FY 2026 WIC Infrastructure Grant
Funds WIC state agencies to improve program integrity, farmers-market redemption capability, and modernized WIC MIS/EBT or digital service systems.
RESTRICTED TO: STATE LOCAL GOV
⚑ Only the 88 current WIC State agencies are eligible · Consortia may apply only for objective 3 · One individual application and one consortium role maximum per State agency; if a state agency applies on behalf of a consortium, it may also apply individually · WIC funds may not pay for FMNP activities or costs
Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 30 weak | prototyping/demonstration stage; deep-tech content |
| IPPRA | 15 none | university cannot apply directly (ineligible) |
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 15 none | university cannot apply directly (ineligible) |
Description
FY 2026 WIC Infrastructure Grants must be used for one or more of the three objectives identified below. Proposals may contain more than one objective. Please see the Request for Applications under the "Related Documents" tab for additional information on these objectives and other grant requirements. Applicants must clearly identify in their proposal which of the objective(s) they have selected.
Consortia may only apply for objective 3.
Objective #1 : Promoting Program Integrity to Minimize Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
State agencies will implement policy, process, and/or technology improvements in the WIC Program that ensure taxpayer dollars are used for their intended purpose and serve as many eligible women, infants, and children as possible.
Objective #2 : Creating Opportunities to Connect America’s Farmers to WIC
State agencies will make technological improvements necessary to allow WIC Cash Value Benefit to be redeemed at farmers markets. All activities and costs are allowable for the WIC program only. Farmers Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) activities and costs are not allowed to be paid for with WIC funds, including this funding opportunity and the WIC General Infrastructure funds.
Objective #3 : Developing and Implementing Modernized Technology
State agencies will update WIC MIS and/or WIC Electronic Benefits Transfer(EBT) systems to ensure data accuracy and system compliance and/or implementing digital services that ensure that the State agency runs an efficient WIC program.
Eligibility
These grant funds are available to the 88 State agencies that currently administer the WIC program.State agencies may apply individually or as part of a consortium. Each State agency can submit a maximum of one individual application and be the lead on or be included in a maximum of one consortium application. State agencies who apply on behalf of their consortia may also apply individually.
Apply
View on Grants.gov → CONTACT: Anna J Arrowsmith Grants Officer <anna.arrowsmith@usda.gov>
Proposal brief SEE AN EXAMPLE →
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Legacy IPPRA LLM assessment (v2.0, for comparison)
18/100 · gpt-5.4-mini · 2026-07-06
This is a WIC infrastructure grant for state agencies to improve program integrity, farmers market redemption, and modernized technology. While WIC is a nutrition/public health program, the opportunity is primarily an operations and IT infrastructure award rather than a research, evaluation, or behavioral-science project, so it is only a weak fit for IPPRA. Public universities are not eligible applicants; only WIC state agencies may apply, which caps relevance for IPPRA at a low level.
Legacy scoring history
| 2026-07-06 | 18 | gpt-5.4-mini | This is a WIC infrastructure grant for state agencies to improve program integrity, farmers market redemption, and modernized technology. While WIC is a nutrition/public health program, the opportunity is primarily an operations and IT infrastructure award rather than a research, evaluation, or behavioral-science project, so it is only a weak fit for IPPRA. Public universities are not eligible applicants; only WIC state agencies may apply, which caps relevance for IPPRA at a low level. |
| 2026-07-06 | 18 | gpt-5.4-mini | This is a WIC infrastructure grant focused on program integrity, farmers market redemption, and modernization of WIC MIS/EBT systems. While it touches public health delivery infrastructure, the opportunity is primarily administrative/IT for state WIC agencies rather than research on health behavior, communication, or policy analysis, so it is only a weak fit for IPPRA. Eligibility is limited to state WIC agencies and consortia, so a public university like OU/IPPRA is not eligible to apply directly or as a named research partner. |