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Tribal Colleges Education Equity Grants Program

Apply on Grants.gov →Application closes October 7, 2026

Posted
August 24, 2026
Closes
October 7, 2026
Award ceiling
$228,571
Award floor
$228,571
Program funding
$8,000,000
Expected awards
35
Cost sharing
No
Instrument
Grant
Assistance listing
10.221
Category
Agriculture
Archives
November 6, 2026

Program funding history

Awards made under Assistance Listing 10.221 across FY2024–FY2026, from public federal spending records.

FY2024 obligated
$6.8M
FY2025 obligated
$5.1M
FY2026 (to date) obligated
$1.4M
Awards in window
44

Top recipients: Salish Kootenai College, Inc., Institute of American Indian Arts, Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College, Ilisagvik College, Fort Peck Community College

Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed August 2026

Synopsis

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: 

• Curricula design and materials development.

• Faculty development and teacher preparation.

• Student experiential learning

• Equipment and instrumentation for teaching science, technology, engineering, arts and math. 

• Student recruitment and retention. 

• Instruction delivery systems and strategic partnerships.

Who can apply

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…

How to apply

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