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Food and Drug Administration · Department of Health and Human Services

Retail Food Safety Regulatory Association Collaboration CAP

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Key facts

Deadline
Opening date not announced
Award size
Up to $4M
Match ?
Not required · Work out your budget and match
Who can apply
Set by the official notice: see Who can apply below
Where
Anywhere in the U.S., including Tennessee

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How this fits you

  • Available in Rhea County (nationwide program)
  • No match required
  • Past Tennessee awards on file: 42

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About this grant

The proposed cooperative agreement is a renewal of the existing CAP supporting key stakeholders in retail food safety to coordinate and advance retail food protection in the United States. The intended outcome of this NOFO is to collaboratively advance retail food safety initiatives to reduce food-borne illness. This cooperative agreement is intended to advance practices in retail food protection, conduct research related to such practices and identify opportunities for collaboration to reduce the occurrence of food-borne illness risk factors.

Who can apply, from the official notice

Competition will be limited to non-profit national organizations affiliated with one or more institutions of higher learning whose membership includes state, local, tribal and territorial regulatory personnel whose primary duties include retail food safety, as explicitly permitted by the grant-making provisions of FSMA (21 USC 399). These organizations are well situated to assist FDA in leveraging state and local jurisdictions to advance retail food protection and reduce the national burden of foodborne illness and injury.

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Who in Tennessee has won this program

20 awards to Tennessee groups in 5 counties since 2016 · 0 in Rhea County. Largest shown:

Past Tennessee winners
Past winnerWhereAmountFiscal year
University of TennesseeKnoxville, Knox County$6.5M2020
State of TennesseeNashville$2.7M spent that year2025
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, Davidson County$2.5M2019
Tennessee Department of AgricultureNashville, Davidson County$2.4M2020
University of TennesseeMemphis, Shelby County$2M2017
Tennessee Department of AgricultureNashville, Davidson County$1.9M2020
University of TennesseeKnoxville, Knox County$1.8M2025
Franklin Special School DistrictFranklin, Williamson County$1.8M2025
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, Davidson County$1.6M2022
Tennessee Department of AgricultureNashville, Davidson County$1.3M2021
Tennessee Department of HealthNashville, Davidson County$1.3M2020
Tennessee Department of AgricultureNashville, Davidson County$1.3M2016

Source: USAspending.gov; Federal Audit Clearinghouse. Past awards show who this program funds. They don't guarantee future awards.

Tennessee groups that got this money through a state agency or another organization

This federal money also reaches local groups as pass-through grants. 22 pass-through grants on file · 0 in Rhea County. Largest shown:

Tennessee pass-through grant winners
Past winnerWhereThroughAmountFiscal year
Combinedbrain, IncBrentwoodDuke University$538K2025
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, Davidson CountyHarvard Pilgrim Health Care$241K spent that year2025
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, Davidson CountyRegents of the University of California, San Francisco, the$75K2023
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, Davidson CountyRegents of the University of California, San Francisco, the$69K2025
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, Davidson CountyMayo Clinic Hospital$51K spent that year2025
Volumetrix Inc.Nashville, Davidson CountyThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia$50K2023
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, Davidson CountyMayo Clinic$43K2023
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, Davidson CountyMayo Clinic$43K2024
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, Davidson CountyCumberland Pharmaceuticals Inc$42K spent that year2025
Loch & Key Productions, LLCKnoxville, Knox CountyAssociation of Public Health Laboratories, Inc. (THE)$33K2025
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, Davidson CountyThe Queen's Medical Center$32K2024
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, Davidson CountyUniversity of California-San Francisco$29K spent that year2025

Source: USAspending.gov pass-through reports (the first recipient reports each one of $30,000 or more).

About the federal program

Food and Drug Administration Research, also called “General Grant Funding”
Program number 93.103 (the federal Assistance Listing number) · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration · Cooperative agreement (a grant with close agency involvement), project grant

How applications are judged

Applicants should review the individual Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued under this CFDA program to see the specific evaluation criteria that applies.

Match

None required (federal program listing).

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Source: Federal grants from Grants.gov · the official federal record. Last checked by GrantMe Oct 8, 2026.

Reference numbers: official notice number FOR-FD-25-008 · program number 93.103