Assistance program
AmeriCorps Volunteer Generation Fund 94.021
$72.3 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Corporation for National and Community Service, CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
- Assistance
- Project Grants (Discretionary)
- CFDA number
- 94.021
- What it does
- The Volunteer Generation Fund focuses on investments in volunteer management practices that strengthens nonprofit organizations and other entity’s ability to increase recruitment and retention of volunteers to meet critical community needs through service. AmeriCorps seeks to fund effective approaches that expand volunteering, strengthen the capacity of volunteer connector organizations to recruit and retain skill-based volunteers, and develop strategies to use volunteers effectively to solve community problems.
- Who benefits
- N/A
- Who applies
- Use of assistance must be consistent with the funded, approved grant application.
- Authorized by
- Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act
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