Tribal Colleges Education Equity Grants Program

Opportunity details

Agency

National Institute of FOOD and Agriculture

Notice type

Federal Grant

Original posted

August 24, 2026

Last updated

October 7, 2026

Notice ID

grant-363700

Summary

The TCEG program (assistance listing 10.221) is designed to help build Tribal education capacity in the food and agricultural sciences for Native Alaskan/American Indian students. This NOFO will begin a new four-year continuation funding cycle. The six legislatively mandated priorities are:

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Eligibility

Applicants for the Tribal Colleges Education Equity Grant Program must meet all the requirements discussed in this NOFO. Failure to meet the eligibility criteria by the application deadline may result in exclusion from consideration or preclude NIFA from making an award. For those new to Federal financial assistance, NIFA’s About Grants provides highly recommended information about grants and other resources to help understand the Federal awards process.

Applications may only be submitted by Tribal Colleges or Universities designated as a 1994 Land-grant Institutions (1994 institution) under the Equity Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 301note). Award recipients may subcontract to organizations not eligible to apply provided such organizations are necessary for the conduct of the project. Failure to meet an eligibility criterion by the time of application deadline may result in the application being excluded from consideration. The eligible 1994 institutions are listed below.

Table 3: Eligible 1994 Institutions Aaniiih Nakoda College Bay Mills Community College Blackfeet Community College Cankdeska Cikana Community College Chief Dull Knife College College of the Menominee Nation College of the Muscogee Nation Dine’ College Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College Fort Peck Community College Haskell Indian Nations University Ilisagvik College Institute of American Indian Arts Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College Leech Lake Tribal College Little Big Horn College Little Priest Tribal College Navajo Technical University Nebraska Indian Community College Northwest Indian College Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College Oglala Lakota College Red Lake Nation College Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College Salish Kootenai College Sinte Gleska University Sisseton Wahpeton College Sitting Bull College Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute Stone Child College Tohono O’odham Community College Turtle Mountain Community College United Tribes Technical College White Earth Tribal and Community College

Eligible applicant categories

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Official Grants.gov eligibility information. Listed categories are not a determination that an organization qualifies.

Funding and program

Assistance Listing

10.221

Funding instrument

Grant

Cost sharing

Not required

Estimated total program funding

8,000,000

Expected number of awards

35 (government estimate, not a guaranteed count)

Official modification date

August 24, 2026

Official Funding Information

Estimated total program funding is the government figure for the whole program, not an individual award ceiling. The expected number of awards is a government estimate, not a guaranteed count. These figures are estimates, not guaranteed funding. The funding-information link is the stored Grants.gov reference, not an application submission URL.

Related Federal Opportunities

• Tribal Colleges Research Grants ProgramNational Institute of FOOD and Agriculture · Due Dec 31, 20
• Capacity Building Grants for Non-Land-Grant Colleges of Agriculture ProgramNational Institute of FOOD and Agriculture · Due 2026-11-10
• Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program Education and Workforce DevelopmentNational Institute of FOOD and Agriculture · Due Dec 31, 20
• Tribal Colleges Extension Program Special EmphasisNational Institute of FOOD and Agriculture · Due Nov 02, 20