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Capacity Building Grants for Non-Land-Grant Colleges of Agriculture Program

Award ceiling
$30,000 – $750,000
Closes
Nov 10, 2026
Last verified
2026-10-22

Awards $30,000 – $750,000 per recipient for others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Nov 10, 2026.

Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Agriculture

In one sentence

Capacity Building Grants for Non-Land-Grant Colleges of Agriculture Program awards $30,000 – $750,000 per recipient, open to others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Nov 10, 2026.

Record fields
Program pool (total)
$5,700,000
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project)
$750,000
Award floor
$30,000
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Nov 10, 2026
Deadline type
Fixed date
Opens
Aug 26, 2026
Status
Closing soon
Eligible entities
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Geography
Not stated
Matching funds
No
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Application effort
Not confirmed
Use of funds
maintain and expand capacity to successfully compete for funds from Federal grants and other sources to carry out educational, research, outreach, and integrated activities · disseminate information relating to priority concerns to interested members of the agriculture, renewable resources, and other relevant communities, the public, and any other interested entity · purchase or other acquisition of equipment and other infrastructure (not including alteration, repair, renovation, or construction of buildings) · professional growth and development of the faculty of the NLGCA Institution · development of graduate assistantships
Currency
USD

How much money is available?

Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.

Program pool (total)Across all awards this cycle
$5,700,000
Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
$750,000

Who can apply?

level
Derived from the source that published this record
entity
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Source field: entity types
industry
Source field: industries
use
development of graduate assistantships, disseminate information relating to priority concerns to interested members of the agriculture, renewable resources, and other relevant communities, the public, and any other interested entity, maintain and expand capacity to successfully compete for funds from Federal grants and other sources to carry out educational, research, outreach, and integrated activities, professional growth and development of the faculty of the NLGCA Institution, purchase or other acquisition of equipment and other infrastructure (not including alteration, repair, renovation, or construction of buildings)
Source field: use of funds
size limit

Not confirmed

Source field: applicant size limit
clause text

Applicants for the NLGCA Program must meet all the requirements discussed in this NOFO. Failure to meet the eligibility criteria by the application deadline may result in exclusion from consideration or preclude NIFA from making an award.…

We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.

When does it close?

Nov 10, 202619 daysDeadline type Fixed date

What can the money be used for?

5 categorys
The source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
maintain and expand capacity to successfully compete for funds from Federal grants and other sources to carry out educational, research, outreach, and integrated activitiesdisseminate information relating to priority concerns to interested members of the agriculture, renewable resources, and other relevant communities, the public, and any other interested entitypurchase or other acquisition of equipment and other infrastructure (not including alteration, repair, renovation, or construction of buildings)professional growth and development of the faculty of the NLGCA Institutiondevelopment of graduate assistantships

These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.

How hard is the application?

1 field
Effort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
Application effort
Not confirmed
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Matching funds
No

Who has received this funding?

130 awards
Awards on file for this programme, counted rather than modelled.

130 prior awards on file for this programme, largest first. Every row comes from the funder's own award listing; nothing here is estimated.

RecipientStateAmountFiscal year
MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITYNot stated$148,4652020
MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITYNot stated$147,5982018
TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY KINGSVILLENot stated$147,5722018
CAL POLY POMONA FOUNDATION INCNot stated$147,5062018
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, BAKERSFIELD AUXILIARY FOR SPONSORED PROGRAMS ADMINISTRATIONNot stated$145,8172018
TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITYNot stated$145,2342020
ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITYNot stated$145,1192021
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMANot stated$143,7832018
MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITYNot stated$143,2822018
WESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITYNot stated$142,1102020
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEMNot stated$141,4822021
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITYNot stated$136,9042020
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMANot stated$136,7432022
UW RIVER FALLSNot stated$130,0052021
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO FOUNDATIONNot stated$129,7792022
CAL POLY CORPORATIONNot stated$128,8142021
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEMNot stated$95,7852018
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURINot stated$91,8912018
MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITYNot stated$45,3502023
ABRAHAM BALDWIN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGENot stated$30,0002024
CAL POLY POMONA FOUNDATION INCNot stated$30,0002024
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANANot stated$30,0002024
EAST TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITYNot stated$29,8452021
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEMNot stated$29,3082021
UW RIVER FALLSNot stated$27,5232023
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO FOUNDATIONNot stated$25,4822018
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITYNot stated$20,1332020
WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITYNot stated$12,1282020
UW RIVER FALLSNot stated$1,4162022
UW RIVER FALLSNot stated-$1,3492016

Recipient names as published by the California Grants Portal.

What comparable notices state

62 records
Stated ceilings on open records in the same industry.

Among open records stored under Agriculture, 62 of 76 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:

  • 25th percentile$300,000
  • Median$1,000,000
  • 75th percentile$2,000,000

A statistical estimate, not a prediction. It describes what a set of notices has published in this catalogue on the day you read it, and says nothing about what this programme will award. Records stating no ceiling are excluded rather than counted as zero, and the programme pool — what a funder has across every applicant — is a different column and is never mixed in.

Who has won this programme before?

130 awards
Awards under the same assistance listing, not under this notice.

130 federal awards on file under assistance listing 10.326, the programme this notice is published under. These are not awards made under this notice — a listing covers every year the programme runs, and awards under an open notice do not exist yet.

Every award under this programme

Common questions

7 questions
Every answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
How much can one applicant receive?
$30,000 – $750,000 per recipient.
How much funding is available in total?
$5,700,000 across the whole programme. This is the total the funder has allocated, not an amount any single applicant can receive.
When is the application deadline?
Nov 10, 2026.
Who is eligible to apply?
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification).
What can the funding be used for?
maintain and expand capacity to successfully compete for funds from Federal grants and other sources to carry out educational, research, outreach, and integrated activities, disseminate information relating to priority concerns to interested members of the agriculture, renewable resources, and other relevant communities, the public, and any other interested entity, purchase or other acquisition of equipment and other infrastructure (not including alteration, repair, renovation, or construction of buildings), professional growth and development of the faculty of the NLGCA Institution, development of graduate assistantships, as classified by the source.
Is matching funding required?
No. The source states that no matching funds are required.
Has this programme funded anyone before?
130 prior awards are on file for this programme, made by National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Recipients, amounts and fiscal years are listed on this page.

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Provenance
Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-10-22
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-09-02
Assistance listing10.326

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