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IAF Assistance for Overseas Programs (85.751)

IAF Assistance for Overseas Programs (Assistance Listing 85.751) is run by the Inter-American Foundation. It awarded $2.6 million in 11 grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, about $235,357 per award on average. No funding opportunity is open on Grants.gov right now.

The typical award was $254,000. Half of the 11 awards fell between $90,000 and $313,103, and they ranged from $40,000 to $629,578.

Key findings

What the program funds

The primary objectives of the IAF Assistance for Programs Overseas in Latin America and the Caribbean program is to: (1) Strengthen the bonds of friendship and understanding among the peoples in the Western Hemisphere; (2) Support self-help efforts designed to enlarge the opportunities for individual development; (3) Stimulate and assist effective and ever wider participation of the people in the development process; (4) Encourage the establishment and growth of democratic institutions, private and governmental, appropriate to the requirements of the individual sovereign nations of the Western Hemisphere.

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

What the money can and cannot pay for

Assistance can be used to fund the self-help efforts of grassroots groups in Latin America and the Caribbean to improve living conditions of the disadvantaged and the excluded, enhance their capacity for decision-making and self-governance, and develop partnerships with the public sector, business and civil society. IAF does not provide assistance to the following: (1) Government Entities (including municipal governments and public universities); (2) Individuals; (3) Privately-held companies; (4) Organizations located in Cuba, Venezuela or Puerto Rico; (5) Projects that do not target grassroots communities in Latin America and the Caribbean; (6) Groups that do not contribute financial or in-kind resources to the proposed activities; (7) Projects that fund religious, research or construction activities exclusively; (8) Projects that are associated with political parties or partisan movements, or charity or welfare projects of any kind.

Matching requirements

This program has no statutory formula. The IAF requires each grantee to contribute in-kind resources and financials. There is no fixed rate of matching required for application or award and each grantee is evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Matching requirements are voluntary.MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

Deadlines

Deadlines do not apply

Award range and average, in the agency's words

The range of financial assistance is from $25,000 up to $400,000 per grant award with an average award size of $310,000.

Quoted from the program's federal Assistance Listing. The notice of funding opportunity is the official source for each competition's rules.

Funding history and past recipients

From fiscal 2021 to 2025, IAF Assistance for Overseas Programs (85.751) awarded $2.6 million across 11 grant awards, an average of $235,357 per award.

Largest recipients, fiscal 2021 to 2025
RecipientStateAwardsAmount
Social Science Research CouncilNew York1$629,578
Instituto de Ensenanza Para El Desarrollo Sostenible1$352,177
Fundacion Centro Bartolome de Las Casas1$322,300
Asociacion Centroamericana Para El Desarrollo y La Democracia Red Local1$303,905
Belize Livestock Producers Association1$268,000
Conselho Pastoral Dos Pescadores1$254,000
Asociacion de Desarrollo Integral Yaloch1$186,710
Asociacion Vivamos Mejor1$110,000
Home of Indigenous Arts Belize Limited1$70,000
Cefocam Antsetik1$52,255
Associacao Tembiu Pora1$40,000

Top states: New York ($629,578).

Who usually wins

Nonprofits received 2.0% of the money.

Recipient typeAwardsAmountShare
Other10$2.5 million98%
Nonprofits1$52,2552.0%

By state

No state received $1 million or 10 awards from this program, so it has no state pages.

Grants by recipient's state, fiscal 2021 to 2025
StateAwardsAmount
New York1$629,578

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