Federal grant programs / Department of Agriculture

Rural Housing Preservation Grants (10.433)

Also known as Housing Preservation Grants

• Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$50.7 million
• Grant awards471
• Typical award$100,000
• Awarded in FY 2025$7.5 million
• Size rank1,033 of 1,823
• Type of assistanceProject grants

Key findings

• Annual funding fell from $12.9 million in fiscal 2021 to $7.5 million in fiscal 2025.
• It is the 1033rd largest of 1,823 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
• The 20 largest recipients received 32% of the money.
• Awards went to recipients in 48 states and territories.

What the program funds

To assist very low- and low-income rural residents individual homeowners, rental property owners (single/multi-unit) or by providing the consumer cooperative housing projects (co-ops) the necessary assistance to repair or rehabilitate their dwellings. These objectives will be accomplished through the establishment of repair/rehabilitation, projects run by eligible applicants. This program is intended to make use of and leverage any other available housing programs which provide resources to very low and low-income rural residents to bring their dwellings up to development standards.

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

Must be a State or political subdivision, public nonprofit corporation, Indian tribal corporations, authorized to receive and administer housing preservation grants, private nonprofit corporation, or a consortium of such eligible entities. Applicants must provide assistance under this program to persons residing in eligible rural areas available online at eligbility.sc.egov.usda.gov. Assistance is authorized for eligible applicants in the United States, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and the territories and possessions of the United States.

What the money can and cannot pay for

The majority of funds must be used for loans, grants or other assistance on individual homes, homeowners, rental properties or co-ops to pay any part of the cost for repair or rehabilitation of structures.

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

In FY24, smallest grant was $26,234 and largest was $214,038. Approximate average grant was $92,762.

Examples of funded projects

Fiscal Year2025: A grant of $26,234 to rehab 8 homes with leveraged funds of $27,707 in Vermont; a grant of $287,607 to rehab 8 homes in Alabama; and a grant of $119,487 leveraged with $70,000 to rehab 100 homes in California.

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

State and local governments received 98% of the money, nonprofits 1.4%.

By state

21 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.