As a reminder for fiscal year (FY) 2025 Community Development Financial Institutions Program (CDFI Program) and Native American CDFI Assistance Program (NACA Program) Applicants, the deadline for online submission of CDFI Program and NACA Program Application materials, including Persistent Poverty County-Financial Assistance (PPC-FA), Healthy Food Financing Initiative-Financial Assistance (HFFI-FA), and Disability Funds-Financial Assistance (DF-FA), through the CDFI Fund’s Awards Management Information System (AMIS) is March 21, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. ET. The deadline to submit the Excel Housing Production-Financial Assistance (HP-FA) Application, for those who wish to apply for HP-FA either as a supplemental award or by itself with no Base-FA award request, is April 4, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. ET. To ensure a successful Application submission, the CDFI Fund encourages all FY 2025 Applicants to submit Applications as early as possible.
See additional important reminders about the FY 2025 funding round below.
Title VI Compliance Worksheet Reminder: Title VI Compliance Worksheets are also due with your Application in AMIS by 11:59 PM ET on March 21, 2025. Title VI Compliance Worksheets must be for the calendar year 2025. Instructions on completing a Title VI Compliance Worksheet are available on the CDFI Fund’s website.
Reminder for Depository Institution Holding Company (DIHC) Applicants: DIHC Applicants who intend to carry out the activities of the Award through a subsidiary bank must also submit a Title VI Compliance Worksheet for the subsidiary bank in AMIS by 11:59 PM ET on March 21, 2025. Please note: It is not possible to attach the subsidiary bank’s Title VI Compliance Worksheet directly to the Application. The Title VI Compliance Worksheet for an Applicant’s subsidiary bank must be completed (for the calendar year the Application is submitted) in the subsidiary’s Organization Profile in AMIS. If the required Title VI Compliance Worksheet for a DIHC’s subsidiary bank is not completed, the Application may be deemed ineligible.
Reminder for Housing Production-Financial Assistance (HP-FA) Applicants: Applicants interested in applying for HP-FA either as a supplemental award or by itself with no Base-FA award request also must complete and submit their CDFI Program or NACA Program funding Applications and indicate their intent to apply for an HP-FA award by the AMIS Application submission deadline of 11:59 p.m. ET on March 21, 2025. HP-FA Applicants must also complete and submit the Excel HP-FA Application as an attachment to an AMIS Service Request by 11:59 p.m. ET on April 4, 2025. See the HP-FA Application guidance on the CDFI Fund’s website for more details.
Guidance Materials
All of the guidance and Application materials for the FY 2025 funding round are available on the CDFI Fund’s website at www.cdfifund.gov/cdfi and www.cdfifund.gov/native under How to Apply Step 2: Apply.
Questions
If you have a question about the Application process, you can contact the CDFI Fund’s Help Desk by submitting a Service Request through your AMIS account; by e-mail to cdfihelp@cdfi.treas.gov; or by phone to (202) 653-0421 (please note this is not a toll-free number).
The CDFI Fund will be answering questions about the FY 2025 Application until 5:00 p.m. ET on March 19, 2025. After that time, Application questions received via Help Desk calls, Help Desk e-mails, and Service Requests will not be answered. Technical support for AMIS will not be available after 5:00 p.m. ET on March 21, 2025.
To learn more about the CDFI Fund and its programs, please visit www.cdfifund.gov.