Federal grant programs / Department of Agriculture

Biobased Market Development and Access Grant Program (BDAP) (10.376)

• Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$20.0 million
• Grant awards2
• Typical award$10.0 million
• Awarded in FY 2025$20.0 million
• Size rank1,312 of 1,823
• Type of assistanceGrant

Key findings

• It is the 1312th largest of 1,823 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
• Awards went to recipients in 2 states and territories.

What the program funds

The program provides grants for domestic Integrated Demonstration Units (IDUs) to applicants using agricultural commodities as feedstock and who have successfully completed Phase I of the 9003 Biorefinery, Renewable Chemical, and Biobased Product Manufacturing Assistance application process and received greenlight invitation letters.

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

Applicants using agricultural commodities as feedstock and who have successfully completed Phase I of the 9003 Biorefinery, Renewable Chemical, and Biobased Product Manufacturing Assistance (9003) application process and received greenlight invitation letters to Phase 2 of the 9003 program and demonstrating a need to execute an IDU. To be eligible for the grant, a project must meet the eligibility requirements costs associated with building an integrated demonstration unit and/or costs associated with paying for an existing domestic integrated demonstration unit to run their campaign. Project must also be using an agriculture commodity-based feedstock. Projects must be using the feedstock that was proposed with their initial submission. The term “agricultural commodity” means— wheat, cotton, flax, corn, dry beans, oats, barley, rye, rice, peanuts, soybeans, sugar beets, sugar cane, tomatoes, grain sorghum, sunflowers, raisins, oranges, sweet corn, dry peas, freezing and canning peas, forage, apples, grapes, potatoes, timber and forests, oilseed plants, nursery crops, livestock, citrus, and other fruits and vegetables, nuts, tame hay, native grass, hemp, aquatic plants propagated or reared in a controlled or selected environment, or any other derivative of such agricultural commodities including agricultural residues and woody biomass but excluding stored grain.

What the money can and cannot pay for

Costs associated with building an integrated demonstration unit and/or costs associated with paying for an existing domestic integrated demonstration unit to run demonstration campaign. Project must also be using an agriculture commodity-based feedstock. Projects must be using the feedstock that was proposed with their initial submission. Costs associated with building an integrated demonstration unit and/or costs associated with paying for an existing domestic integrated demonstration unit to run demonstration campaign. Project must also be using an agriculture commodity-based feedstock. The term “agricultural commodity” means— wheat, cotton, flax, corn, dry beans, oats, barley, rye, rice, peanuts, soybeans, sugar beets, sugar cane, tomatoes, grain sorghum, sunflowers, raisins, oranges, sweet corn, dry peas, freezing and canning peas, forage, apples, grapes, potatoes, timber and forests, oilseed plants, nursery crops, livestock, citrus, and other fruits and vegetables, nuts, tame hay, native grass, hemp, aquatic plants propagated or reared in a controlled or selected environment, or any other derivative of such agricultural commodities including agricultural residues and woody biomass but excluding stored grain. Projects must be using the feedstock that was proposed with their initial submission.;

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

Up to $10 million per award.

Examples of funded projects

Fiscal Year2025: Renewable chemical products, integrated IDU's biofuels, and see USDA 9003 programs.

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

By state

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

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