International Financial Assistance Projects Sponsored by the Office of International and Tribal Affairs (66.931)
International Financial Assistance Projects Sponsored by the Office of International and Tribal Affairs (Assistance Listing 66.931) is run by the Environmental Protection Agency. It awarded $22.4 million in 13 grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, about $1.7 million per award on average. No funding opportunity is open on Grants.gov right now.
The typical award was $800,000. Half of the 13 awards fell between $200,000 and $1.4 million, and they ranged from $124,500 to $10.4 million.
- Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$22.4 million
- Grant awards13
- Typical award$800,000
- Awarded in FY 2025$8.4 million
- Size rank1276 of 1824
- Type of assistanceProject grants
Key findings
- Annual funding rose from $3.4 million in fiscal 2021 to $8.4 million in fiscal 2025.
- It is the 1276th largest of 1,824 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
- Awards went to recipients in 2 states and territories.
What the program funds
The Office of International and Tribal Affairs (OITA) engages both bilaterally and through multilateral institutions to improve international cooperation to prevent and address the transboundary movement of pollution. OITA will engage with key priority countries to address air pollution that contributes significant pollution to the domestic and international environment. Strengthening environmental protection abroad so that it is on par with practices in the U.S. helps build a level playing field for industry and promotes opportunities for technologies and innovation and the agency’s international programs also play an important role in fulfilling national security and foreign policy objectives. OITA will continue technical and policy assistance for global and regional efforts to address international sources of harmful pollutants. OITA will engage multilaterally and bilaterally to prevent and reduce marine litter, an increasingly prominent global issue that can negatively impact domestic water quality, tourism, industry and public health in the U.S. OITA works with NPMs and Regional Offices to formulate U.S. international policies and to implement EPA’s international programs that provide policy and technical assistance to other countries. OITA will continue to link anticipated and achieved outcomes to the Agency’s Strategic Goals. In FY 2026, OITA will continue to strengthen its focus on prioritizing, allocating resources, and managing assistance agreements to advance the Agency’s Strategic Goals and international priorities while maximizing limited resources most effectively and efficiently. Working with the experts from EPA's other programs and regional offices, other government agencies, and other nations and international organizations, OITA will identify international environmental issues that may adversely impact the United States and help to design and implement technical and policy options to address them.
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
What the money can and cannot pay for
Grants and cooperative agreements are available to support recipients' allowable direct cost expenditures incident to the approved project plus allocable portions of allowable indirect costs of the institution, in accordance with established EPA policy, 2 CFR parts 200 and 1500. Funding awarded for international research under these projects does not include research within the purview of EPA's Office of Research and Development. Assistance agreement awards under this program may involve or relate to geospatial information. Geospatial information is information that identifies the geographic location and characteristics of natural or constructed features or boundaries on the earth, or applications, tools, and hardware associated with the generation, maintenance, or distribution of such information. This information may be derived from, among other things, GPS, remote sensing, mapping, charting, and surveying technologies, or statistical data. Further information regarding geospatial information may be obtained by viewing the following website: Geospatial Resources at EPA (https://www.epa.gov/geospatial).This program makes Federal awards on a discretionary basis. A discretionary award means an award in which the Federal awarding agency, in keeping with specific statutory authority that enables the agency to exercise judgement (“discretion”), selects the recipient and/or the amount of Federal funding awarded through a competitive process or based on merit of proposals.
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.
Deadlines
For competitive awards, deadlines will be specified in the competitive announcement.
Award range and average, in the agency's words
Average range for past financial assistance ranged from $15,000 - $300,000.
Funding history and past recipients
From fiscal 2021 to 2025, International Financial Assistance Projects Sponsored by the Office of International and Tribal Affairs (66.931) awarded$22.4 million across 13 grant awards, an average of $1.7 million per award.
| Recipient | State | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Nations Environment Programme | 2 | $11.9 million | |
| Organis Cooperation Developp Economique | 2 | $5.2 million | |
| Battelle Memorial Institute | Ohio | 2 | $3.0 million |
| North American Development Bank | Texas | 7 | $2.4 million |
Who usually wins
Nonprofits received 24% of the money.
| Recipient type | Awards | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other | 4 | $17.0 million | 76% |
| Nonprofits | 9 | $5.4 million | 24% |
By state
Each state below has its own page for this program, with its recipients and yearly totals.