Basic Needs for Postsecondary Students Program
Key Facts
Status: Forecasted
Posted date: May 21, 2026
Archive date: July 23, 2026
Close date: June 23, 2026
Opportunity ID: 362508
Opportunity number: ED-GRANT-26-034
Opportunity category: Discretionary
Agency name: Office of Postsecondary Education
Agency code: DOL-OPE
Award floor: $1,000,000
Award ceiling: $5,000,000
Cost sharing required: No
Funding Instrument Types
- Grant
Category of Funding Activity
- Education
Eligible Applicants
- Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Others
- Private institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
Tools
Categories (use these for quoted searches)
- agency_code:dol_ope
- category_of_funding_activity:education
- cost_sharing_or_matching_requirement:false
- eligible_applicants:nonprofits_having_a_501_c_3_status_with_the_irs_other_than_institutions_of_higher_education
- eligible_applicants:others
- eligible_applicants:private_institutions_of_higher_education
- eligible_applicants:public_and_state_controlled_institutions_of_higher_education
- funding_instrument_type:grant
- opportunity_category:discretionary
- status:forecasted
Description
The purpose of the FIPSE-Basic Needs Program is to advance systemic and sustainable solutions to student basic needs insecurity through support programs that address the basic needs of students and to report on practices that improve outcomes for students.