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Airport Improvement Program · DOT · Active NOFO · mega band

Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.106) - federal assistance administered by U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.

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$500K–$100M
Typical award range
9
Indexed opportunities
0
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DOT
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The verdict

According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, Airport Improvement Program ranks #256 of 504, #5 of 26 within DOT, and #6 of 26 among Transportation 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 20.106 is an active Transportation program with 9 indexed Grants.gov opportunities. Of the 9 most recent listings shown here, 0 are open for application.

$500K–$100M
typical award range (SAM.gov)
-
next application deadline
$970.0 million
largest award ceiling indexed
5%
of the catalog is Transportation

Airport Improvement Program · upper-band NOFO desk (#26/502 by ceiling)

Airport Improvement Program clears 476 of 502 published ceilings (95th percentile), an upper-band catalog maximum, not a promised award.

Airport Improvement Program vs programs with listed funding ceilings

Where this CFDA's SAM.gov award ceiling sits among active Assistance Listings with a reported ceiling

$100,000,000 Top 5% higher than 95% of 502 programs

Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling

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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2024-08-27

SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate

CFDA 20.106 · DOT VOL-STEADY · #256/504

VOL-STEADY · LOWER-HALF · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-CLOSED · CEIL-TENS-M · ELIG-SLG · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE

  • VOL-STEADY 9 indexed
  • LOWER-HALF #256/504
  • SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
  • NOFO-CLOSED 0 open of 9 listed
  • CEIL-TENS-M $500K–$100M
  • ELIG-SLG State/local government
  • BOOK-FULL 9 listed / 9 indexed
  • LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing

Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 20.106

VOL-STEADY · #256/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.

Engineering Grants · busiest319Airport Improvement… · this …9Plant and Animal Di… · quiet…0
Indexed Grants.gov rows · neighbourhood around Airport Improvement Program

Engineering Grants · busiestAirport Improvement… · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole

Funding posture

Active mega-ceiling competition board

Airport Improvement Program combines mega-scale SAM.gov dollars ($500,000 to $100.0 million) with an active opportunity trail (9 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 · DOT

Grants to public-use airports for capital improvements to enhance safety, capacity, and security.

Public-sector applicant lane · DOT

SAM.gov lists only government/tribal applicants for Airport Improvement Program. This is a public-sector Assistance Listing corridor, not a general nonprofit or small-business open call.

State or Local Government

Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 20.106

100% of the 9 indexed listings under CFDA 20.106 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Airport Improvement Program typically uses to move money. 67% of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.

Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
$5.5 billion across 9 listings (avg $615.4 million)
Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
50 across 1 listings

Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 20.106, 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 20.106

None of the 9 indexed Grants.gov listings under CFDA 20.106 are open on the current extract. Reported award ceilings swing from $20.0 million to $970.0 million (49×); treat any single listing's ceiling as a local bound, not the program's typical award. 100% of listings carry the Transportation (T) funding-activity code.

Open vs archived (indexed book)
0 open · 9 archived
Median reported award ceiling
$50.0 million (9 listings with a ceiling)
Dominant Grants.gov funding-activity code
Transportation (T)

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.

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Grants.gov opportunities · CFDA 20.106

Closed Closes: Sep 18, 2024

FY 2025 Notice of Funding Opportunity: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) FAA Contract Tower (FCT) Competitive Grant Program

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Closed Closes: Jul 31, 2024

FY 2025 Notice of Funding Opportunity: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Airport Terminal Program (ATP) Grants

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Closed Closes: May 2, 2024

FY 2023 Competitive Funding Opportunity: Airport Improvement Program Supplemental Discretionary Grants

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Closed Closes: Dec 1, 2023

FY 2024 Notice of Funding Opportunity: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) FAA Contract Tower (FCT) Competitive Grant Program

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Closed Closes: Oct 16, 2023

FY 2024 Notice of Funding Opportunity: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Airport Terminal Program (ATP) Grants

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Closed Closes: Jul 14, 2023

FY 2023 Competitive Funding Opportunity: Airport Improvement Program Discretionary Grants

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Closed Closes: Jan 31, 2023

FY 2022 Competitive Funding Opportunity: Airport Improvement Program Supplemental Discretionary Grants

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Closed Closes: Dec 6, 2022

FY 2023 Notice of Funding Opportunity: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law FAA Contract Tower (FCT) Competitive Grant Program

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Closed Closes: Jun 30, 2022

FY 2022 Competitive Funding Opportunity: Airport Improvement Program Discretionary Grants

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What to do next

CFDA 20.106: 9 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 Transportation (DOT) administers 26 Assistance Listings in this extract. Agency catalog
  • Nearest peer by listed ceiling: Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers (14.871). Compare program

SAM.gov ceilings are catalog maximums, not guaranteed awards; verify every deadline on Grants.gov before submitting.

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Data sourced from the SAM.gov Assistance Listings and Grants.gov. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainGrants

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.