Agriculture · Active
Cooperative Extension Service · USDA · High-volume · mega band
Cooperative Extension Service (CFDA 10.500) - federal assistance administered by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $500K–$10M
- Typical award range
- 20
- Indexed opportunities
- 0
- Open now
- USDA
- Administering agency
The verdict
According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, Cooperative Extension Service ranks #145 of 504, #37 of 51 within USDA, and #4 of 52 among Agriculture programs by listed funding ceiling. Across 504 active programs, 47.041 leads by opportunity count (319, funding-ceiling rank #249) ≠ 66.054 leads by funding ceiling ($7.0 billion, opportunity rank #326). CFDA 10.500 is an active Agriculture program with 20 indexed Grants.gov opportunities. Of the 20 most recent listings shown here, 0 are open for application.
- $500K–$10M
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- -
- next application deadline
- $3.4 million
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 10%
- of the catalog is Agriculture
Cooperative Extension Service · top-third ceiling among high-volume books (#132/502)
Cooperative Extension Service clears 370 of 502 published ceilings (74th percentile), an upper-band catalog maximum, not a promised award.
Cooperative Extension Service vs programs with listed funding ceilings
Where this CFDA's SAM.gov award ceiling sits among active Assistance Listings with a reported ceiling
$10,000,000 Top 26% higher than 74% of 502 programs
Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling
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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2026-05-15
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 10.500 · USDA VOL-STEADY · #145/504
VOL-STEADY · MID-PACK · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-CLOSED · CEIL-TENS-M · ELIG-EDU · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-STEADY 20 indexed
- MID-PACK #145/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-CLOSED 0 open of 20 listed
- CEIL-TENS-M $500K–$10M
- ELIG-EDU Educational institution
- BOOK-FULL 20 listed / 20 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 10.500
VOL-STEADY · #145/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestCooperative Extensi… · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
Hottest mega-dollar solicitation lane
Cooperative Extension Service sits in the hot×mega corner: 20 indexed Grants.gov rows and a mega SAM.gov ceiling ($500,000 to $10.0 million). Both competition density and dollar capacity are elevated versus the catalog median; read open listings first, then ceiling peers.
Assistance Listing text · USDA
Formula grants to land-grant universities for research, education, and extension of knowledge in agriculture and related sciences.
Campus applicant desk · Agriculture
Educational institutions are the sole printed applicant type for CFDA 10.500. Cooperative Extension Service reads as a campus Assistance Listing, not a civic or commercial open desk.
Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 10.500
87% of the 154 indexed listings under CFDA 10.500 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Cooperative Extension Service typically uses to move money. 9% of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $491.1 million across 153 listings (avg $3.2 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 630 across 50 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 10.500, not the 10 listings shown below; a listing missing a field is excluded from that field's total, not counted as zero.
Archived NOFO book · CFDA 10.500
None of the 154 indexed Grants.gov listings under CFDA 10.500 are open on the current extract. Reported award ceilings swing from $50,000 to $7.0 million (141×); treat any single listing's ceiling as a local bound, not the program's typical award. 88% of listings carry the Agriculture (AG) funding-activity code.
- Open vs archived (indexed book)
- 0 open · 154 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $350,000 (121 listings with a ceiling)
- Dominant Grants.gov funding-activity code
- Agriculture (AG)
Open counts use the same posted+close_date rule as the rest of PlainGrants; funding-activity codes are the Grants.gov category_of_funding field (first code when several are joined). Ceiling median is over positive reported ceilings only.
USDA · administering agency
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Farm, food, nutrition, rural development, and conservation programs for communities and businesses.
Grants.gov opportunities · CFDA 10.500
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New Technologies for Ag Extension
Army Youth Program Evaluation
Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program Youth Support and Internship Program
4-H Military Extension Educator Program
Agriculture in the K-12 Classroom
1890 Facilities Grants Program
Showing 10 of the 20 most recent listings (20 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 10.500: 20 indexed opportunities · 0 open on the recent slice.
- No open Grants.gov rows on the recent slice, watch this CFDA for the next NOFO drop. How to apply
- U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) administers 51 Assistance Listings in this extract. Agency catalog
- Nearest peer by listed ceiling: Investments for Public Works and Economic Dev… (11.300). Compare program
SAM.gov ceilings are catalog maximums, not guaranteed awards; verify every deadline on Grants.gov before submitting.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure on PlainGrants is rendered directly from SAM.gov Assistance Listings data, no number is typed in by an editor. This grant program's figures are rendered directly from SAM.gov Assistance Listings data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data issue on this page.
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