# Tribal College Grants

**Agency:** Agriculture (USDA)  
**Account:** Rural Community Facilities Program  
**Source document:** Rural Housing Service · p. 49  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/agriculture/tribal-college-grants  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2026 | enacted | 8.0 |
| FY2027 | request | 8.0 |

## Agriculture (USDA) discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $20.40B, FY2026 $33.40B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

RD's Tribal College Grants program provides funding to 1994 Land Grant Institutions (Tribal Colleges) to make capital improvements to their educational facilities and to purchase equipment. This funding ' In New Mexico, RD made an investment at Navajo Technical University for the purchase equipment across two departments. The Nursing Department will purchase an adult and pediatric high fidelity simulation lab, and the chemistry department will purchase analytical chemistry instrumentation. The university serves approximately 2,900 residents; it is within a persistent poverty county. Educating the rural residents in this area with essential health and science degrees is crucial for workforce development and hard to fill employment ' The agency invested just under $1.9 million in Montana spread across seven projects. These projects range from making purchases to build-out educational programs to making repairs. In one such project, Little Big Horn College (LBHC) plans to use the funds to purchase land to support their trades and heavy equipment trades programs. These programs will include farming, ranching, cultivation of sacred plants and community gardens. Looking at the agency's impact on funding repairs, a grant will finance repairs to the White Clay People's Hall on the Aaniiih Nakoda College campuses in Fort Belknap Agency, Montana. The building has pumps to prevent flood water from entering the basement, and removing and replacing water damaged interior walls and flooring. This project will extend the useful life of the facilities and support the activities of the College and the Ft. Belknap Tribes. These grants support the disaster recovery efforts in 24 states. The Disaster Grants impact a population of approximately 19 million individuals and support public safety and other essential community facilities. These funds assisted with efforts to purchase life, health, and safety equipment, such as the new outdoor warning siren in Appanoose County, Iowa to replace the one lost in straight line windstorms. Other RD investments include funds to reimburse the city for costs associated with a 2023 flooding event that damaged the electrical and pump system at a water treatment plant updates to facilities, so they are better prepared in the event of a future natural disaster. The Hendry Regional Medical Center will use a CF 2022 Disaster grant to install an emergency back-up generator for its Convenient Care Center in LaBelle, Florida. This funding also will provide much needed health care services to rural residents in the event of an unplanned extended power outage and/or an emergency event which might cause a power outage, such as what occurred in 2022 with Hurricane These grants will benefit more than 2,500,000 individuals. These CF grants will be used to purchase, construct, and/or improve essential community facilities and to purchase equipment. Funds from health care facilities, and other essential community facilities. ' An investment of $3.5 million in Tennessee will be used to allow Mountain People's Health Council Inc. to build a much-needed diagnostic center. Currently, patients must drive two hours to receive diagnostic treatment such as MRI, CT, Mammography, Bone Scan, and other procedures. This new diagnostic center will allow the 3,787 residents of Oneida, Scott County, Tennessee to receive crucial diagnostic services within their own community. ' In the south, $0.5 million will be used to help the University of West Alabama to renovate the second floor of the Black Belt Development and Conservation Resource Center in Livingston, Sumter County, Alabama. The university will use these funds to provide technical assistance, job training, and professional development on the second floor of the two-story building built in 1902 that currently houses events and exhibit space on the first floor. This investment will benefit approximately 12,400 rural residents who live in the service area. In 2025 the agency invested $89.3 million in seven states across eight projects in the CF Guaranteed most of these funds with a $47.8 million obligation. In the CF Direct Loan program, over $851.3 million in funds obligated in 2025 went to support a variety of sectors to include: health care and social assistance projects, educational services, manufacturing, transportation and warehousing, and construction to name a few. The healthcare projects funded facilities such as general medical and surgical hospitals and other physicians' offices whereas the funding for education went towards a wide range of school options such as from pre- CF Funding for Health-Care-Related Improvements and Emergency Response Services: ' RD supports the overall quality of life and prosperity in rural America, which includes investing in health care facilities such as hospitals. The multi-million-dollar investment in direct loan funding in Montana will help build a new medical facility for the residents of Daniels County and surrounding areas. Daniels Memorial Healthcare Center plans to build a new 43,700 square foot replacement hospital. The twenty-five-bed facility will be used for acute and long- term care. This design will allow for a more efficient, patient-focused facility compared to their current 70-year-old facility. The replacement hospital will be located on 7.4 acres on the northwest side of Scobey, Montana. A portion of this funding will provide new equipment for ' Expanding the impact of their counseling services within the Appalachian region of Ohio, Scioto County Counseling Center is receiving a $20.4 million loan guarantee. The Scioto County Counseling Center is one of the state's largest providers of counseling services. The center provides 10 programs including a 24-hour crisis hotline, addiction prevention services, and comprehensive recovery care. This project will finance the remodeling of a closed historic factory into office, treatment, and living space. This building provides Scioto County Counseling Center with additional space, allowing them to increase patient visits from 485 per day to 786 per day. This new facility will also allow Scioto County Counseling Center to bring ' An RD direct loan will be utilized to complete a brick-and-mortar Physicians clinic in Yerington, Nevada. Currently, the staff work in temporary modular buildings that are inadequate for their use and cannot be updated. The intent of this project is to build a brick-and-mortar facility to replace the temporary modular space. The new Physicians Clinic will be constructed and built on land owned by South Lyon County Hospital District. The new Clinic will be approximately 7,600 square feet and it will provide 12 Exam rooms, two provider offices, one treatment room, 12 exam rooms, a lab, and other miscellaneous offices. Critical Community Facilities- Building and Upgrading Schools, Libraries, Public Safety Facilities, and ' Improving educational and job opportunities, the agency awarded $53 million in direct loan funds and $3 million in guaranteed loan funding in Kentucky to be used to build the University of Pikeville's Tanner College of Dental Medicine. The state-of-the-art facility will be 91,000 square feet and will have an annual enrollment of 180 dental students. This project will create 78 full-time equivalent jobs in the Appalachian region of Kentucky.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Agriculture (USDA) › Rural Housing Service › Rural Community Facilities Program › Rural Community Facilities Program: Appropriations


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