Education · Active
Disability Employment Initiative · DOL · High-volume · mega band
Disability Employment Initiative (CFDA 17.261) - federal assistance administered by U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $1M–$5M
- Typical award range
- 20
- Indexed opportunities
- 0
- Open now
- DOL
- Administering agency
The verdict
According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, Disability Employment Initiative ranks #245 of 504, #10 of 17 within DOL, and #34 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 17.261 is an active Education program with 20 indexed Grants.gov opportunities. Of the 20 most recent listings shown here, 0 are open for application.
- $1M–$5M
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- -
- next application deadline
- $5.8 million
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 18%
- of the catalog is Education
Disability Employment Initiative · midpack ceiling on a busy book (#226/502)
Disability Employment Initiative lands midpack on published ceilings (55th percentile; rank #226 of 502). The printed high is a catalog cap, not a guaranteed outlay.
Disability Employment Initiative vs programs with listed funding ceilings
Where this CFDA's SAM.gov award ceiling sits among active Assistance Listings with a reported ceiling
$5,000,000 Top 45% higher than 55% of 502 programs
Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling
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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2025-04-24
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 17.261 · DOL VOL-STEADY · #245/504
VOL-STEADY · MID-PACK · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-CLOSED · CEIL-MILLION · ELIG-SLG · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-STEADY 20 indexed
- MID-PACK #245/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-CLOSED 0 open of 20 listed
- CEIL-MILLION $1M–$5M
- ELIG-SLG State/local government
- BOOK-FULL 20 listed / 20 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 17.261
VOL-STEADY · #245/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestDisability Employme… · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
Hottest mega-dollar solicitation lane
Disability Employment Initiative sits in the hot×mega corner: 20 indexed Grants.gov rows and a mega SAM.gov ceiling ($1.0 million to $5.0 million). Both competition density and dollar capacity are elevated versus the catalog median; read open listings first, then ceiling peers.
Assistance Listing text · DOL
Grants to improve employment outcomes for youth and adults with disabilities through workforce systems.
Public-sector applicant lane · DOL
SAM.gov lists only government/tribal applicants for Disability Employment Initiative. This is a public-sector Assistance Listing corridor, not a general nonprofit or small-business open call.
Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 17.261
100% of the 29 indexed listings under CFDA 17.261 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Disability Employment Initiative typically uses to move money. None of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $532.6 million across 29 listings (avg $18.4 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 237 across 26 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 17.261, 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 17.261
None of the 29 indexed Grants.gov listings under CFDA 17.261 are open on the current extract. Reported award ceilings swing from $75,000 to $10.0 million (133×); 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 · 29 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $2.7 million (29 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 17.261
Workforce Data Quality Initiative - WDQI Round 10
Strengthening Community Colleges Training Grants (Round 5)
Strengthening Community Colleges Training Grants
Workforce Data Quality Initiative – WDQI Round 9
Strengthening Community Colleges Training Grants
Workforce Data Quality Initiative – WDQI Round 8
Workforce Pathways for Youth grant program
Strengthening Community Colleges Training Grants
Workforce Data Quality Initiative – WDQI Round VII
Workforce Data Quality Initiative – WDQI Round VI
Showing 10 of the 20 most recent listings (20 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 17.261: 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 Labor (DOL) administers 17 Assistance Listings in this extract. Agency catalog
- Nearest peer by listed ceiling: Registered Apprenticeship (17.720). 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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| Sources | the SAM.gov Assistance Listings and Grants.gov |