FY26 Community Project Funding and Appropriations Requests

Our office’s Fiscal Year 2026 Community Project Funding and Appropriations requests process has not opened – and we do not yet have forms or deadlines for submission. Resources for our office’s Community Project Funding and Appropriations process can be found below, including a form to sign up for updates from our office.

Resources:

  • Sign up here to receive updates on the Community Project Funding and Appropriations process for the current year, when those updates are available
  • Click here for our office’s Community Project Funding PowerPoint presentation from previous years (guidance is subject to change for FY26)
  • Click here for a video recording of our office’s Community Project Funding PowerPoint webinar from previous years (guidance is subject to change for FY26)

Community Project Funding Requests

Each year, the Community Project Funding process allows members of Congress to accept applications for local projects in need of funding assistance, review those projects, and then submit up to 15 projects to the House Appropriations Committee for possible inclusion in the federal government budget.

The Community Project Funding process is highly competitive, open only to select entities as determined each year by the House Appropriations Committees, requires projects to meet eligibility requirements outlined by the House Appropriations Committee, and is primarily for projects in need of funding for capital expenses. Please note that there is no guarantee that Community Project Funding requests submitted to our office will be selected for consideration by the House Appropriations Committee, nor does consideration by the House Appropriations Committee guarantee they will be funded.

Once our office’s submission deadline for FY26 Community Project Funding requests closes, our office will then take time to review each project to determine which projects will be selected to move forward in the process, after which we will announce which projects have been selected. For those projects that are selected to move forward in the process, we will follow up to request additional information that will be needed to officially submit the project for consideration to the House Appropriations Committee for them to review and determines if a project will be included in the federal government budget.

Please be aware that the disbursal of Community Project Funding to approved projects is dependent upon Congressional passage of the Appropriations bills and the president’s signing of the Appropriations bills. After that has happened, each federal agency has its own timeline for disbursing Community Project Funding, which can take several months. It is safe to assume that it could take between 12-18 months between the time a project is submitted to our office, until funding is disbursed from the federal agencies – however, that is just a rough timeline.

  • AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION AND RELATED AGENCIES
      • During Fiscal Year 2025, eligible projects included those related to: Agricultural Research Service, Buildings and Facilities; Natural Resources Conservation Service, Conservation Operations; Rural Development, Rural Housing Service, Community Facility Grants; Rural Development, Rural Utilities Service, ReConnect Grants; Rural Development, Rural Utilities Service, Water and Waste Grants; Rural Development, Rural Utilities Service, Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grants
  • COMMERCE, JUSTICE, SCIENCE, AND RELATED AGENCIES
      • During Fiscal Year 2025, eligible projects included those related to: Byrne Justice Assistance; COPS Technology and Equipment; NIST Scientific and Technical Research
  • ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT AND RELATED AGENCIES
      • During Fiscal Year 2025, eligible projects included those related to: Army Corps of Engineers Construction, Operations and Maintenance
  • HOMELAND SECURITY
      • During Fiscal Year 2025, eligible projects included those related to: FEMA Pre-Disaster Mitigation; FEMA Emergency Operations Center
  • INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES
      • During Fiscal Year 2025, eligible projects included those related to: EPA State and Tribal Assistance Grants (Clean water, Wastewater, and Drinking water)
  • MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, VETERANS AFFAIRS, AND RELATED AGENCIES
      • During Fiscal Year 2025, eligible projects included those related to: construction associated with the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, Air Force and Space Force, Defense-Wide Agencies, Defense Logistics Agency, Army National Guard, Air National Guard, Army Reserve, Navy Reserve, Air Force Reserve
  • TRANSPORTATION, AND HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES (6 CATEGORIES)
  • Community Development Fund – Economic Development Initiative Projects
      • During Fiscal Year 2025, eligible projects included those related to: land or site acquisition, demolition or rehabilitation; blight removal; and construction and capital improvements of public facilities, except for “buildings used for the general conduct of government.”
  • Transit Infrastructure Projects
      • During Fiscal Year 2025, eligible projects included those related to: transit capital projects or project-specific planning/design for transit capital projects
  • Highway Infrastructure Projects
      • During Fiscal Year 2025, eligible projects included those related to: highway infrastructure
  • Airport Improvement Program Projects
      • During Fiscal Year 2025, eligible projects included those related to: enhancing airport safety, capacity, and security, and environmental concerns
  • Port Infrastructure Development Program Projects
      • During Fiscal Year 2025, eligible projects included those related to: port infrastructure
  • Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements Projects
      • During Fiscal Year 2025, eligible projects included those related to: rail capital projects or systems planning for rail capital projects

Programmatic & Language Appropriations Requests

Separate from the Community Project Funding request process is the Programmatic & Language Appropriations request process.

  • PROGRAMMATIC REQUESTS
      • A request to fund a specific program or activity in the bill at a specified level.
      • Example: Provide $70,000,000 in the Transportation Security Administration’s Procurement, Construction, and Improvements account for the Checkpoint Property Screening System.
  • LANGUAGE REQUESTS
      • A request to include specific bill or report language that does not direct funding to a particular entity but encourages, urges, or directs some type of action.
      • Example: Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies.—The Committee directs the Secretary to expand eligibility for grants under SAMHSA Prevention Programs of Regional and National Significance and corresponding services provided by the Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies to private, non-profit, regional organizations, including faith-based organizations.