Education · Active
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act · DOL · Active NOFO · mega band
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Adult (CFDA 17.258) - federal assistance administered by U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $1M–$50M
- Typical award range
- 13
- Indexed opportunities
- 0
- Open now
- DOL
- Administering agency
The verdict
According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Adult ranks #243 of 504, #8 of 17 within DOL, and #3 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 17.258 is an active Education program with 13 indexed Grants.gov opportunities. Of the 13 most recent listings shown here, 0 are open for application.
- $1M–$50M
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- -
- next application deadline
- $163.3 million
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 18%
- of the catalog is Education
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act · upper-band NOFO desk (#52/502 by ceiling)
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act clears 450 of 502 published ceilings (90th percentile), an upper-band catalog maximum, not a promised award.
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act vs programs with listed funding ceilings
Where this CFDA's SAM.gov award ceiling sits among active Assistance Listings with a reported ceiling
$50,000,000 Top 10% higher than 90% of 502 programs
Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling
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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2026-04-29
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 17.258 · DOL VOL-STEADY · #243/504
VOL-STEADY · MID-PACK · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-CLOSED · CEIL-TENS-M · ELIG-SLG · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-STEADY 13 indexed
- MID-PACK #243/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-CLOSED 0 open of 13 listed
- CEIL-TENS-M $1M–$50M
- ELIG-SLG State/local government
- BOOK-FULL 13 listed / 13 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 17.258
VOL-STEADY · #243/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestWorkforce Innovatio… · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
Active mega-ceiling competition board
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act combines mega-scale SAM.gov dollars ($1.0 million to $50.0 million) with an active opportunity trail (13 indexed rows). The recent slice is currently closed; watch for the next NOFO drop. Volume and ceiling both clear the mid-tier bar.
Assistance Listing text · DOL
Formula grants providing training, employment, and support services to low-income adults seeking jobs.
Public-sector applicant lane · DOL
SAM.gov lists only government/tribal applicants for Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. This is a public-sector Assistance Listing corridor, not a general nonprofit or small-business open call.
Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 17.258
100% of the 13 indexed listings under CFDA 17.258 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act typically uses to move money. None of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $9.5 billion across 13 listings (avg $727.0 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 726 across 13 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 17.258, 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 17.258
None of the 13 indexed Grants.gov listings under CFDA 17.258 are open on the current extract. Reported award ceilings swing from $281,000 to $163.3 million (581×); 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 · 13 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $120.6 million (12 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 17.258
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Adult Activities Program Allotments for Program Year (PY) 2026.
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Adult Activities Program Allotments for Program Year (PY) 2025
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Adult Activities Program Allotments for Program Year (PY) 2024
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Adult Activities Program Allotments for Program Year (PY) 2023
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Adult Activities Program Allotments for Program Year (PY) 2022.
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Adult Activities Program Allotments for Program Year (PY) 2021
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Adult Activities Program Allotments for Program Year (PY) 2020
Revised Program Year 2019 Funding Levels for WIOA Title I Adult
Revised Program Year 2018 Funding Levels for WIOA Title I Adult/Dislocated Worker/Youth Activities Program Allotments; and PY 2018 Allotments for Wagner-Peyser Act Employment Services (ES) Program
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Adult Activities Program Allotments for Program Year (PY) 2019
Showing 10 of the 13 most recent listings (13 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 17.258: 13 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: Crime Victim Assistance (VOCA) (16.575). 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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