Micro-Grants for Food Security Program
Status: Forecasted
Posted date: May 22, 2026
Archive date: July 22, 2026
Close date: June 22, 2026
Opportunity ID: 362540
Opportunity number: USDA-AMS-TM-MGFSP-G-26-0009
Opportunity category: Mandatory
Agency name: Agricultural Marketing Service
Agency code: USDA-AMS
Award floor: $118,800
Award ceiling: $1,900,800
Cost sharing required: No
Funding Instrument Types
- Grant
Category of Funding Activity
- Agriculture
Eligible Applicants
- Others
- State governments
Categories (use these for quoted searches)
- agency_code:usda_ams
- category_of_funding_activity:agriculture
- cost_sharing_or_matching_requirement:false
- eligible_applicants:others
- eligible_applicants:state_governments
- funding_instrument_type:grant
- opportunity_category:mandatory
- status:forecasted
MGFSP assists agricultural agencies or departments in eligible states and territories to increase the quantity and quality of locally grown food in food insecure communities through small-scale gardening, herding, and livestock operations by competitively distributing subawards to eligible entities.USDA promotes climate-resilient landscapes and rural economic systems, including tools to support agriculture, forests, grazing lands, and rural communities. AMS encourages applicants to consider including goals and activities related to reducing and stabilizing the levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere or adapting to the already occurring climate change in their project"s design and implementation.