Federal grant programs / Department of Agriculture

Food and Agriculture Defense Initiative (FADI) (10.304)

Also known as Homeland Security Program

• Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$33.4 million
• Grant awards83
• Typical award$250,000
• Awarded in FY 2025$3.2 million
• Size rank1154 of 1824
• Type of assistanceCooperative agreements

Key findings

• Annual funding fell from $7.8 million in fiscal 2021 to $3.2 million in fiscal 2025.
• It is the 1154th largest of 1,824 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
• The 20 largest recipients received 98% of the money.
• Awards went to recipients in 20 states and territories.

What the program funds

To provide funding to protect the food supply and agricultural production. This is accomplished by providing Federal assistance, through existing cooperative agreements, to three (3) national agricultural homeland security networks: the National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN), the National Plant Diagnostic Network (NPDN), the Extension Disaster Education Network (EDEN).

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

In accordance with section 1472(c) of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977, (NARETPA) applicant may be: State agricultural experiment stations, State cooperative extension services, all colleges and universities, other research or education institutions and organizations, Federal and private agencies and organizations, individuals, and any other contractor or recipient, either foreign or domestic, to further research, extension, or teaching programs in the food and agricultural sciences of the Department of Agriculture.

What the money can and cannot pay for

These funds are subject to the provisions of 31 U.S.C. 1301 requiring their use only for the purpose for which they were appropriated. Funding is limited to support for the four (4) aforementioned agrosecurity networks. Section 704 of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012 (P.L. 112-55) limits indirect costs to 10 percent of the total Federal funds provided under each cooperative agreements or similar arrangements. Therefore, when preparing budgets, applicants should limit their requests for recovery of indirect costs to the lesser of their institution’s official negotiated indirect cost rate or the equivalent of 10 percent of total Federal funds awarded.;

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 Capacity, Competitive, and/or Non-Competitive project grant, or cooperative agreement are established, these amounts will be announced in the annual Capacity, Competitive, and/or Non-Competitive Request for Application (RFA). SPECIAL NOTE: Please refer to the following websites for further specific and pertinent details: National Plant Diagnostic Network for the Food and Agricultural Defense Initiative (NPDN): https://nifa.usda.gov/national-plant-diagnostic-network National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN) for the Food and Agricultural Defense Initiative https://nifa.usda.gov/national-animal-health-laboratory-network Extension Disaster Education Network (EDEN): https://nifa.usda.gov/extension-disaster-education-network

Examples of funded projects

Fiscal Year2025: In FY25 NAHLN funding was awarded through an Interagency Agreement with USDA APHIS. In FY25 NPDN award was a continuation of previously funded NPDN projects. In FY25 EDEN award was a continuation of previously funded FADI-EDEN project.

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

Who usually wins

Colleges and universities received 87% of the money, nonprofits 6.5% and state and local governments 6.0%.

By state

8 states have a page for this program: those that received at least $1 million or 10 awards.

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