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Community Facilities Loans and Grants

Program Information

Popular name

N/A

Program Number

10.766

Program objective

To provide affordable funding either through loans or grants to develop essential community facility projects in rural communities to nonprofits, public bodies, and federally recognized tribes. Ensure program is delivered efficiently, effectively and with integrity. Ensure all rural residents have equitable access to program funding with specific set asides for persistent poverty counties, to help rural communities build robust and sustainable economies.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

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.

Additional program information

  1. 2016

    Community Facilities primarily finances health care, public safety and educational facilities. We anticipate in FY 2015 servicing 8,000,000 rural residents through the financing of these types of new and improved community facilities or 14% of the rural population. Community Facilities primarily finances health care, public safety and educational facilities. For FY2016, CF-funded facilities serviced 26,433,226 rural residents, or 46% of the rural population, through the financing of these types of new and improved community facilities.

  2. 2017

    Community Facilities primarily finances health care, public safety and educational facilities. In FY 2017, CF helped over 16,000,000 rural residents, or 28% of the rural population, by financing new and improved community facilities.

  3. 2019

    Community Facilities primarily finances health care, public safety and educational facilities. For FY 2019, we helped 13,000,000 rural residents, or approximately 22% of the rural population, through the financing of new and improved community facilities.

  4. 2024

    707 projects totaling $1,086,315,683 were funded.

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.

7 CFR 1942, subpart A, Community Facilities Loans; 7 CFR 1942, subpart C, Fire and Rescue Loans; 7 CFR 5001, Guaranteed Loans; 7 CFR 3570, subpart B, Community Facilities Grants.

Program details

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Alcoholic
  • American Indian
  • Asian
  • Black
  • Child (6-15)
  • Disabled (e.g. Deaf, Blind, Physically Disabled)
  • Drug Addict
  • Education (0-8)
  • Education (13+)
  • Education (9-12)
  • Farmer/Rancher/Agriculture Producer
  • Graduate Student
  • Individual/Family
  • Infant (0-5)
  • Juvenile Delinquent
  • Low Income
  • Mentally Disabled
  • Migrant
  • Moderate Income
  • Other Non-White
  • Pension Recipient
  • Physically Afflicted (e.g. TB, Arthritis, Heart Disease)
  • Preschool
  • Rural
  • School
  • Senior Citizen (60+)
  • Spanish Origin
  • Student/Trainee
  • U.S. Citizen
  • Unemployed
  • Veteran/Service person/Reservist (including dependents
  • Welfare Recipient
  • Women
  • Youth (16-21)

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