The purpose of the FY 2026 Health Center Program Service Area Competition (SAC) improves the health of underserved communities and populations by providing grants to support the delivery of comprehensive, high-quality primary health care in the United States and its territories.

In alignment with the President’s Make American Healthy Again (MAHA) priorities, this funding opportunity supports health centers, which are trusted resources in their communities, to prevent and manage chronic illness and disease in rural and urban communities across the United States. This includes:

• Support for services integral to the prevention and management of chronic conditions in both children, adults, and older adults
• Cancer screening
• Health and nutrition education
• Mental health services
• Patient support services such as services to support patients’ access to healthy foods and other resources that can address barriers to health and wellbeing

Funding Information

• Expected total available funding: $232,000,000
• Expected number and type of awards 93 grants
• Awards may be made for one or four 12-month budget periods.

Eligibility Criteria

• You can apply as a Competing Continuation applicant if you are a current Health Center Program (H80) award recipient, and you are applying to continue serving your current service area.
• You can apply as a Competing Supplement applicant if you are a current Health Center Program (H80) award recipient that will serve an announced service area by adding one or more new, full-time, permanent service delivery sites to serve the additional area.
• You can apply as a New applicant if you are not currently funded through the Health Center Program, and you are applying to serve a service area listed in the SAAT. If you are a Health Center Program Look-Alike, you can apply as a new applicant. If awarded, you will stop being a look-alike and become a funded health center (H80).
• These types of domestic organizations may apply:
  • Nonprofits with or without 501(c)(3) IRS status
  • State, county, city, township, and special district governments, including the District of Columbia, domestic territories, and freely associated states
  • Native American tribal governments
  • Native American tribal organizations

Ineligibility Criteria

• Individuals are not eligible applicants under this NOFO.

For more information, visit Grants.gov.

http://grants.gov/search-results-detail/360116