Residential Services for Unaccompanied Alien Children
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- Posted
- September 2, 2026
- Closes
- See announcement
- Award ceiling
- $5,600,000
- Award floor
- $2,000,000
- Program funding
- $280,000,000
- Expected awards
- 50
- Cost sharing
- No
- Instrument
- Cooperative Agreement
- Assistance listing
- 93.676
Program funding history
Awards made under Assistance Listing 93.676 across FY2025–FY2027, from public federal spending records.
- FY2025 obligated
- $1.2B
- FY2026 obligated
- −$204.8M
- FY2027 (to date) obligated
- $0
- Awards in window
- 453
A negative year is a net de-obligation: downward adjustments to earlier awards exceeded new obligations in that year.
Top recipients: Compass Connections, Southwest Key Programs Inc, Lutheran Social Services of the South, Inc, U.s. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Inc., Sunny Glen Children's Home
Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed October 2026 · Program page: awards, recipients and the opportunities under this listing →
Synopsis
The Residential Services for Unaccompanied Alien Children funding opportunity is intended to support organizations that can provide high-quality, child-centered care that promotes children's safety and well-being. Funded providers must offer services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and have the capacity to accept children at any time, when it is safe to do so and consistent with state licensing requirements. Although children in ORR care are in the federal government's legal custody due to their immigration status, care providers are responsible for their day-to-day physical care. At the time of application, providers must be licensed, in accordance with state requirements, to provide group home, shelter, or transitional foster care services for children, including any required child placement or related licenses.
ORR is particularly interested in projects that provide residential facility beds and transitional foster care in states and localities near the U.S. southern border with Mexico.
Standard ORR care providers must be licensed by an appropriate State agency, or meet the State's licensing requirements if located in a State that does not allow State licensing of programs providing or proposing to provide care and services to unaccompanied children. See 45 C.F.R. 410.1302(a).
Who can apply
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- City or township governments
- Private institutions of higher education
- Special district governments
- County governments
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Independent school districts
- Small businesses
- State governments
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
Current RecipientsCurrent recipients in the final year of their project period must check when their project period ends. If the project period end date aligns with this funding opportunity’s projected award date, and the current recipient wants to apply to continue providing services, they must apply for this funding opportunity. Current recipients who are not in the final year of their project period and want to apply for this funding opportunity must propose services in a new facility and new location from where they are currently funded. ACF does not fund multiple projects that offer the same type of service in the same location. Applications from individuals (including sole proprietorships), federal entities, and foreign entities are not eligible and will be disqualified from the merit review and funding under this funding opportunity. Faith-based and community organizations that meet the eligibility requirements are eligible for awards under this funding opportunity.
How to apply
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