Animal Food Regulatory Program Alliance
🏛 Food and Drug Administration (HHS-FDA)
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Can you apply?
This grant is for organizations engaged in animal food safety regulatory programs and animal feed inspection. Eligible applicants typically include state animal health agencies, departments of agriculture, feed control officials, and organizations working with the feed industry to improve regulatory compliance and food safety standards. The program supports activities related to ensuring animal food products meet FDA safety standards and helping states align their regulations with federal requirements. Geographic scope includes all U.S. states and territories. Activities supported include training, technical assistance, regulatory coordination, inspection protocol development, and stakeholder engagement to strengthen animal food safety oversight and protect animal health.</eligibility_summary>
<parameter name="faq_text">Q: Who is eligible to apply for this grant?
A: State animal health agencies, state departments of agriculture, feed control officials, and organizations working on animal food safety and feed regulation typically qualify. Some federal agencies and their partners may also be eligible.
Q: What types of activities does this grant support?
A: The program supports animal food regulatory programs including inspection protocols, compliance monitoring, training for inspectors and industry, regulatory coordination between state and federal agencies, and stakeholder engagement to strengthen safety standards.
Q: How competitive is this grant?
A: Competition for HHS/FDA grants is typically moderate to strong. Success depends on demonstrated regulatory capacity, clear alignment with FDA priorities, and evidence of past effectiveness in food safety oversight.
Q: What is the typical award amount?
A: Award amounts vary by program and recipient capacity. Contact the FDA directly or review Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) documents for specific funding ranges for this fiscal year.
Q: When is the deadline?
A: Specific deadline dates vary by funding cycle. Check Grants.gov and the FDA website regularly for the Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) announcement for this program.
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Program description
The goal of FDA/ORA’s Cooperative Agreement Program is to facilitate long-term improvements to the national food safety system by strengthening interagency collaboration, improving States’ regulatory and surveillance protection programs for manufactured foods, conducting research, and promotion of the Animal Food Regulatory Program Standards (AFRPS).
Objectives include:
1. Support the efforts of federal and state government agencies to build a national integrated animal food safety system;
2. Establish systems for sharing, promotion, and collaboration of best practices, guidance documents, sampling plans, procedures, memorandums of understanding, and other tools to facilitate and encourage mutual reliance between federal and state animal food regulatory programs and public health agencies;
3. Identify, develop, deliver promote, and/or assist with attendance of animal food safety training programs to support implementation of the AFRPS, as well as training and stakeholder support for provisions of FSMA; and
4. Support the advancement of the AFRPS and future revisions of the AFRPS as part of a system of continuous improvement to ensure the standards are modernized and support the needs of animal food regulatory programs.
Who can apply
Eligible applicants
How to apply
Application links
Required documents
- SF-424 (Application for Federal Assistance)
- SF-424 Supplement (Supplemental Information for Non-Construction Programs)
- Project narrative or statement of work detailing regulatory activities and deliverables
- Budget and budget justification
- Organizational capability statement and evidence of regulatory authority
- Resumes or position descriptions for key personnel
- Documentation of current inspection protocols and compliance tracking systems
- Letters of commitment or partnership agreements with FDA regional offices or other collaborating agencies
- Past performance records and audit reports (if applicable)
- Data on current animal food inspection and enforcement activities
Program contact
- 👤 Terrin Brown Grantor
- 📧 terrin.brown@fda.hhs.gov
- 📞 2404027610
Funding track record
Recent awards under CFDA 93.103 from the last 3 years — real organizations that won funding through this same program.
Top 10 Largest Recent Awards
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$121,795,918
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$76,105,626
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$50,217,964
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$47,940,304
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$36,000,000
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$35,573,997
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$35,391,995
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$30,732,300
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$23,332,999
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$21,347,288
Top States by Funding
- AZ 3 awards $131.4M
- MD 7 awards $108.7M
- CA 9 awards $106.5M
- VA 5 awards $96.6M
- PA 10 awards $77.4M
Source: USAspending.gov — federal spending transparency. Data covers last 3 years.
Funding history
Annual funding for this program — Federal obligations (CFDA 93.103). How funding has trended year over year.
| 2016 | $170,482,435 | |
| 2017 est. | $208,900,832 | |
| 2018 | $173,077,408 | |
| 2019 | $198,507,896 | |
| 2020 | $212,448,590 | |
| 2021 | $218,918,739 | |
| 2022 est. | $255,910,458 | |
| 2023 est. | $246,894,600 |
💡 Tips for applicants
- Demonstrate your current regulatory capacity and past success in animal food inspection, compliance, or feed oversight before applying; the FDA prioritizes applicants with proven track records.
- Clearly articulate how your program will align with and support FDA's animal food safety priorities and regulatory framework to show direct benefit to public health.
- Provide detailed work plans with measurable outcomes and timelines; FDA grants emphasize accountability and results, so be specific about what you will accomplish and how you will measure success.
- If you are a state agency, emphasize coordination and communication mechanisms with FDA regional offices and other states to show how your work contributes to national food safety standards.
- Build partnerships with industry and other stakeholders and document these relationships in your application; collaborative approaches strengthen proposals and demonstrate broader impact.
⚠️ Common mistakes
Applications often fail because they lack clear connection to federal FDA regulatory priorities or focus too narrowly on local issues without demonstrating broader impact. Applicants frequently underestimate the documentation required to demonstrate current regulatory capacity and past performance in food safety oversight. Weak work plans, vague outcome measures, or insufficient detail on how federal funds will directly improve animal food safety compliance are common reasons for rejection.
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