FY 2026 Bank Enterprise Award Program Application
Status: Forecasted
Posted date: June 30, 2026
Archive date: August 23, 2026
Close date: July 24, 2026
Opportunity ID: 362985
Opportunity number: CDFI-2026-BEA
Opportunity category: Discretionary
Agency name: Community Development Financial Institutions
Agency code: USDOT-CDFI
Award floor: $10,000
Award ceiling: $600,000
Cost sharing required: No
Funding Instrument Types
- Grant
Category of Funding Activity
- Community Development
Eligible Applicants
- Others
Categories (use these for quoted searches)
- agency_code:usdot_cdfi
- category_of_funding_activity:community_development
- cost_sharing_or_matching_requirement:false
- eligible_applicants:others
- funding_instrument_type:grant
- opportunity_category:discretionary
- status:forecasted
Through the Bank Enterprise Award Program (BEA Program), the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) supports FDIC-insured financial institutions around the country that are dedicated to financing and supporting community and economic development activities. The BEA Program complements the community development activities of insured depository institutions (i.e., banks and thrifts) by providing monetary awards for increasing investments in CDFIs and for increasing qualified lending, investment, and service activities within economically distressed communities. Providing BEA Program awards for increasing community development activities leverages the CDFI Fund’s dollars and puts more capital to work in distressed communities throughout the nation.