# Connecting Minority Communities

**Agency:** Commerce  
**Account:** National Telecommunications and Information Administration  
**Source document:** National Telecommunications and Information Administration · p. 110  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/commerce/connecting-minority-communities  

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


## Commerce discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $7.00B, FY2026 $11.90B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

NTIA administers the Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Grants program, as required by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021. The NTIA has awarded approximately $263 million in grants under the Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program. The Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 rescinded all remaining funds planned for NTIA grants oversight and technical assistance, and NTIA is using funds transferred from Broadband Equity Access and Deployment to ensure the successful completion of the grants and to continue to conduct grants oversight and technical assistance to protect federal grant funds from waste, fraud and abuse. In FY 2027, grant recipients of the program will complete the closeout process. Through FY 2026, NTIA conducted oversight of these pilot grants and began the close out process for the remaining active grants. In FY 2027, NTIA will work with the Grants Office to complete the grant close out process.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Commerce › National Telecommunications and Information Administration › National Telecommunications and Information Administration › Connecting Minority Communities


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*