Transportation · Active
Bus and Bus Facilities Formula Grants · DOT · Sparse NOFO · mega band
Bus and Bus Facilities Formula Grants (CFDA 20.526) - federal assistance administered by U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $500K–$50M
- Typical award range
- 2
- Indexed opportunities
- 2
- Open now
- DOT
- Administering agency
The verdict
According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, Bus and Bus Facilities Formula Grants ranks #77 of 504, #1 of 26 within DOT, and #13 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 20.526 is an active Transportation program with 2 indexed Grants.gov opportunities. Of the 20 most recent listings shown here, 2 are open for application.
- $500K–$50M
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- September 21
- next application deadline
- $46.9 million
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 5%
- of the catalog is Transportation
Bus and Bus Facilities Formula Grants · upper-band quiet listing (#52/502 by ceiling)
Bus and Bus Facilities Formula Grants clears 450 of 502 published ceilings (90th percentile), an upper-band catalog maximum, not a promised award.
Bus and Bus Facilities Formula Grants vs programs with listed funding ceilings
Where this CFDA's SAM.gov award ceiling sits among active Assistance Listings with a reported ceiling
$50,000,000 Top 10% higher than 90% of 502 programs
Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling
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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2026-07-27
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 20.526 · DOT VOL-SPARSE · #77/504
VOL-SPARSE · UPPER-Q · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-OPEN · CEIL-TENS-M · ELIG-SLG · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-SPARSE 2 indexed
- UPPER-Q #77/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-OPEN 2 open of 20 listed
- CEIL-TENS-M $500K–$50M
- ELIG-SLG State/local government
- BOOK-FULL 20 listed / 2 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 20.526
VOL-SPARSE · #77/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestBus and Bus Facilit… · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
Rare NOFOs under a mega ceiling
Bus and Bus Facilities Formula Grants pairs a mega SAM.gov ceiling ($500,000 to $50.0 million) with a sparse Grants.gov trail (2 indexed rows). 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 replace, rehabilitate, and purchase buses and bus-related equipment and facilities.
Public-sector applicant lane · DOT
SAM.gov lists only government/tribal applicants for Bus and Bus Facilities Formula Grants. This is a public-sector Assistance Listing corridor, not a general nonprofit or small-business open call.
Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 20.526
100% of the 22 indexed listings under CFDA 20.526 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Bus and Bus Facilities Formula Grants typically uses to move money. Every indexed listing requires applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $9.5 billion across 22 listings (avg $429.6 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 2,120 across 22 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 20.526, not the 10 listings shown below; a listing missing a field is excluded from that field's total, not counted as zero.
Mostly archived listings · CFDA 20.526
Only 2 of 22 indexed listings under CFDA 20.526 are open (9%); the book is mostly archived. Reported award ceilings stay in a tight band ($22.6 million–$46.9 million; 2.1×). 100% of listings carry the Transportation (T) funding-activity code.
- Open vs archived (indexed book)
- 2 open · 20 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $39.8 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.
DOT · administering agency
U.S. Department of Transportation
Transportation infrastructure, safety, planning, and transit programs for states and localities.
Grants.gov opportunities · CFDA 20.526 2 Open
Fiscal Year 2026 Competitive Funding Opportunity: Buses and Bus Facilities Program
Fiscal Year 2026 Competitive Funding Opportunity: Low or No Emission Program
Fiscal Year 2025 Competitive Funding Opportunity: Low- or No-Emission Program
Fiscal Year 2025 Competitive Funding Opportunity: Buses and Bus Facilities Program
FY2024 Competitive Funding Opportunity: Low- or No-Emission Program
FY2024 Competitive Funding Opportunity: Buses and Bus Facilities Program
FY 2023 Competitive Funding Opportunity; Buses and Bus Facilities Program
FY 2023 Competitive Funding Opportunity; Low or No Emission Vehicle Program
FY 2022 Competitive Funding Opportunity; Low or No Emission Grant Program
FY 2022 Competitive Funding Opportunity: Buses and Bus Facilities Competitive Program
Showing 10 of the 20 most recent listings (2 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 20.526: 2 indexed opportunities · 2 open on the recent slice.
- Start with the open listing FTA-2026-010-TPM-BUS (closes September 21, 2026) before you compare distant categories. Open listing
- U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) administers 26 Assistance Listings in this extract. Agency catalog
- Nearest peer by listed ceiling: WIOA Dislocated Workers (17.259). 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 |