Opportunity Information: Apply for USDA FNS SNAP FFIG 2025
The SNAP Fraud Framework Implementation Grant is a competitive grant opportunity run by the USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) to help SNAP administering agencies strengthen program integrity by improving how they prevent, detect, and investigate recipient fraud, including the trafficking of SNAP benefits. The grant is explicitly tied to the SNAP Fraud Framework, meaning applicants are expected to base proposed activities on the procedures, practices, and ideas laid out in that framework, with the overall goal of reducing fraud, waste, and abuse in nutrition assistance programs.
The legal authority behind the program comes from Section 29(a) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2036b), which authorizes FNS to prevent trafficking of SNAP benefits. Using that authority, Congress has funded these types of competitive grants in recent appropriations to push states toward more consistent and effective anti-fraud strategies. For fiscal year 2025, up to $5 million is available total under this announcement, and the program is structured to fund multiple state-led projects that can be replicated or scaled to improve SNAP oversight and enforcement.
Funding is offered as a discretionary grant, listed under CFDA 10.535 (Food and Nutrition). Individual awards can be as large as $750,000 per applicant, and FNS expects to make around 10 awards. Because the total pool is capped at $5 million, the $750,000 ceiling is important for planning: applicants can request up to that amount, but selections will be competitive and depend on how well proposals align with the Fraud Framework and how strong the implementation plan is.
Eligibility is narrowly limited to SNAP State agencies as defined in SNAP regulations at 7 CFR 271.2. In this context, "State agencies" includes the agencies in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, and Guam that administer SNAP at either the state or county level. The opportunity is not open to local governments that do not administer SNAP, nonprofits, universities, or private entities as lead applicants. A special rule applies to county-administered states: if a county agency submits the application, it must include a letter of commitment or endorsement from the relevant SNAP agency, and that letter must be included in the application package for the proposal to be considered.
The announcement also limits submissions to one application per State agency, which matters for states where multiple offices or counties might want to apply separately. County-administered states specifically named in the notice are California, Colorado, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin, and those states will need to coordinate internally to ensure they submit a single, unified application that reflects the state or county administration structure and includes the required endorsement documentation.
Key administrative details from the posting include the funding opportunity number USDA FNS SNAP FFIG 2025, the agency sponsor USDA Food and Nutrition Service, and an application closing date of July 31, 2025 (original closing date). The award instrument is a grant, the opportunity category is discretionary, and it sits within the Food and Nutrition funding activity area. Overall, this opportunity is designed to pay for concrete, framework-aligned improvements in state SNAP anti-fraud operations, with an emphasis on practical implementation rather than general research or broad policy work.Apply for USDA FNS SNAP FFIG 2025
- The Food and Nutrition Service in the food and nutrition sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "SNAP Fraud Framework Implementation Grant" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 10.535.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2025-07-01.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-07-31. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $750,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 10 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments.
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