Assistance program
Food for Peace Emergency Program (EP)
$4.8 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Agency for International Development, Agency for International Development
- Assistance
- Project Grants;Sale, Exchange, or Donation of Property and Goods
- CFDA number
- 98.008
- What it does
- To improve access, availability and utilization of food in food insecure environments abroad. The priority for Title II emergency programs is to prevent hunger and malnutrition in food insecure areas or countries.
- Who benefits
- Private, non-profit institutions/organizations will benefit from this program along with vulnerable and food insecure populations.
- Who applies
- Private non-profit institutions/organizations are eligible for this program. Specifically, an organization must be a Private Voluntary Organization (PVO) or cooperative. If a U.S. based PVO, the organization must be registered with USAID as of the date of its application. In order to be awarded a program the organization must also be registered with the Office of Food for Peace.
- Authorized by
- The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961
- Program site
- http://www.usaid.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.
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how this program's money is paid out.
Grants
$1.0B
22%
Other
$3.8B
78%
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