raising are eligible beneficiaries.
- Who applies
- State and Tribal agencies directly administering approved title IV-E Plans may participate in the Kinship Navigator program.
- Authorized by
- Social Security Act
- Program site
- http://www.acf.hhs.gov/cb ↗
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