Interim Report to Congress
Assets for Independence Demonstration Program
Status at the Conclusion of the Third and Fourth Years
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Grantees And Projects |
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| Grant Amounts and Grantee Organizations | |||
| Categories of Grantee Agencies | |||
| Geographic Distribution of AFI Projects | |||
THIS SECTION PRESENTS INFORMATION on AFI grantees and projects. It includes a discussion about the grants awarded for AFI projects, followed by a description of the types of agencies that are administering the projects. The section concludes with a very brief discussion of the geographical distribution of the project sites.
Grantee Amounts and Grantee Organizations
In the first four years of the program, OCS awarded a total of $52,171,537 to 155 grantee organizations and established 211 AFI projects. The amounts awarded varied by the year.
| Fiscal Year when Project Grant was Awarded | Number of Grants | Amount of Support Provided |
|---|---|---|
1999 |
38 |
$9,695,904 |
2000 |
25 |
$4,554,620 |
2001 |
81 |
$21,266,474 |
2002 |
67 |
$16,654,539 |
Many grantee organizations have received more than one AFI project grant. Table 2.2 shows the original and additional amounts awarded to grantees, listed by the year they received their first grant. Table 2.3 shows the original and additional amounts awarded to grantees, by the year they received their first grant. In 2001, approximately 25 percent of grantees had at least one previous grant. By the end of the third program year, 33 percent of grantees had received multiple grants. By the end of the fourth year, this percentage increased to 60 percent. Twenty-two of the 38 agencies that received grants in 1999 also received additional grants in subsequent years. Three organizations that received a grant in 1999 received additional grants in both 2001 and 2002.
In addition, OCS awarded annual noncompetitive grants to two states, Pennsylvania and Indiana, as stipulated in the program authorizing legislation. The amount of these grants totaled approximately $5 million from FY 1999 through September 2002.
Categories of Grantee Agencies
The grantees are Community Action Agencies (CAA), Community Development Corporations (CDCs), government agencies, faith-based organizations, United Way organizations, and other private nonprofit organizations, such as credit unions. About one third of the grantees that submitted information were CAAs. One fourth of the grantees were CDCs. Exhibits 2.1 and 2.2 show the distribution of grantees by the type of agency for each reporting period.
Table 2.2. All Project Grantees and Grant Amounts as of Year Four (September 2003)
Table 2.3. Grant Awards and Amounts by Year
(All Project Grantees)
Based on reports from 103 grantees.
Based on reports from 103 grantees.
Geographic Distribution of AFI Projects
By the end of the fourth year of the program, there were AFI projects in 45 states throughout the nation. The projects were fairly evenly distributed across HHS regions, with the exception of Regions 8 and 10, each of which had fewer than seven projects (see table 2.4).
| DHHS Region |
Number of New Grantees | Distribution of Grantees Within DHHS region | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | Total | ||
1 |
5 |
3 |
4 |
3 |
15 |
CT(4), MA(7), ME(2), NH(1), VT(1) |
2 |
2 |
1 |
10 |
4 |
17 |
NJ(3), NY(14) |
3 |
5 |
1 |
5 |
8 |
19 |
DC(2), DE(1), MD(4), PA(5), VA(6), WV(1) |
4 |
3 |
5 |
8 |
5 |
21 |
AL(1), FL(5), GA(3), KY(4), MS(1), NC(3), SC(2), TN(2) |
5 |
8 |
5 |
6 |
2 |
21 |
IL(5), MI(7), MN(1), OH(3), WI(4), IN (1) |
6 |
2 |
7 |
9 |
3 |
21 |
AR(3), LA(3), NM(1), OK(2), TX(12) |
7 |
3 |
1 |
5 |
3 |
12 |
IA(2), KS(1), MO(8), NE(1) |
8 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
CO(1), MT(1), ND(1), SD(1) |
9 |
10 |
2 |
8 |
1 |
21 |
AZ(2), CA(15), HI(2), NV(2) |
10 |
1 |
0 |
4 |
1 |
6 |
OR(4), WA(2) |
Total |
40 |
25 |
60 |
32 |
157 |
45 States Represented* |
* As of the end of the fourth year of the program, the following states did not have an AFI-funded project: Alaska, Idaho, Rhode Island, Utah, and Wyoming.