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Micro-Grants Program, Micro-Grants, MGFSP
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Eligible agricultural agencies or departments competitively distribute grant funds through subawards to eligible entities. Subaward projects funded through MGFSP help increase the quantity and quality of locally grown food in food insecure communities through the completion of small-scale gardening, herding, livestock and other projects that expand access to food and knowledge of food security. The eligible agencies or departments are responsible for conducting a subaward competition, defining specific details of their subaward programs, and ensuring projects are appropriate for the MGFSP. This includes announcing the availability of funding, conducting public outreach, recruiting reviewers, and administering the subaward competition. In addition, eligible agricultural agencies or state departments are responsible for administratively overseeing awarded subrecipients. This includes ensuring subrecipients maintain appropriate records, monitoring subaward projects for compliance with applicable Federal statutes and regulations and applicable AMS General Terms and Conditions, collecting project data, reporting on program outcomes and statutory requirements, and submitting reports to AMS.
This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the
administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.
For more information on each of these data sources, please see the
About the data page.
Please see https://www.ams.usda.gov/services/grants/mgfsp/awards
In Fiscal Year 2024, over $4.7 million was awarded to four eligible state departments of agriculture including Alaska, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and Hawaii. Only 4 of the 10 eligible states and territory applied to the program. Unclaimed funds were redistributed to applicants according to the formula
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
