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Healthy Food Financing Initiative Food Access and Retail Expansion Fund (HFFI FARE Fund) is sponsored by See official notice (Kansas Rural Center mentions this program). This program provides funding for planning and implementation grants, as well as technical assistance, to eligible food retail and post-harvest food retail supply chain projects across the country. It aims to support healthy food retail and supply chain projects.
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2024 - 2025 FARE Fund | America's Healthy Food Financing Initiative 2024 - 2025 FARE Fund | America's Healthy Food Financing Initiative 2024 Planning Grant Program 2023 Partnerships Program Due to delays caused by the Fall 2025 government shutdown, final award notifications for Implementation Grant and Technical Assistance applications will go out in early 2026. The RFA was amended on July 23, 2025.
See the summary table in the beginning of the RFA for changes. Download the Request for Applications (RFA) To be considered for a grant in Round 3 of the HFFI FARE Fund, Funding Inquiry forms must be received by August 18, 2025 by 11:59 PM Eastern Time. Any Inquiry Forms submitted after this date and time will not be considered.
Inquiry Forms submitted outside of the SmartSimple online grants portal will not be accepted. To be considered for Technical Assistance Funding Inquiry forms must be received by September 1, 2025 by 11:59 PM Eastern Time. Any Inquiry Forms submitted after this date and time will not be considered.
Loans will be considered on a rolling basis. Applicants will be contacted once their Funding Inquiry Form has been reviewed and, if eligible, will receive an invitation to submit a full application. Review time for Funding Inquiries will vary based on the volume of submissions.
2024 – 2025 FARE FUND KEY DATES SUBMIT A FUNDING INQUIRY FORM The HFFI Food Access and Retail Expansion Fund (HFFI FARE Fund) is a new program under the expanded America’s Healthy Food Financing Initiative. Over the next 5 years, the new program will provide $60 million in loans, grants, and technical assistance for the predevelopment, planning, and implementation of eligible food retail and food retail supply chain projects.
Competitive grants and technical assistance will be available for eligible food retail and food retail supply chain projects in the predevelopment and implementation stages. In the 2024-2025 funding cycle, at least $9,000,000 is available for implementation grants, at least $1,500,000 is available for technical assistance, and at least $16,000,000 is available for loans. Grant funds will be distributed through three rounds of funding.
Technical assistance and loans will be distributed on a rolling basis. Grant awards will be up to $250,000 for implementation and up to $100,000 for early-stage planning, predevelopment, and technical assistance. Loans to eligible projects may range between $500,000-$5,000,000.
Loans may be paired with technical assistance or a grant to strengthen the viability of the project. The HFFI FARE Fund could assist a variety of organizations, business models, and capital needs of ventures that process, distribute, aggregate, market, and sell healthy, fresh, and affordable foods to underserved communities and markets.
Applicants must demonstrate how their proposed project will contribute to food access through the availability of an assortment of Staple and Perishable Foods for retail sale, either directly or as part of the retail supply chain.
Funding should build programmatic capacity, unlock additional sources of capital, catalyze project sustainability, meet financing gaps, and/or enable the next phase of project implementation for deeper impact or reach.
Funding is designed to support catalytic projects that aren’t able to access traditional financing and may be used for predevelopment activities, equipment, construction hard costs, acquisition of land or buildings, and other one-time soft costs such as community engagement and environmental assessment.
Eligible applicant entities include for-profit business enterprises (including a corporation, limited liability company, sole proprietor, public benefit corporation); cooperatively-owned businesses; tax-exempt nonprofit corporations; institutions of higher education ; state and local governments and governmental agencies, authorities, commissions and food policy councils ; tribal governments and tribal governmental agencies, authorities, and food policy councils.
Individuals are not eligible to apply to this opportunity. * State, local, and tribal governments are eligible for grants and technical assistance, but currently not for loans. Reinvestment Fund will host informational webinars to provide potential applicants with an overview of the RFA, the grant and loan application processes, information on how to navigate the online submission process, and to answer questions about the program.
No registration is required. To join each webinar, please use the following links in the webinar schedule below.
HFFI FARE Fund Overview : 2:00 PM Eastern Time on September 10, 2024 HFFI 2024 – 2025 FARE Fund Overview Webinar Recording HFFI 2024 – 2025 FARE Fund Overview Webinar Slides Grant and TA Overview : 1:00 PM Eastern Time on September 18, 2024 HFFI 2024 – 2025 FARE Fund Grant & TA Overview Webinar Recording HFFI 2024 – 2025 FARE Fund Grant & TA Overview Webinar Slides Loan Overview : 3:00 PM Eastern Time on September 25, 2024 HFFI 2024 – 2025 FARE Loan Overview Webinar Recording HFFI 2024 – 2025 FARE Fund Loan Overview Webinar Slides 2024-2025 HFFI FARE Fund Fact Sheet 2024-2025 HFFI FARE Fund Press Release Online Grants Portal (SmartSimple) Registration Guide
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Eligible food retail and post-harvest food retail supply chain projects. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows at least $5,250,000 available for planning and implementation grants; at least $1,000,000 for Technical Assistance. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
The published deadline was July 31, 2026, which has passed. Check the official notice for any future application windows before investing time in a proposal.
Healthy Food Financing Initiative Food Access and Retail Expansion Fund (HFFI FARE Fund) is funded by See official notice (Kansas Rural Center mentions this program). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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