Transportation · Active

National Priority Safety Programs · DOT · Sparse NOFO · mega band

National Priority Safety Programs (CFDA 20.614) - federal assistance administered by U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.

$100K–$10M
Typical award range
1
Indexed opportunities
1
Open now
DOT
Administering agency
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The verdict

According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, National Priority Safety Programs ranks #100 of 504, #4 of 26 within DOT, and #18 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 20.614 is an active Transportation program with 1 indexed Grants.gov opportunity. Of the 20 most recent listings shown here, 1 is open for application.

$100K–$10M
typical award range (SAM.gov)
September 1
next application deadline
$35.0 million
largest award ceiling indexed
5%
of the catalog is Transportation

National Priority Safety Programs · upper-band quiet listing (#132/502 by ceiling)

National Priority Safety Programs clears 370 of 502 published ceilings (74th percentile), an upper-band catalog maximum, not a promised award.

National Priority Safety Programs vs programs with listed funding ceilings

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

$10,000,000 Top 26% higher than 74% of 502 programs

Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling

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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2026-08-07

SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate

CFDA 20.614 · DOT VOL-SPARSE · #100/504

VOL-SPARSE · UPPER-Q · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-OPEN · CEIL-TENS-M · ELIG-SLG · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE

  • VOL-SPARSE 1 indexed
  • UPPER-Q #100/504
  • SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
  • NOFO-OPEN 1 open of 20 listed
  • CEIL-TENS-M $100K–$10M
  • ELIG-SLG State/local government
  • BOOK-FULL 20 listed / 1 indexed
  • LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing

Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 20.614

VOL-SPARSE · #100/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.

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Indexed Grants.gov rows · neighbourhood around National Priority Safety Programs

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Funding posture

Rare NOFOs under a mega ceiling

National Priority Safety Programs pairs a mega SAM.gov ceiling ($100,000 to $10.0 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

Incentive grants to states implementing effective programs to reduce drunk driving and other traffic safety issues.

Public-sector applicant lane · DOT

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

State or Local Government

Predominantly cooperative agreements (CA) · CFDA 20.614

85% of the 75 indexed listings under CFDA 20.614 are cooperative agreements (CA), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism National Priority Safety Programs typically uses to move money. 8% of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.

Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
$454.4 million across 53 listings (avg $8.6 million)
Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
324 across 61 listings

Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 20.614, 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 20.614

Only 1 of 75 indexed listings under CFDA 20.614 are open (1%); the book is mostly archived. Reported award ceilings swing from $65,000 to $35.0 million (538×); treat any single listing's ceiling as a local bound, not the program's typical award. Listings span 11 funding-activity codes; the plurality is Transportation (T, 41%).

Open vs archived (indexed book)
1 open · 74 archived
Median reported award ceiling
$588,000 (72 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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What to do next

CFDA 20.614: 1 indexed opportunities · 1 open on the recent slice.

  • Start with the open listing NHTSA-693JJ926R000024-FY26 (closes September 1, 2027) 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: USAID International Development Grants (19.040). Compare program

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

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.