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USF Nonprofit Grant Program

The Access Program or Project by Nonprofit Groups is a grant program under the Universal Service Fund that enables non-profit groups to apply for partial funding of programs or projects that will facilitate affordable access to telecommunications (Wis. Admin. Code § PSC 160.125(2)). The Commission can award up to $500,000 in grants under this program on a fiscal year basis.

Important items to note for this grant program include:

Applicant must be a nonprofit group (defined as an IRS § 501(c)(3) organization).
Funding will be approved for only one year.
Matching funds are required for 25 percent of the total project cost (or a dollar match for every three dollars of grant requested).
The project must assist customers in areas of the state that have relatively high costs of telecommunication services, low-income customers or customers with disabilities in obtaining affordable access to essential telecommunications services.
Applications for funding are due on April 5, 2021 at 4 p.m. CT.
All applications must be submitted via the Commission’s Electronic Records Filing (ERF) system in docket 5-NF-2021.
Additional information about filing on ERF may be found here.

2021 Application Instructions and Forms

Application Instructions npGrantApplicationInstructions2021

Application Cover Form npCoverSheet2021
Budget Summary Form npGrantBudgetSummaryForm2021
Budget Summary Form npGrantBudgetSummaryForm.xlsx
Affidavit npGrantAffidavit2021

Resources for 2020 Grant Recipients

Sample Financial Summary Statement
NonProfitPurchaseStatement2020

Sample Interim Report
2020SampleInterimReportOutline

Sample Final Report Outline
2020 Nonprofit Final Report

Previous Grant Awards

Summary of 2020 Grant Awards: Summary2020.pdf
Summary of 2019 Grant Awards: Summary2019.pdf
Summary of 2018 Grant Awards: Summary2018.pdf
Summary of 2017 Grant Awards: Summary2017.pdf
Summary of 2016 Grant Awards: Summary2016.pdf