Transportation · Active
Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants · DOT · High-volume · mega band
Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants (CFDA 20.500) - federal assistance administered by U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $1M–$1B
- 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, Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants ranks #264 of 504, #13 of 26 within DOT, and #3 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 20.500 is an active Transportation program with 20 indexed Grants.gov opportunities. Of the 20 most recent listings shown here, 0 are open for application.
- $1M–$1B
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- -
- next application deadline
- $775.0 million
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 5%
- of the catalog is Transportation
Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants · top-third ceiling among high-volume books (#5/502)
Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants clears 497 of 502 published ceilings (99th percentile), an upper-band catalog maximum, not a promised award.
Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants vs programs with listed funding ceilings
Where this CFDA's SAM.gov award ceiling sits among active Assistance Listings with a reported ceiling
$1,000,000,000 Top 1% higher than 99% of 502 programs
Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling
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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2024-07-15
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 20.500 · DOT VOL-STEADY · #264/504
VOL-STEADY · LOWER-HALF · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-CLOSED · CEIL-BILLION · ELIG-SLG · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-STEADY 20 indexed
- LOWER-HALF #264/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-CLOSED 0 open of 20 listed
- CEIL-BILLION $1M–$1B
- ELIG-SLG State/local government
- BOOK-FULL 20 listed / 20 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 20.500
VOL-STEADY · #264/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestFederal Transit Cap… · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
Hottest mega-dollar solicitation lane
Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants sits in the hot×mega corner: 20 indexed Grants.gov rows and a mega SAM.gov ceiling ($1.0 million to $1000.0 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 new fixed guideway transit systems, extensions, and improvements to existing systems.
Public-sector applicant lane · DOT
SAM.gov lists only government/tribal applicants for Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants. This is a public-sector Assistance Listing corridor, not a general nonprofit or small-business open call.
Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 20.500
100% of the 21 indexed listings under CFDA 20.500 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants typically uses to move money. 90% of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $2.4 billion across 20 listings (avg $118.9 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 923 across 17 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 20.500, 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 20.500
None of the 21 indexed Grants.gov listings under CFDA 20.500 are open on the current extract. Reported award ceilings swing from $2.0 million to $775.0 million (388×); 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 · 21 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $6.1 million (17 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 20.500
FY2024 Pilot Program for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Planning
Pilot Program for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Planning
FY 2022 Pilot Program for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Planning
2021 Competitive Funding Opportunity: Pilot Program for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Planning
Pilot Program for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Planning
Pilot Program for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Planning
Pilot Program for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Planning
Pilot Program for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Planning
Pilot Program for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Planning
Section 5309 Bus and Bus Facilities, Ladders of Opportunity Program
Showing 10 of the 20 most recent listings (20 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 20.500: 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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