Executive Office Of The Government Of The US Virgin Islands

Executive Office Of The Government Of The US Virgin Islands, operating as the Department of Agriculture, is a territorial government entity that serves as the prime recipient of federal grants focused on agricultural, environmental, and forestry programs across the U.S. Virgin Islands. The entity operates as a child division of the broader Government Of The Virgin Islands parent structure and has received 178 prime federal grant awards (97% of its recent footprint) across 11 distinct customer agencies, with no federal contracts or contract vehicles.

The Department of Agriculture's grant portfolio concentrates heavily within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The top five customer agencies account for 86% of recent awards, led by the Department of Agriculture Forest Service International Institute of Tropical Forestry Jardin Botanico Sur (51 awards), the Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (38 awards), the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (28 awards), the Department of Agriculture Forest Service (25 awards), and the Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service (16 awards). USDA agencies dominate the funding footprint, reflecting the entity's core mission as a territorial agricultural administration.

Recent grant work spans forest stewardship, agricultural pest surveillance, animal disease traceability, urban community forestry, and food distribution. Representative grants include a $7.7 million Forest Legacy Program Project Grant (September 2024) from the International Institute of Tropical Forestry to acquire Inner Brass Island in St. Thomas for conservation; a $3.0 million Inflation Reduction Act Landscape Scale Restoration Project Grant (June 2025) to fund cost-share payments enabling private forest landowners to adopt climate-smart forestry practices; a $1.44 million Inflation Reduction Act Forest Legacy Program Project Grant (July 2026) for territorial program staffing, due diligence, and competitive proposal development over five years; a $309,000 Urban and Community Forestry Program Project Grant (July 2026) to deliver technical and financial assistance for tree planting, hazard evaluation, and public education; and a $237,100 Micro-Grants for Food Security Program Cooperative Agreement (September 2025) under which the entity conducts a competitive subaward process to distribute funds to eligible sub-recipients including nonprofits, food banks, and local government entities.

Animal health cooperative agreements with APHIS run on recurring annual cycles and cover tropical bont tick surveillance and eradication, animal disease traceability, and animal health national surveillance spanning avian influenza testing, swine sampling, and laboratory activities. Specialized grants address agricultural pest survey and detection work under the Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey program.

The entity received four consecutive annual formula and project grant awards from the Food Distribution Division (most recently October 2025 through September 2026) supporting commodity supplemental food programs for seniors and administrative expenses.

Recent activity shows modest fluctuation: 12 awards in 2022, 14 in 2023, 17 in 2024, 15 in 2025, and 8 recorded by mid-2026 (a partial-year count). Fourteen awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure. The entity holds six sub-recipient grant awards as a child organization beneath the Government Of The Virgin Islands parent, including infrastructure projects (quarantine facilities, forestry buildings, administration structures, and animal housing) executed between 2024 and 2025.