Federal grant programs / Department of Housing and Urban Development

Rural Capacity Building for Community Development and Affordable Housing Grants (14.265)

Also known as Rural Capacity Building Program

• Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$31.2 million
• Grant awards16
• Typical award$2.2 million
• Awarded in FY 2025$12.0 million
• Size rank1,173 of 1,823
• Type of assistanceProject grants

Key findings

• Annual funding rose from $10.0 million in fiscal 2021 to $12.0 million in fiscal 2025.
• It is the 1173rd largest of 1,823 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
• The 6 largest recipients received 102% of the money.
• Awards went to recipients in 5 states and territories.

What the program funds

The Rural Capacity Building program enhances the capacity and ability of rural housing development organizations, Community Development Corporations (CDCs), Community Housing Development Organizations (CHDOs), local governments, and Indian tribes (eligible beneficiaries) to carry out affordable housing and community development activities in rural areas for the benefit of low-income families and persons. The Rural Capacity Building program achieves this by funding National Organizations with expertise in rural housing and rural community development who work directly to build the capacity of eligible beneficiaries.

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

Only National Organizations that are 501(c)(3) nonprofits, other than institutions of higher education, can apply for RCB funding. For the purpose of the RCB program, a National Organization must be a single organization that has experience conducting RCB eligible activities with RCB eligible beneficiaries within the last ten years in at least seven Federal HUD regions. Having relevant experience working in one state in a HUD region is sufficient for counting that region towards the seven-region minimum. Federal regions are described on HUD’s website at: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/localoffices/regions .

What the money can and cannot pay for

Funds may be used to provide the following services: 1. Training, education, support, and advice to enhance the technical and administrative capabilities to serve rural areas of rural housing development organizations, CDCs, CHDOs, local governments, and Indian tribes, including building their capacity to participate in consolidated planning, as well as in fair housing planning and Continuum of Care homeless assistance efforts that help ensure community-wide participation in assessing area needs; consulting broadly within the community; cooperatively planning for the use of available resources in a comprehensive and holistic manner; and assisting in evaluating performance under these community efforts and in linking plans with neighboring communities to foster regional planning; 2. Loans, pass-through grants or other financial assistance to rural housing organizations, CDCs, CHDOs, local governments, and Indian tribes serving rural areas to carry out community development and affordable housing activities that benefit low-income or low- and moderate-income families and persons by building the capacity of those eligible beneficiaries to in rural areas. 3. Such other activities as may be determined by the grantees in consultation with the Secretary or his or her designee. Currently only RCB related Administration activities are eligible under this category. Assistance is restricted to the capacity building activities for eligible beneficiaries.;

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 FY 2021 the minimum grant award possible was $1,250,000 and the maximum grant award was $2,500,000 per budget period. The FY 2021 and 2022 awards were combined and resulted in a $10,000,000 NOFO with $5,000,000 million for each year. The maximum award eligible was $2,325,000 and the minimum was $1,700,000. 5 awards were made, and they ranged from 1,700,000 to $2,325,000. The projected obligations are for FY2023 are $6,000,000.

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.