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VCGP (Authority: 38 U.S.C. 501, 2408)
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To assist States and federally recognized tribal governments in the establishment, expansion, and improvement of veterans' cemeteries.
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.
To date the program has awarded more than $664 million dollars to establish, expand, or improve 104 state and tribal government cemeteries in 47 states and territories (including Guam and Saipan).
To date the program has awarded more than $664 million dollars to establish, expand, or improve 104 state and tribal government cemeteries in 47 states and territories (including Guam and Saipan).
To date the program has awarded more than $664 million dollars to establish, expand, or improve 104 state and tribal government cemeteries in 47 states and territories (including Guam and Saipan).
Since 1980, VCGP awarded grants totaling more than $1 billion that 49 states, tribes and territories (including Guam, Saipan and Puerto Rico) used to establish, expand, improve, and operate and maintain 122 Veterans cemeteries. In 2024, VA grant funded Veterans cemeteries interred 42,720 Veterans and eligible family members, or approximately 24% of the total annual interments in all national, state, territory, and tribal cemeteries (176,965). In 2022, the program opened one new state cemetery, Seaman First Class Billy Turner Ardmore Veterans Cemetery in Ardmore, OK and one new tribal Veterans cemetery, Annette Island Reserve Veterans Cemetery in Metlakatla, AK. In 2023, with VA’s grant funding, Minnesota dedicated the State Veterans Cemetery at Redwood Falls in rural Southwestern Minnesota. These three cemeteries provide a burial option to 29,563 unserved Veterans and their eligible family members.
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.
