Education · Active
Senior Community Service Employment Program · DOL · High-volume · mega band
Senior Community Service Employment Program (CFDA 17.235) - federal assistance administered by U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $1M–$20M
- Typical award range
- 19
- Indexed opportunities
- 0
- Open now
- DOL
- Administering agency
The verdict
According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, Senior Community Service Employment Program ranks #241 of 504, #6 of 17 within DOL, and #15 of 93 among Education 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 17.235 is an active Education program with 19 indexed Grants.gov opportunities. Of the 19 most recent listings shown here, 0 are open for application.
- $1M–$20M
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- -
- next application deadline
- $150.0 million
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 18%
- of the catalog is Education
Senior Community Service Employment Program · top-third ceiling among high-volume books (#88/502)
Senior Community Service Employment Program clears 414 of 502 published ceilings (82nd percentile), an upper-band catalog maximum, not a promised award.
Senior Community Service Employment Program vs programs with listed funding ceilings
Where this CFDA's SAM.gov award ceiling sits among active Assistance Listings with a reported ceiling
$20,000,000 Top 18% higher than 82% of 502 programs
Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling
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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2026-05-21
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 17.235 · DOL VOL-STEADY · #241/504
VOL-STEADY · MID-PACK · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-CLOSED · CEIL-TENS-M · ELIG-MIX · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-STEADY 19 indexed
- MID-PACK #241/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-CLOSED 0 open of 19 listed
- CEIL-TENS-M $1M–$20M
- ELIG-MIX 2 eligible desks
- BOOK-FULL 19 listed / 19 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 17.235
VOL-STEADY · #241/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestSenior Community Se… · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
Hottest mega-dollar solicitation lane
Senior Community Service Employment Program sits in the hot×mega corner: 19 indexed Grants.gov rows and a mega SAM.gov ceiling ($1.0 million to $20.0 million). Both competition density and dollar capacity are elevated versus the catalog median; read open listings first, then ceiling peers.
Assistance Listing text · DOL
Part-time employment and training opportunities for low-income older adults to transition to private employment.
Civic applicant mix · government + nonprofit doors
Senior Community Service Employment Program combines government/tribal and nonprofit applicant types (2 doors). The listing is a civic funding corridor spanning public and nonprofit operators.
Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 17.235
100% of the 19 indexed listings under CFDA 17.235 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Senior Community Service Employment Program typically uses to move money. 79% of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $4.4 billion across 19 listings (avg $232.4 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 864 across 18 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 17.235, 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 17.235
None of the 19 indexed Grants.gov listings under CFDA 17.235 are open on the current extract. Reported award ceilings swing from $118,000 to $150.0 million (1268×); treat any single listing's ceiling as a local bound, not the program's typical award. 100% of listings carry the Employment, Labor and Training (ELT) funding-activity code.
- Open vs archived (indexed book)
- 0 open · 19 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $45.8 million (19 listings with a ceiling)
- Dominant Grants.gov funding-activity code
- Employment, Labor and Training (ELT)
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.
DOL · administering agency
U.S. Department of Labor
Workforce development, job training, worker protection, and employment services.
Grants.gov opportunities · CFDA 17.235
Program Year 2026 Senior Community Service Employment Program State, Territorial, and National Grantees
PY2025 Planning Instruction and Allotments for Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) National Grantees
PY2025 Planning Instruction and Allotments for Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) State and Territorial Grantees
Program Year (PY) 2024 Planning Instructions and Allotments for Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) State, Territorial, and National Grantees
Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) Optional Demonstration Grants on Sector-Based Training for Low-Income Older Adult Workers
Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) National Grants Competition for Program Year (PY) 2024
Information Technology (IT) Implementation and Support Funding for Senior Community Service Employment (SCSEP) State and Territorial Grantees for Program Year (PY) 2023
Program Year (PY) 2023 Planning Instructions and Allotments for Senior Community Service Employment Program SCSEP) State, Territorial, and National Grantees.
Program Year (PY) 2022 Information Technology (IT) Implementation and Support Funding for Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) State, Territorial, and National Grantees
Program Year (PY) 2022 Planning Instructions and Allotments for Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) State, Territorial and National Grantees
Showing 10 of the 19 most recent listings (19 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 17.235: 19 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 Labor (DOL) administers 17 Assistance Listings in this extract. Agency catalog
- Nearest peer by listed ceiling: Juvenile Justice Formula Grants (16.540). 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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