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Alaska Native Serving and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions Education Grants (10.228)

Also known as ANNH Grants Program

Alaska Native Serving and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions Education Grants (Assistance Listing 10.228) is run by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, part of the Department of Agriculture. It awarded $17.3 million in 23 grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, about $752,114 per award on average. No funding opportunity is open on Grants.gov right now.

The typical award was $586,402. Half of the 23 awards fell between $475,000 and $1.0 million, and they ranged from $7,671 to $1.9 million.

Key findings

What the program funds

NIFA intends this program to address educational needs, as determined by each institution, within a broadly defined area of Food, Agricultural, Natural Resources, and Human Sciences (FANH). Applications for the ANNH Grants Program must include activities that: 1.) Enhance educational opportunities for students; 2.) Strengthen institutional educational capacities; 3.) Prepare students for careers related to FANH; and 4.) Maximize the development and use of resources to improve FANH education programs.

From the federal Assistance Listing. Read the full listing on SAM.gov.

Open opportunities

No opportunity under this program is open or forecast on Grants.gov right now. Programs often post once a year, so the funding history below shows what to expect.

Rules from the program listing

Who can apply

Individual public or private, non-profit Alaska Native-Serving and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions of higher education that meet the definitions of Alaska Native-Serving Institution or Native Hawaiian Serving Institution established in Title III, Part A of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (20 U.S.C. 1059d.) are eligible institutions under this program.

What the money can and cannot pay for

Funds may be used to enhance educational equity for under-represented students in order to prepare them for careers related to the food, agricultural, and natural resource systems of the United States; to strengthen institutional educational capacities, including libraries, curriculum, faculty, scientific instrumentation, instruction delivery systems, and student recruitment and retention, in order to respond to identified educational needs in the food and agricultural sciences; and to facilitate activities and cooperative initiatives between AN/NH Serving Institutions, or between AN/NH Serving Institutions and units of State government or the private sector, to maximize the development and use of resources, faculty, facilities, and equipment, to improve food and agricultural sciences teaching programs. Indirect Cost (IDC) is not to exceed 30 percent of the recipient’s Total Federal Funds Awarded (TFFA). 7 U.S.C. 3310 limits the recovery of IDC for the overall award to 30 percent of the TFFA under a research, education, or extension grant. Please refer to the RFA, Part III.E and F – Program Description – Funding Restrictions for specific details.;

Matching requirements

This program has no statutory formula. Matching requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing. MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

Award range and average, in the agency's words

If minimum or maximum amounts of funding per competitive and/or capacity project grant, or cooperative agreement are established, these amounts will be announced in the annual Competitive Request for Application (RFA). The most current RFA is available via: https://nifa.usda.gov/funding-opportunity/alaska-native-serving-and-native-hawaiian-serving-institutions-education

Examples of funded projects

Fiscal Year2025: Projects will utilize the funding to support students in AI and data visualization, food security and native food education, and food and agriculture careers as well as farmers and producers in agribusiness and animal science.

Quoted from the program's federal Assistance Listing. The notice of funding opportunity is the official source for each competition's rules.

Funding history and past recipients

From fiscal 2021 to 2025, Alaska Native Serving and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions Education Grants (10.228) awarded $17.3 million across 23 grant awards, an average of $752,114 per award.

Largest recipients, fiscal 2021 to 2025
RecipientStateAwardsAmount
University of Alaska FairbanksAlaska5$6.4 million
University of HawaiiHawaii7$4.9 million
University of HawaiiHawaii2$1.8 million
University of Alaska SoutheastAlaska2$1.1 million
University of HawaiiHawaii1$950,000
University of Alaska FairbanksAlaska1$586,402
Uaf CTC 53860006Alaska1$578,731
Ilisagvik CollegeAlaska1$475,000
University of HawaiiHawaii1$471,904
University of Alaska SystemsAlaska1$86,401
University of Alaska FairbanksAlaska1$7,671

Top states: Alaska ($9.2 million), Hawaii ($8.1 million).

Who usually wins

Almost all of the money went to colleges and universities.

Recipient typeAwardsAmountShare
Colleges and universities23$17.3 million100%

By state

Each state below has its own page for this program, with its recipients and yearly totals.

Grants by recipient's state, fiscal 2021 to 2025
StateAwardsAmount
Alaska12$9.2 million
Hawaii11$8.1 million

Award amounts are federal obligations reported to USAspending.gov for fiscal 2021 to 2025; see how our data works.