Native Initiatives — NACA Program (Financial Assistance + Technical Assistance)

NACA Program (Native CDFI FA + TA Awards)

Funds Native-serving CDFIs to deliver financial services, technical assistance, and community development in Native communities.

⚠ This may reflect a past cycle — verify the current call on the funder's site.

The Native American CDFI Assistance Program, known as NACA, is administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's CDFI Fund and provides Financial Assistance and Technical Assistance to Native community development financial institutions serving Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian communities. Financial Assistance awards take the form of loans, grants, equity investments, deposits, or credit union shares. Technical Assistance grants build organizational capacity. A Healthy Food Financing Initiative supplement is also available for qualifying FA awardees expanding access to healthy food in Native communities. The NACA Program has awarded more than $220 million in total Financial and Technical Assistance since its inception and has provided over 1,600 hours of training to Native CDFIs.

For FY2025, the program ran under a combined NOFA with the CDFI Program. The application window opened January 16, 2025 and closed March 21, 2025, with awards announced in Fall 2025. Financial Assistance eligibility requires the applicant to be a Certified CDFI with at least 50 percent of its activities serving Native American, Alaska Native, or Native Hawaiian communities. Technical Assistance eligibility extends to Certified Native CDFIs, Emerging Native CDFIs that demonstrate a path to certification within three years, and Sponsoring Entities that commit to creating a new entity that achieves CDFI certification within four years. Award amounts are not publicly specified; they are detailed in the annual NOFA PDF released by the CDFI Fund.

The FY2026 combined NOFA for the CDFI Program and NACA had not been posted as of late May 2026. Organizations targeting the NACA Program should verify that their CDFI certification specifically reflects the Native community focus threshold, as Native CDFI status has separate criteria from general CDFI certification. Applicants should monitor cdfifund.gov for the FY2026 NOFA announcement, which has historically opened in January.