42 U.S.C. § 12524 — Allotments

(a) Indian tribes and territories. The Corporation must set aside between 2 and 3 percent of the money appropriated for this part each year, to give to Indian tribes, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands, based on their needs. (b) Allotments through States. (1) After setting that money aside, the Corporation splits the rest of the funds two ways: (A) half is split among the States based on how many school-age youth each State has, compared to the national total; and (B) the other half is split among the States based on each State's share of the funding it got the previous year under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. (2) In any year when more than $50,000,000 is appropriated for this division, no State's allotment under (1) can be less than $75,000. (c) Reallotment. If the Corporation decides a State, territory, or tribe will not use its allotment — because it did not submit and get approval for an application under section 12525 — the Corporation must instead make that money available as grants to community-based groups running service-learning programs in that State, territory, or for that tribe. After those groups apply and are approved, whatever money is left over becomes available to be reallotted to other States, territories, or tribes with approved applications, as the Corporation decides is appropriate.