Federal grant programs / Department of Health and Human Services

Special Programs for the Aging, Title IV, and Title II, Discretionary Projects (93.048)

Also known as Home and Community-Based Supportive Services

• Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$502 million
• Grant awards382
• Typical award$479,995
• Awarded in FY 2025$75.4 million
• Size rank372 of 1,823
• Type of assistanceCooperative agreements (discretionary grants)

Key findings

• Annual funding was roughly flat, $77.1 million in fiscal 2021 and $75.4 million in fiscal 2025.
• It is the 372nd largest of 1,823 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
• The 20 largest recipients received 66% of the money.
• Awards went to recipients in 56 states and territories.

What the program funds

To support the development and testing of innovative programs, services and systems of support that respond to the needs of the nation’s growing elderly population and those individuals in need of long term services and supports (LTSS), to improve knowledge of the problems and needs of the elderly, to help ensure adequately trained personnel in the field of aging, and to demonstrate better ways of improving the quality of life for the elderly, their caregivers and people with disabilities.

From the federal Assistance Listing. Read the full listing on SAM.gov.

Forecast opportunities

• National Center for Law and Elder Rights
  Forecast · Expected deadline March 5, 2027 · up to $400,000
• No Wrong Door System Modernization: Connecting People to Services
  Forecast · Expected deadline March 18, 2027 · up to $450,000
• National Center on Elder Abuse Resource Center
  Forecast · Expected deadline May 17, 2027 · up to $1.0 million

Rules from the program listing

Who can apply

Grants may be made to any public or nonprofit private agency, organization, or institution. Contracts may be awarded to any agency, organization or institution. Grants and contracts are not available to individuals.

What the money can and cannot pay for

Each year, AoA/ACL issues multiple Funding Opportunity Announcements. The specific use of funds will vary across these multiple announcements. Depending on the specific program goals and objectives cited in an individual announcement, funds may be used for any one or more, but not necessarily all, of the following: (a) to demonstrate and/or replicate new or proven methods and practices to improve the quality and effectiveness of programs and services; (b) to ensure proven programs and approaches are replicated with fidelity to the original research (c) to evaluate new or existing programs and services; (d) to conduct applied research and analysis to improve access to and delivery of services; (e) to provide training and technical assistance to professionals in the field. Funds may not be used for: (a) construction and/or major rehabilitation of buildings; (b) basic research (e.g., bio-medical experiments); (c) to substitute, supplant or expand funding for Older American Act formula funded programs, including supportive and nutritional services funded under Title III of the Older Americans Act; (d) medical care, institutional care or income maintenance; (e) projects which do not involve innovative approaches, and whose outcomes do not have the potential for national dissemination and replication; (f) equipment purchases unless the equipment is necessary to carry out a project that is otherwise fundable under Title IV.;

Matching requirements

This program has no statutory formula. This program has no statutory formula. Matching requirements may be required of any grantee to the extent deemed appropriate by the Assistant Secretary for Aging/Administrator for Community Living and are generally set at a minimum of 25 percent of the total cost of the project. MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

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

Nonprofits received 70% of the money, state and local governments 24% and colleges and universities 4.3%.

By state

52 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.