Environment · Active
Outdoor Recreation — Acquisition · DOI · Active NOFO · mega band
Outdoor Recreation — Acquisition, Development, Planning (CFDA 15.916) - federal assistance administered by U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $200K–$10M
- Typical award range
- 4
- Indexed opportunities
- 2
- Open now
- DOI
- Administering agency
The verdict
According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, Outdoor Recreation — Acquisition, Development, Planning ranks #66 of 504, #2 of 12 within DOI, and #7 of 40 among Environment 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 15.916 is an active Environment program with 4 indexed Grants.gov opportunities. Of the 20 most recent listings shown here, 2 are open for application.
- $200K–$10M
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- November 1
- next application deadline
- $15.0 million
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 8%
- of the catalog is Environment
Outdoor Recreation — Acquisition · upper-band NOFO desk (#132/502 by ceiling)
Outdoor Recreation — Acquisition clears 370 of 502 published ceilings (74th percentile), an upper-band catalog maximum, not a promised award.
Outdoor Recreation — Acquisition 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 · 2026-08-05
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 15.916 · DOI VOL-SPARSE · #66/504
VOL-SPARSE · UPPER-Q · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-OPEN · CEIL-TENS-M · ELIG-SLG · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-SPARSE 4 indexed
- UPPER-Q #66/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-OPEN 2 open of 20 listed
- CEIL-TENS-M $200K–$10M
- ELIG-SLG State/local government
- BOOK-FULL 20 listed / 4 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 15.916
VOL-SPARSE · #66/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestOutdoor Recreation… · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
Active mega-ceiling competition board
Outdoor Recreation — Acquisition combines mega-scale SAM.gov dollars ($200,000 to $10.0 million) with an active opportunity trail (4 indexed rows). Live windows exist on 2 of 20 recent listings. Volume and ceiling both clear the mid-tier bar.
Assistance Listing text · DOI
Land and Water Conservation Fund grants for outdoor recreation area acquisition and development.
Public-sector applicant lane · DOI
SAM.gov lists only government/tribal applicants for Outdoor Recreation — Acquisition. This is a public-sector Assistance Listing corridor, not a general nonprofit or small-business open call.
Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 15.916
59% of the 93 indexed listings under CFDA 15.916 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Outdoor Recreation — Acquisition typically uses to move money. 53% of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $2.8 billion across 92 listings (avg $30.6 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 2,828 across 72 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 15.916, not the 10 listings shown below; a listing missing a field is excluded from that field's total, not counted as zero.
Mostly archived listings · CFDA 15.916
Only 2 of 93 indexed listings under CFDA 15.916 are open (2%); the book is mostly archived. Reported award ceilings swing from $5,000 to $15.0 million (3000×); treat any single listing's ceiling as a local bound, not the program's typical award. Listings span 8 funding-activity codes; the plurality is Other (O, 25%).
- Open vs archived (indexed book)
- 2 open · 91 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $250,000 (81 listings with a ceiling)
- Dominant Grants.gov funding-activity code
- Other (O)
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.
DOI · administering agency
U.S. Department of the Interior
Public lands, tribal programs, wildlife conservation, and natural resource management.
Grants.gov opportunities · CFDA 15.916 2 Open
Readiness and Recreation Initiative (RARI) – Recurring 5 Year Notice
Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership Program (ORLP) Recurring Notice 5 Year
Accessibility Assessments
Educational Outreach Projects
Land and Water Conservation Fund State Assistance + Readiness and Recreation Initiative- FY24
LWCF Administrative Grant Award - FY24
LWCF State Assistance Formula Grants - Acquisition & Construction - FY24
LWCF State Assistance Formula Grants - Planning - FY24
Round 7 Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership Program
LWCF State Assistance Formula Grants - Acquisition & Construction - FY23 Cycle 3
Showing 10 of the 20 most recent listings (4 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 15.916: 4 indexed opportunities · 2 open on the recent slice.
- Start with the open listing P26AS00146 (closes November 1, 2030) before you compare distant categories. Open listing
- U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) administers 12 Assistance Listings in this extract. Agency catalog
- Nearest peer by listed ceiling: STOP (Services Training Officers Prosecutors)… (16.017). 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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