Our office’s Fiscal Year 2026 Community Project Funding and and Appropriations request process has closed as of Friday 4/18/25. When information is available on the Fiscal Year 2027 process, this page will be updated.
To learn more about our office’s Community Project Funding and Appropriations request process, and to receive updates when they are available, please see information below.
Resources:
- Sign up here to receive updates on the Community Project Funding and Appropriations process
- Click here to see projects selected for the Fiscal Year 2026 Community Project Funding process; Click here to see projects selected for the Fiscal Year 2024 Community Project Funding process
- Click here for our office’s Community Project Funding PowerPoint presentation from previous years (guidance is subject to change each year)
- Click here for a video recording of our office’s Community Project Funding PowerPoint webinar from previous years (guidance is subject to change each year)
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 the 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.
Program & Language Appropriations Requests
Separate from the Community Project Funding request process is the Program & Language Appropriations request process.
- PROGRAM 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
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- 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.
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