---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 1775.65"
title: "7"
number: "1775.65"
heading: "Eligibility."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/1775.65"
---

# §1775.65. Eligibility.

- (a) Entities eligible for grants must be either:
  - (1) **Private nonprofit organizations with tax exempt status designated by the Internal Revenue Service.** A nonprofit organization is defined as any corporation, trust, association, cooperative, or other organization that:
    - (i) Is operated primarily for scientific, education, service, charitable, or similar purposes in the public interest.
    - (ii) **Is not organized primarily for profit.**
    - (iii) **Uses its net proceeds to maintain, improve, and/or expand its operations.**
  - (2) **Public bodies.**
  - (3) **Federally acknowledged or State-recognized Native American tribe or group.**
  - (4) **Academic institutions.**
- (b) Entities must be legally established and located within a state as defined in [§ 1775.2](/cfr/7/1775.2.md).
- (c) Organizations must be incorporated by December 31 of the year the application period occurs to be eligible for funds.
- (d) **Private businesses, Federal agencies, and individuals are ineligible for these grants.**
- (e) Applicants must also have the proven ability; background; experience, as evidenced by the organization's satisfactory completion of project(s) similar to those proposed; legal authority; and actual capacity to provide technical assistance and/or training on a regional basis to associations as provided in [§ 1775.63](/cfr/7/1775.63.md). To meet the requirement of actual capacity, an applicant must either:
  - (1) Have the necessary resources to provide technical assistance and/or training to associations in rural areas through its staff, or
  - (2) Be assisted by an affiliate or member organization which has such background and experience and which agrees, in writing, that it will provide the assistance, or
  - (3) Contract with a nonaffiliated organization for not more than 49 percent of the grant to provide the proposed assistance.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 7 U.S.C. 1989; 16 U.S.C. 1005.

### Source

Source: 70 FR 70878, Jan. 7, 2004, unless otherwise noted.