Transportation · Active
Rail Capital Assistance · DOT · High-volume · mega band
Rail Capital Assistance (CFDA 20.320) - federal assistance administered by U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $5M–$500M
- Typical award range
- 20
- Indexed opportunities
- 0
- Open now
- DOT
- Administering agency
The verdict
According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, Rail Capital Assistance ranks #262 of 504, #11 of 26 within DOT, and #5 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 20.320 is an active Transportation program with 20 indexed Grants.gov opportunities. Of the 20 most recent listings shown here, 0 are open for application.
- $5M–$500M
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- -
- next application deadline
- $11.6 million
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 5%
- of the catalog is Transportation
Rail Capital Assistance · top-third ceiling among high-volume books (#11/502)
Rail Capital Assistance clears 491 of 502 published ceilings (98th percentile), an upper-band catalog maximum, not a promised award.
Rail Capital Assistance 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 · 2023-09-05
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 20.320 · DOT VOL-STEADY · #262/504
VOL-STEADY · LOWER-HALF · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-CLOSED · CEIL-TENS-M · ELIG-SLG · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-STEADY 20 indexed
- LOWER-HALF #262/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-CLOSED 0 open of 20 listed
- CEIL-TENS-M $5M–$500M
- ELIG-SLG State/local government
- BOOK-FULL 20 listed / 20 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 20.320
VOL-STEADY · #262/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestRail Capital Assist… · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
Hottest mega-dollar solicitation lane
Rail Capital Assistance sits in the hot×mega corner: 20 indexed Grants.gov rows and a mega SAM.gov ceiling ($5.0 million to $500.0 million). Both competition density and dollar capacity are elevated versus the catalog median; read open listings first, then ceiling peers.
Assistance Listing text · DOT
Capital grants for intercity passenger rail improvements, new routes, and infrastructure rehabilitation.
Public-sector applicant lane · DOT
SAM.gov lists only government/tribal applicants for Rail Capital Assistance. This is a public-sector Assistance Listing corridor, not a general nonprofit or small-business open call.
Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 20.320
83% of the 36 indexed listings under CFDA 20.320 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Rail Capital Assistance typically uses to move money. 94% of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $43.8 million across 8 listings (avg $5.5 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 19 across 10 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 20.320, 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 20.320
None of the 36 indexed Grants.gov listings under CFDA 20.320 are open on the current extract. Reported award ceilings swing from $95,000 to $20.5 million (216×); 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 · 36 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $779,000 (36 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 20.320
FY10-23 Railroad Line Relocation and Improvement Program, Harlingen Rail Improvements Phase 1
FY 2009 Rail Line Relocation and Improvement Project - Railroad Relocation Planning, Terre Haute, IN
FY08 Elkhart Rail Line Relocation
FY10-Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority Rail Access Improvement Program
FY10 Rail Spur Extension, Greater Ouachita Parish, LA
FY12 Crossroads of American Rail Improvements
FY10 Hoquiam Horn Spur Railroad Track Improvement Project, WA
FY10 Crossroads of American Rail Improvements, Greene County, AL
FY10 Railroad-Highway Grade Crossing Mitigation,ICC
FY10 Springfield Rail Relocation, IL
Showing 10 of the 20 most recent listings (20 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 20.320: 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 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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