2027 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program
Awards $100,000 – $600,000 per recipient for business, nonprofit, public agency, tribal government, closing Sep 21, 2026.
- Program pool (total)
- $28,000,000Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Award ceiling (per project)
- $600,000Estimated amount per award is $100,000 – $600,000. Total estimated available funding is $28,000,000. Expected number of awards is Dependent.
- Award floor
- $100,000
- Typical award
- Not confirmed
- Deadline
- Sep 21, 2026
- Deadline type
- fixed
- Opens
- Not stated
- Status
- Closing soon
- Eligible entities
- Business · Nonprofit · Public Agency · Tribal Government
- Geography
- California
- Matching funds
- No
- Disbursement
- Reimbursement
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- 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.
Source wording: “Estimated amount per award is $100,000 – $600,000. Total estimated available funding is $28,000,000. Expected number of awards is Dependent.”
Who can apply?
Business, Nonprofit, Public Agency, Tribal Government
Source field: entity typesCalifornia
Source field: statesAgriculture
Source field: industriesAgriculture, Disadvantaged Communities, Education, Employment, Labor & Training, Environment & Water, Food & Nutrition, Science, Technology, and Research & Development
Source field: use of fundsNot stated
Source field: applicant size limitNot stated
We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.When does it close?
Funding is contingent upon passage of a Farm Bill and available funding from the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service.
What can the money be used for?
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?
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Disbursement
- ReimbursementRecipients spend first and are reimbursed. Plan cash flow accordingly.
- Matching funds
- NoRequires Matched Funding?: No
Who has received this funding?
Recipient records not linked yet
Prior-cycle recipients, award amounts and years come from the funder's own award listings. For this programme that listing is not connected. When it is, this section shows recipient, amount and year as a sortable table.
The official page governs. If the source and this record disagree, the source is correct — programmes change their terms between our checks, so confirm every figure above before you apply.