Transportation · Active
Highway Planning and Construction · DOT · Sparse NOFO · mega band
Highway Planning and Construction (CFDA 20.205) - federal assistance administered by U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $1M–$500M
- Typical award range
- 1
- Indexed opportunities
- 0
- Open now
- DOT
- Administering agency
The verdict
According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, Highway Planning and Construction ranks #98 of 504, #2 of 26 within DOT, and #4 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 20.205 is an active Transportation program with 1 indexed Grants.gov opportunity. Of the 20 most recent listings shown here, 0 are open for application.
- $1M–$500M
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- -
- next application deadline
- $3.0 billion
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 5%
- of the catalog is Transportation
Highway Planning and Construction · upper-band quiet listing (#11/502 by ceiling)
Highway Planning and Construction clears 491 of 502 published ceilings (98th percentile), an upper-band catalog maximum, not a promised award.
Highway Planning and Construction vs programs with listed funding ceilings
Where this CFDA's SAM.gov award ceiling sits among active Assistance Listings with a reported ceiling
$500,000,000 Top 2% higher than 98% 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 20.205 · DOT VOL-SPARSE · #98/504
VOL-SPARSE · UPPER-Q · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-CLOSED · CEIL-TENS-M · ELIG-SLG · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-SPARSE 1 indexed
- UPPER-Q #98/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-CLOSED 0 open of 20 listed
- CEIL-TENS-M $1M–$500M
- ELIG-SLG State/local government
- BOOK-FULL 20 listed / 1 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 20.205
VOL-SPARSE · #98/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestHighway Planning an… · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
Rare NOFOs under a mega ceiling
Highway Planning and Construction pairs a mega SAM.gov ceiling ($1.0 million to $500.0 million) with a sparse Grants.gov trail (1 indexed row). Large paper capacity, few public solicitations: watch the open flags on those scarce listings rather than expecting a steady NOFO cadence.
Assistance Listing text · DOT
Formula grants to states for highway construction, planning, and research under the Federal-Aid Highway Program.
Public-sector applicant lane · DOT
SAM.gov lists only government/tribal applicants for Highway Planning and Construction. This is a public-sector Assistance Listing corridor, not a general nonprofit or small-business open call.
Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 20.205
51% of the 75 indexed listings under CFDA 20.205 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Highway Planning and Construction typically uses to move money. 71% of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $28.9 billion across 65 listings (avg $444.2 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 1,821 across 56 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 20.205, 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 20.205
None of the 75 indexed Grants.gov listings under CFDA 20.205 are open on the current extract. Reported award ceilings swing from $90,000 to $10.0 billion (111111×); treat any single listing's ceiling as a local bound, not the program's typical award. 79% of listings carry the Transportation (T) funding-activity code.
- Open vs archived (indexed book)
- 0 open · 75 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $5.0 million (62 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.
DOT · administering agency
U.S. Department of Transportation
Transportation infrastructure, safety, planning, and transit programs for states and localities.
Grants.gov opportunities · CFDA 20.205
Recovery Act - Ponjo Road Overlay Project
Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 through FY 2026 Bridge Investment Program, Planning and Bridge Project Grants
Fiscal Year (FY) 2023-2024 National Scenic Byways Program
2026 Tribal Transportation Program Safety Fund
Competitive Highway Bridge Program
Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 – 2026 Bridge Investment Program, Large Bridge Project Grants
Fiscal Years 2024-2026 Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-Saving Transportation (PROTECT) Program
2025 Tribal Transportation Program Safety Fund
Low Carbon Transportation Materials Program
FY 2024-2026 Nationally Significant Federal Lands and Tribal Projects Program
Showing 10 of the 20 most recent listings (1 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 20.205: 1 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: Unemployment Insurance (17.225). 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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