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Programmatic Appropriations
Senator Gillibrand is accepting requests for information about programmatic funding that benefits New York and our nation. Specific suggestions and details regarding priorities for the Fiscal Year 2026 appropriations process may be submitted for consideration through this website.
The vast majority of federal discretionary spending is programmatic funding. Programmatic funding includes most federal agency programs, including programs that award money to New York entities (e.g. state and local government, non-profit organizations, and for-profit businesses) through funding formulas, competitive grant applications, or loans.
Programmatic requests are requests for Congress to fund an authorized federal program at a specific level or to include language directing a federal agency to implement a program in a specific way. In contrast, Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) Requests (also known as "Community Project Funding" or CPF requests) are applications for federal funds to support a specific project, program, or initiative in New York. If your organization is seeking to apply for CDS funding, do NOT use this application portal. Please use the "Congressionally Directed Spending Request" application on Senator Gillibrand's website instead.
Programmatic Funding Requests
These applications request detailed information that is best provided by organizations, agencies, nonprofits, and firms that are local recipients, administrators, or stakeholders of federal programmatic funding. If you would like to make more general comments about federal programs, please do so using Senator Gillibrand’s contact page. The full jurisdiction of each subcommittee is viewable on the committee’s web site, www.appropriations.senate.gov.
The president’s budget requests are posted on this website: https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/ as soon as they are available, typically within the first few months of each calendar year. Please include the relevant amount requested in president's budget in your application if that information is available.
Deadline
For Fiscal Year 2026 appropriations, forms must be submitted by 11:59PM EST on Friday, April 4. If you have not submitted a request in previous years, we recommend that you contact a member of Senator Gillibrand’s legislative staff well in advance of submitting your form. Please contact Appropriations@gillibrand.senate.gov to be connected with the appropriate legislative staffer.