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Federal grants in American Samoa

Federal agencies awarded $2.3 billion in grants to recipients in American Samoa from fiscal 2021 to 2025. The largest program was Grants to States for Medicaid, with $459 million.

Grants in American Samoa by type of organization

Private foundations based in American Samoa: 2 foundations, with who accepts applications.

Project grants won in American Samoa

Most federal grant money is formula and block grants that go to the state by law: $1.3 billion in American Samoa, 54% of the total. Programs that pay project grants and cooperative agreements, which organizations apply for, brought $236 million to recipients in American Samoa. These are the largest:

ProgramAwardsAmount in American Samoa
Airport Improvement Program, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Programs, and COVID-19 Airports Programs 20.10620$39.0 million
Head Start 93.6003$27.1 million
Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) 97.0364$21.9 million
Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases (ELC) 93.3232$15.1 million
Inflation Reduction Act - Forest Legacy Program 10.7342$10.8 million
Health Center Program 93.2242$10.8 million
Aging Research 93.8663$10.7 million
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Collaboration with Academia to Strengthen Public Health 93.9671$8.7 million
Economic Adjustment Assistance 11.3075$8.0 million
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance 93.2435$7.6 million
Grants for New and Expanded Services under the Health Center Program 93.5273$7.1 million
Non-Profit Security Program 97.0086$6.1 million
Immunization Cooperative Agreements 93.2682$5.8 million
Community Development Block Grants/Special Purpose Grants/Insular Areas 14.2255$4.9 million
Money Follows the Person Rebalancing Demonstration 93.7911$4.8 million
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Information Dissemination, Outreach, Training and Technical Analysis/Assistance 81.1171$4.1 million
BRIC: Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities 97.0475$3.4 million
Water and Waste Disposal Systems for Rural Communities 10.7602$3.3 million
Marine Debris Program 11.9991$3.0 million
Native American Programs 93.6125$2.8 million

The kind of assistance comes from each program's Assistance Listing on SAM.gov. Programs that use both kinds are left out of both totals.

Largest federal grant programs in American Samoa

Grants to recipients in American Samoa, fiscal 2021 to 2025
ProgramAwardsAmount
Grants to States for Medicaid 93.77826$459 million
Education Stabilization Fund 84.4256$396 million
Economic, Social, and Political Development of the Territories 15.875181$213 million
Environmental Protection Consolidated Grants for the Insular Areas - Program Support 66.6008$169 million
Consolidated Grant to the Outlying Areas 84.4036$153 million
Child Care and Development Block Grant 93.5758$103 million
National School Lunch Program 10.5557$102 million
State Energy Program 81.0416$54.9 million
Children's Health Insurance Program 93.7676$40.4 million
Special Education Grants to States 84.0277$39.9 million
Airport Improvement Program, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Programs, and COVID-19 Airports Programs 20.10620$39.0 million
Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program 11.0351$37.6 million
WIC Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children 10.55722$31.3 million
Head Start 93.6003$27.1 million
Community Development Block Grants/State's program and Non-Entitlement Grants in Hawaii 14.2284$25.0 million
Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) 97.0364$21.9 million
Pandemic EBT Food Benefits 10.5423$21.4 million
Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases (ELC) 93.3232$15.1 million
Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund 21.0291$14.3 million
Highway Planning and Construction 20.20537$12.8 million

Largest grant recipients in American Samoa

The 20 largest recipients
RecipientTypeAwardsAmount
American Samoa Department of EducationOther21$590 million
American Samoa Medicaid AgencyState and local governments30$499 million
American Samoa GovernmentState and local governments154$245 million
American Samoa Government- Department of Human and Social ServicesState and local governments62$221 million
American Samoa Power AuthorityOther21$130 million
Department of HealthState and local governments137$96.7 million
American Samoa GovernmentState and local governments115$87.7 million
American Samoa Medical Center AuthorityOther20$64.5 million
American Samoa Community CollegeColleges and universities64$60.7 million
American Samoa Environmental Protection AgencyState and local governments24$55.0 million
Department of Port AdministrationState and local governments21$42.0 million
American Samoa Government Department of CommerceState and local governments42$38.4 million
American Samoa Government Department of CommerceState and local governments32$36.0 million
Office of Disaster Assistance and Petroleum ManagementState and local governments11$26.0 million
American Samoa Department of Homeland SecurityState and local governments29$21.6 million
American Samoa Government, Department of Public WorksState and local governments45$19.7 million
American Samoa Government Department of Parks & RecreationState and local governments13$12.2 million
American Samoa Community Cancer CoalitionOther4$11.4 million
American Samoa Criminal Justice Planning AgencyState and local governments45$11.0 million
American Samoa Shipyard Services AuthorityOther10$7.8 million

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Where the work happens

The totals above count grants by where the recipient is based. Counted by place of performance, where the funded work happens, grants in American Samoa came to $2.3 billion. Grants for statewide or multi-county work count in no county, so county totals add up to less.

Counties
CountyAwardsGrants
Western District210$840 million
Eastern District113$178 million
Manu'a District63$21.2 million
Congressional districts
Congressional districtAwardsGrants
AS-98944$2.2 billion