Grant Details

Eligibility Details

Designation as an eligible institution is required prior to formal application to the AANAPISI (or any other Higher Education Act) grant program. To be eligible for HEA Title III or V programs, an institution of higher education's average educational and general expenditures” (E&G) per full-time equivalent (FTE) undergraduate student must be less than the average E&G expenditures per FTE undergraduate student of institutions that offer similar instruction in that year. Pending this initial calculation or approval of waiver, institutions must then meet further qualifications based on the specific grant program under the HEA for which they wish to apply.

The Department has instituted a process known as the Eligibility Matrix (EM), under which they will use information submitted by IHEs to IPEDS to determine which institutions meet the basic eligibility requirements for the programs authorized by Title III or Title V of the HEA. The Department will use enrollment and fiscal data for the 2020-2021 year submitted by institutions to IPEDS to make eligibility determinations for FY 2023.

Beginning January 17, 2023, an institution will be able to review the Department's EM eligibility decision by checking the eligibility system linked through the Department's Institutional Service Eligibility website: http://www2.ed.gov/?about/?offices/?list/?ope/?idues/?eligibility.html. The direct link is https://HEPIS.ed.gov/?.

If the EM entry for your institution indicates your institution is eligible for a particular program grant, you will not need to apply for eligibility or submit a waiver request as described in this notice. Rather, if you choose to apply for the grant, you may print out the eligibility letter directly. However, if the EM does not show that your institution is automatically eligible for a program in which you plan to apply for a grant, you must submit a waiver request as discussed in this summary before the deadline Note that eligibility designation for waivers are effective for one year: from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024.

The FY22 eligibility matrix is available here: https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/idues/2022eligibilitymatrix.xlsx

Upon general HEA Title III and V funding eligibility confirmation, the AANAPISI program further requires that applicants are Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) that are Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-serving, meaning that, it has an enrollment of undergraduate students that is at least 10% Asian American and/or Native American Pacific Islander.

To qualify as an eligible institution under the AANAPISI Program, an institution must also:

• Be accredited or pre-accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association that the Secretary has determined to be a reliable authority as to the quality of education or training offered;
• Be legally authorized by the State in which it is located to be a community college or to provide an educational program for which it awards a bachelor's degree; and
• Be designated as an ‘‘eligible institution'' by demonstrating that it has:
  • Have an enrollment of needy students; and
  • Have low average educational and general expenditures per full-time equivalent (FTE) undergraduate student.

NOTE: A grantee under the HSI (Hispanic Serving Institutions) program, which is authorized under title V of the HEA (Higher Education Act), may not receive a grant under any HEA, title III, part A program. The title III, part A programs are: SIP; the Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities program; the Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions program; the Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions program; and the Native American-Serving Nontribal Institutions program. Furthermore, a current HSI program grantee may not give up its HSI grant to receive a grant under AANAPISI or any other title III, Part A program. An eligible HSI that is not a current grantee under the HSI program may apply for a FY 2022 grant under all Title III, part A programs for which it is eligible, as well as receive consideration for a grant under the HSI program. However, a successful applicant may receive only one grant under the HEA.

An eligible IHE that submits applications for an Individual Development Grant and a Cooperative Arrangement Development Grant in this competition may be awarded both in the same fiscal year. However, the department will not award a second Cooperative Arrangement Development Grant to an otherwise eligible IHE for an award year for which the IHE already has a Cooperative Arrangement Development Grant award under the AANAPISI Program. A grantee with an Individual Development Grant or a Cooperative Arrangement Development Grant may be a subgrantee in one or more Cooperative Arrangement Development Grants. The lead institution in a Cooperative Arrangement Development Grant must be an eligible institution. Partners or subgrantees are not required to be eligible institutions. 

Deadline Details

Institutions must first confirm eligibility to apply for HEA Title III and V funding prior to applying to this program. For more information about this process, see: https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/idues/eligibility.html.

While the AANAPISI competition typically occurs on a 4-year cycle, the Title III and V eligibility window is annual.

• The deadline to confirm eligibility or submit a request for waiver for any funding available under Title III or Title V of the Higher Education Act in FY 2022 was February 27, 2023.
• Please see https://hepis.ed.gov/title3and5/login.cfm for more information. Note that eligibility designation for waivers only of the non-federal cost share is effective for one year: from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024. Those applicants approved for 2022 eligibility waiver letters are expected to be announced by April 2023.

Provided the applicant institution is listed as automatically eligible within the current FY's eligibility matrix (green color coding) or applied for a waiver (yellow color coding) and received an approval letter, they are then permitted to apply to the AANAPISI program once the window opens.

Applications to the AANAPISI program are to be submitted by May 30, 2023. A similar deadline is anticipated quadrennially. Updates on future funding will be forecasted on the Department's Grant Funding Forecast at: https://www2.ed.gov/fund/grant/find/edlite-forecast.html

Award Details

Approximately $5,623,365 is anticipated to be available in total funding for the FY2023 competition.

• 12 individual development grant awards are anticipated. Individual awards are expected to range from $350,000 to $400,000 per year, with the average award being $375,000 per year. 
• 3 cooperative arrangement development grants are also anticipated. These projects will be funded at $450,000 to $500,000 per year, with the average award being $475,000 per year.
  • Note: A cooperative arrangement is an arrangement to carry out allowable grant activities between an institution eligible to receive a grant under this part and another eligible or ineligible IHE, under which the resources of the cooperating institutions are combined and shared to better achieve the purposes of this part and avoid costly duplication of effort. 

All projects are expected to last 5 years. Cost-sharing/matching is not required unless the grantee uses a portion of its grant for endowment fund purposes. Cost matching with non-federal funds would then be required.