Service Area Competition | HRSA 26 006

Opportunity Information: Apply for HRSA 26 006

The Service Area Competition (SAC) is a discretionary grant opportunity from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Health Center Program (CFDA 93.224). Its purpose is to improve the health of underserved communities and populations by funding organizations that can deliver comprehensive, high-quality primary health care services. The competition is focused on ensuring that specific geographic or community service areas continue to have stable, effective health center services, particularly where need is high and access to care is limited.

A key feature of this opportunity is that HRSA does not open the competition for every location at once. Instead, the specific service areas eligible to compete are listed for each SAC Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) in a Service Area Announcement Table (SAAT). Applicants must align their application to one of the service areas announced in that table. HRSA may also release additional competitions during the year through what it calls a Service Area Competition - Additional Area (SAC-AA). That supplemental process is used when an existing awardee can no longer continue providing services in a funded service area, and HRSA needs to quickly identify a new organization to maintain care for that community.

The opportunity applies across the United States and its territories, using HRSA's definition of "domestic." In addition to the 50 states and the District of Columbia, this includes the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. The program is therefore designed to support primary care access not only on the U.S. mainland but also in U.S.-affiliated and U.S. territorial jurisdictions where health workforce and access challenges can be especially pronounced.

Eligibility is limited to organizational applicants rather than individuals. Eligible applicants include state, county, and city or township governments; special district governments; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; other Native American tribal organizations; and nonprofit organizations, including both 501(c)(3) nonprofits and nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (in both cases, other than institutions of higher education). Individuals are explicitly not eligible to apply under this NOFO.

For this specific listing, the funding opportunity is titled "Service Area Competition" with Funding Opportunity Number HRSA-26-006. The instrument type is a grant, and the activity category is health. HRSA anticipates making about 48 awards. The listed award ceiling is $181,000,000. The original closing date for applications is September 22, 2025, and the opportunity record shows a creation date of July 24, 2025.

• The Health Resources and Services Administration in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Service Area Competition" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.224.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2025-07-24.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-09-22. (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 $181,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 48 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), 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, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.

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