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Congressional Grants

Program Information

Popular name

Congressional Directed Spending

Program Number

59.059

Sub-agency

N/A

Program objective

Provide funding for small business development and entrepreneurship initiatives, including programmatic and construction activities

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

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.

2 CFR Part 215

  1. Enacted appropriations act for the Small Business Administration.

Program details

Categories & sub-categories

Business and Commerce

Program types

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Education (13+)
  • Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments
  • Local
  • Major Metropolis (over 250,000)
  • Minority group
  • Native American Organizations
  • Other Urban
  • Other private institution/organization
  • Other public institution/organization
  • Private nonprofit institution/organization
  • Profit organization
  • Public nonprofit institution/organization
  • Quasi-public nonprofit organization
  • Rural
  • Small business
  • Specialized group (e.g. health professionals, students, veterans)
  • Sponsored organization
  • State
  • Suburban
  • U.S. Territories

Additional resources