Assistance program
Refugee and Entrant Assistance Voluntary Agency Programs
$735.2 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Administration for Children and Families, Health and Human Services, Department of
- Assistance
- Formula Grants (Cooperative Agreements)
- CFDA number
- 93.567
- What it does
- The Matching Grant Program was created in 1979 as an intensive case management program with the objective to fast-track new arrivals toward economic self-sufficiency within eight months (240 days) of program enrollment, without accessing public cash assistance. The Matching Grant Program assists refugees in becoming self-supporting and independent members of American society by providing funds to private nonprofit organizations to support case management, transitional assistance, and social services for new arrivals.
- Who benefits
- Refugees, certain Amerasians, Cuban and Haitian entrants, asylees, certified victims of a severe form of trafficking, Special Immigrants from Iraq and Afghanistan, and certain Afghan or Ukrainian humanitarian parolees are the beneficiaries. Information on eligibility is available at 45 CFR 400.43 and ORR Policy Letters 16-01, 22-10 and 22-13 at: www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/orr/resource/policy-letters. Enrollment must occur within 31 to 90 days of the individual’s date of eligibility. At least one member of the case unit must be deemed 'employable' and all other members must be otherwise eligible. Individuals who are expected to receive Supplemental Security Income within nine months; individuals who are economically self-sufficient; and individuals receiving cash assistance or supplementary income are not eligible.
- Who applies
- Awards are limited to nonprofit organizations that have a Reception and Placement Cooperative Agreement with the Department of State.
- Authorized by
- Defense Authorization Act of 2008
- Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000
- Refugee Act of 1980
- Consolidated Appropriations Act 2008
- Refugee Assistance Extension Act of 1986
- Program site
- https://www.acf.hhs.gov/orr/programs ↗
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