Federal grant programs / Department of Housing and Urban Development

Section 4 Capacity Building for Community Development and Affordable Housing (14.252)

Also known as Section 4 Capacity Building

• Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$160 million
• Grant awards12
• Typical award$14.1 million
• Awarded in FY 2025$0
• Size rank668 of 1,823
• Type of assistanceProject grants

Key findings

• It is the 668th largest of 1,823 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
• Awards went to recipients in 3 states and territories.

What the program funds

The Section 4 program builds the capacity of Community Development Corporations (CDCs) and Community Housing Development Organizations (CHDOs) to serve their communities and low-income families with community development and affordable housing activities.

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

By law, there are only three eligible applicants for the Section 4 program. The competition is limited to the organizations identified in Section 4 of the HUD Demonstration Act of 1993 (Public Law 103-120, 107 Stat. 1148, 42 U.S.C. 9816 note), as amended. These organizations are: 1. Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. (formerly The Enterprise Foundation); 2. the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), and 3. Habitat for Humanity International. Specifically, the only applicants eligible for this competition are the three organizations located at the following addresses: 1. Enterprise Community Partners, Inc., 11000 Broken Land Parkway, Suite 700, Columbia, MD 21044. 2. Local Initiatives Support Corporation, 28 Liberty, 33rd Floor, New York, NY 11201. 3. Habitat for Humanity International, 322 Lamar, Americus, GA 31709. Affiliates and local offices of these organizations and their community partners are not eligible to compete either directly or independently for capacity building grants under this notice, but rather may seek funding from the above organizations.

What the money can and cannot pay for

Eligible Activities and Priorities. Funds may be used to provide the following services: 1. Training, education, support, and advice to enhance the technical and administrative capabilities of CDCs and CHDOs. This includes building the capacity of CDCs and CHDOs to: o Participate in consolidated planning, fair housing planning and Continuum of Care homeless assistance efforts that help ensure community-wide participation in assessing area needs; o Consult broadly within the community; o Cooperatively plan for the use of available resources in a comprehensive and holistic manner; and o Assist in evaluating performance under these community efforts and in linking plans with neighboring communities in order to foster regional planning. 2. Loans, pass-through grants, development assistance, predevelopment assistance, or other financial assistance to CDCs and CHDOs to carry out community development and affordable housing activities that benefit low-income families and persons, and community and economic development activities that create jobs for low-income persons. 3. Such other activities as may be determined by the grantees in consultation with the Secretary or his or her designee. Currently only Section 4 related Administration activities are eligible under this category. Assistance is restricted to the capacity building activities for CDCs and CHDOs.;

Matching requirements

This program has no statutory formula. Each dollar awarded must be matched by three dollars in cash or in-kind contributions obtained from private sources. MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

Award range and average, in the agency's words

In FY2024, the program used FY2023 and the source year funds to provide the minimum grant award possible $1,000,000 and the maximum grant award $42,000,000. The maximum eligible award was $16,3333,33.34 and the minimum was $11,333,333.33.33. (3) awards were made, and they ranged from $11,333,33.33 to $16,333,333.34. The projected obligations for FY2024 are 84,000,000; indicative of combined FY2024 and FY2025 appropriations.

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

Almost all of the money went to nonprofits.

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.