Outreach and Assistance for Veteran Farmers and Ranchers Program
- Award ceiling
- $250,000 – $1,500,000
- Closes
- Sep 10, 2026
- Last verified
- 2026-10-06
Awards $250,000 – $1,500,000 per recipient for others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Sep 10, 2026.
In one sentence
Outreach and Assistance for Veteran Farmers and Ranchers Program awards $250,000 – $1,500,000 per recipient, open to others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Sep 10, 2026.
- Program pool (total)
- $23,800,000Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Award ceiling (per project)
- $1,500,000
- Award floor
- $250,000
- Typical award
- Not confirmed
- Deadline
- Sep 10, 2026
- Deadline type
- Fixed date
- Opens
- Sep 4, 2026
- Status
- Closed
- 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
- outreach · technical assistance · education in agriculture, agribusiness, forestry, and agricultural-related services
- 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.
Who can apply?
Not confirmed
Source field: applicant size limitApplicants for the OAVFR 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.…
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What can the money be used for?
3 categorysThe source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
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 fieldEffort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Matching funds
- No
Who has received this funding?
231 awardsAwards on file for this programme, counted rather than modelled.
231 prior awards on file for this programme, largest first. Every row comes from the funder's own award listing; nothing here is estimated.
| Recipient | State | Amount | Fiscal year |
|---|---|---|---|
| WISCONSIN TRIBAL CONSERVATION ADVISORY COUNCIL INC | Not stated | $400,000 | 2020 |
| THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND, INC. | Not stated | $398,485 | 2019 |
| E & L DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC | Not stated | $398,250 | 2020 |
| ATHENS LAND TRUST INC | Not stated | $388,690 | 2023 |
| SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL & MECHANICAL COLLEGE | Not stated | $387,357 | 2020 |
| VICTUS PUERTO RICO INC | Not stated | $370,884 | 2020 |
| EASTER SEALS WISCONSIN INC | Not stated | $368,343 | 2022 |
| CORNELL COOPERATIVE EXTENSION OF ORANGE COUNTY | Not stated | $365,838 | 2022 |
| CORNELL COOPERATIVE EXTENSION ASSOCIATION OF JEFFERSON COUNTY | Not stated | $357,797 | 2023 |
| BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | Not stated | $353,005 | 2020 |
| ADELANTE MUJERES | Not stated | $351,224 | 2022 |
| LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA, INC | Not stated | $324,707 | 2021 |
| APPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT | Not stated | $312,638 | 2020 |
| VETERANS EMPLOYMENT BASE CAMP AND ORGANIC GARDEN | Not stated | $296,118 | 2025 |
| SAN LUIS VALLEY LOCAL FOODS COALITION | Not stated | $283,416 | 2020 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND ES | Not stated | $274,109 | 2020 |
| ALABAMA STATE ASSOCIATION OF COOPERATIVES | Not stated | $266,667 | 2020 |
| ARKANSAS LAND AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | Not stated | $266,667 | 2020 |
| TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $262,050 | 2020 |
| IN HER SHOES, INCORPORATED | Not stated | $253,425 | 2021 |
| URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC | Not stated | $251,094 | 2020 |
| ASIAN BUSINESS INSTITUTE AND RESOURCE CENTER | Not stated | $237,500 | 2020 |
| GLOBAL GARDEN REFUGEE TRAINING FARM | Not stated | $208,962 | 2022 |
| ROANOKE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC | Not stated | $200,000 | 2018 |
| TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $199,996 | 2018 |
| SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL & MECHANICAL COLLEGE | Not stated | $199,970 | 2018 |
| WISCONSIN TRIBAL CONSERVATION ADVISORY COUNCIL INC | Not stated | $190,994 | 2018 |
| FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $172,432 | 2018 |
| KENTUCKY STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $152,000 | 2018 |
| RED LAKE BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS | Not stated | $141,338 | 2018 |
| OAHU AGRICULTURE AND CONSERVATION ASSOC | Not stated | $0 | 2023 |
Recipient names as published by the California Grants Portal.
What comparable notices state
62 recordsStated 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?
231 awardsAwards under the same assistance listing, not under this notice.
231 federal awards on file under assistance listing 10.443, 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.
- $1,500,000ALCORN STATE UNIVERSITYMS · FY2025
- $750,000BOARD OF REGENTS OF NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATIONNV · FY2025
- $750,000TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGEMA · FY2025
- $750,000FARMER VETERAN COALITIONTX · FY2025
- $750,000PATHSTONE CORPORATIONNY · FY2025
Common questions
7 questionsEvery answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
- How much can one applicant receive?
- $250,000 – $1,500,000 per recipient.
- How much funding is available in total?
- $23,800,000 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?
- Sep 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?
- outreach, technical assistance, education in agriculture, agribusiness, forestry, and agricultural-related services, 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?
- 231 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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