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USDA-FAS-FMD-2026: 2026 Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program

Closed Closed June 6, 2025 Opportunity USDA-FAS-FMD-2026 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$34.5 million
• Total funding$34.5 million
• Expected awards20
• Cost sharingRequired
• Funding typeGrant

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

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

See Section 2 of the funding opportunity announcement for eligibility information.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program awards averaged $62,276; this notice allows up to $34.5 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (100% over five years) went to individuals.
• The notice requires cost sharing or matching funds, so you must contribute part of the project cost.

What the grant funds

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service, announces this funding opportunity to support the Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program (Cooperator Program) by issuing new awards. This opportunity is available to nonprofit U.S. agricultural trade organizations and is intended to create, expand, and maintain long–term export markets for U.S. agricultural commodities and products.

Category: Agriculture.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Agencies often post the same opportunity again under a new number, so check the program's notices on Grants.gov and the similar open grants below.

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