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Healthy Food Financing Initiative

Program Information

Popular name

HFFI

Program Number

10.872

Program objective

The Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) is an inter-Department initiative that is carried out by the U.S. Treasury through its CDFI fund, Health and Human Services’ Community Economic Development Program, and USDA’s Rural Development. The purpose of the program is to improve access to affordable, healthy foods in urban and rural areas, particularly those areas composed predominantly of lower income neighborhoods and communities. RD provides financial assistance to a National Fund Manager, who administers a grant program and provides technical assistance.

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. 2023

    Department awarded a $500,000 grant for technical assistance.

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.

Program details

Program types

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments
  • Local
  • Native American Organizations
  • Other private institution/organization
  • Private nonprofit institution/organization
  • Profit organization
  • Public nonprofit institution/organization
  • Specialized group (e.g. health professionals, students, veterans)
  • State

Additional resources