Federal grant programs / Department of Health and Human Services

Expanding Access to Women’s Health Grant (93.797)

• Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$8.8 million
• Grant awards15
• Typical award$611,990
• Awarded in FY 2025$0
• Size rank1525 of 1824
• Type of assistanceGrant

Key findings

• It is the 1525th largest of 1,824 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
• The 15 largest recipients received 100% of the money.
• Awards went to recipients in 15 states and territories.

What the program funds

The Expanding Access to Women’s Health Grant Program will provide a funding source to States for activities related to planning and implementing the market reforms and consumer protections under the below-listed provisions of Part A of Title XXVII of the PHS Act to enhance and expand access to reproductive health and maternal health coverage and services. I. Section 2707 – Comprehensive Health Insurance Coverage (Essential Health Benefits Package) II. Section 2713 – Coverage of Preventive Health Services These pre-selected market reforms and consumer protections under Part A of Title XXVII of the PHS Act were selected because of their connection to reproductive health and maternal health coverage and services and the positive impact that CMS anticipates this funding will have on enhancing and expanding access to reproductive and maternal health coverage and services for women in each awardee State. CMS will award grants, through a competitive process.

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

This Funding Opportunity is open to all fifty States and the District of Columbia. Only one application per State is permitted, except for a State in which there is more than one regulating entity responsible for implementation and enforcement of the two pre-selected market reforms and consumer protections identified below under Part A of Title XVII of the Public Health Service Act (PHS Act): I. Section 2707 – Comprehensive Health Insurance Coverage (Essential Health Benefits Package) II. Section 2713 – Coverage of Preventive Health Services In the case of more than one regulating entity, the State is eligible to submit multiple applications, but will be required to split the total grant award allocated for that State. The State regulatory agencies involved must collaborate with each other regarding a proposed budget. Also, each State regulatory agency will be viewed as a distinct recipient responsible for submitting separate programmatic and financial reports. All awards are subject to funding availability.

What the money can and cannot pay for

The following activities are not allowable unless an exception is specifically authorized by statute or stated otherwise in the Notice of Funding Opportunity: • Pre-award costs. • Matching any other Federal funds or local entities. • Services, equipment, or supports that are the legal responsibility of another party under Federal, State, or Tribal law (e.g., vocational rehabilitation or education services) or under any civil rights laws. Such legal responsibilities include, but are not limited to, modifications of a workplace or other reasonable accommodations that are a specific obligation of the employer or other party. • Goods or services not allocable to the approved project. • Supplanting existing State, local, Tribal or private funding of infrastructure or services, such as staff salaries, etc. • Construction. • Capital expenditures for improvements to land, buildings, or equipment which materially increase their value or useful life as a direct cost, except with the prior written approval of the Federal awarding agency. • The cost of independent research and development, including their proportionate share of indirect costs (unallowable in accordance with 45 CFR 75.476). • Funds related to any activity designed to influence the enactment of legislation, appropriations, regulation, administrative action, or Executive Order proposed or pending before the Congress or any State government, State legislature or local legislature or legislative body.

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Matching requirements

This program has no statutory formula. Matching requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing. This program has MOE requirements, see funding agency for further details. This program has MOE requirements, see Notice of Funding Opportunity for further details.

Deadlines

Contact the headquarters or regional location, as appropriate for application deadlines For the Expanding Access to Women’s Health Grant Program a Letter of Intent is mandatory and must be submitted by 5:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time on June 17, 2024. All grant applications must be submitted electronically and be received through http://www.grants.gov by 11:59 pm Eastern Daylight Time on July 15, 2024.

Award range and average, in the agency's words

Grantees will receive a minimum of approximately $600,000 as a baseline award amount from FY 2024 – FY 2026.

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 state and local governments.

By state

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

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