Assistance program
AmeriCorps Seniors Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) 94.002
$413.3 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Corporation for National and Community Service, CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
- Assistance
- Project Grants (Discretionary)
- CFDA number
- 94.002
- What it does
- RSVP provides grants that support volunteers 55 years and older serving in a diverse range of activities that meet specific community needs and respond to the National Performance Measures.
- Who benefits
- Individuals who serve as RSVP volunteers must be age 55 and older who are willing to volunteer on a regular basis by serving in a diverse range of activities that meet specific community needs. See the program's Notice of Federal Funding for additional information.
- Who applies
- See the program's Notice of Funding Availability/Opportunity.
- Authorized by
- Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973, as amended
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