Transportation · Active
Assistance for Local Transportation Systems · DOT · High-volume · mid band
Assistance for Local Transportation Systems (CFDA 20.703) - federal assistance administered by U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $100K–$3M
- 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, Assistance for Local Transportation Systems ranks #274 of 504, #23 of 26 within DOT, and #26 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 20.703 is an active Transportation program with 20 indexed Grants.gov opportunities. Of the 20 most recent listings shown here, 0 are open for application.
- $100K–$3M
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- -
- next application deadline
- $2.0 million
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 5%
- of the catalog is Transportation
Assistance for Local Transportation Systems · midpack ceiling on a busy book (#293/502)
Assistance for Local Transportation Systems lands midpack on published ceilings (42nd percentile; rank #293 of 502). The printed high is a catalog cap, not a guaranteed outlay.
Assistance for Local Transportation Systems vs programs with listed funding ceilings
Where this CFDA's SAM.gov award ceiling sits among active Assistance Listings with a reported ceiling
$3,000,000 Top 58% higher than 42% of 502 programs
Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling
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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2025-06-25
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 20.703 · DOT VOL-STEADY · #274/504
VOL-STEADY · LOWER-HALF · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-CLOSED · CEIL-MILLION · ELIG-SLG · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-STEADY 20 indexed
- LOWER-HALF #274/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-CLOSED 0 open of 20 listed
- CEIL-MILLION $100K–$3M
- ELIG-SLG State/local government
- BOOK-FULL 20 listed / 20 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 20.703
VOL-STEADY · #274/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestAssistance for Loca… · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
High-traffic mid-ceiling grant corridor
Mid-band funding ($100,000 to $3.0 million) with a hot opportunity book (20 indexed rows) under CFDA 20.703. Assistance for Local Transportation Systems is one of the busier mid-scale corridors in the indexed set; open rate on the recent slice is 0%.
Assistance Listing text · DOT
Grants for transportation planning, development, and technical assistance in smaller communities.
Public-sector applicant lane · DOT
SAM.gov lists only government/tribal applicants for Assistance for Local Transportation Systems. This is a public-sector Assistance Listing corridor, not a general nonprofit or small-business open call.
Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 20.703
100% of the 82 indexed listings under CFDA 20.703 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Assistance for Local Transportation Systems typically uses to move money. 32% of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $404.8 million across 76 listings (avg $5.3 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 1,107 across 73 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 20.703, 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 20.703
None of the 82 indexed Grants.gov listings under CFDA 20.703 are open on the current extract. Reported award ceilings swing from $20,000 to $125.0 million (6250×); treat any single listing's ceiling as a local bound, not the program's typical award. Listings span 3 funding-activity codes; the plurality is Transportation (T, 67%).
- Open vs archived (indexed book)
- 0 open · 82 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $1.0 million (73 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 20.703
FY 2025 HMEP Grant Program States and Territories
FY 2025 Assistance for Local Emergency Response Training (ALERT) Grant
FY 2025 Supplemental Public Sector Training Grant (SPST)
FY 2025 Community Safety Grant (CSG)
FY 2025 Hazardous Materials Instructor Training Grant
FY 2025 HMEP Planning and Training Grant for Tribes
FY 2024 Assistance for Local Emergency Response Training (ALERT) Grant
FY 2024 Hazardous Material Instructor Training (HMIT) Grant
FY 2024 Community Safety Grants (CSG)
FY 2024 Supplemental Public Sector Training Grant
Showing 10 of the 20 most recent listings (20 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 20.703: 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: Workforce Data Quality Initiative (17.802). 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 |