Transportation · Active

Highway Safety Improvement Program · DOT · High-volume · mega band

Highway Safety Improvement Program (CFDA 20.930) - federal assistance administered by U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.

$1M–$100M
Typical award range
16
Indexed opportunities
0
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, Highway Safety Improvement Program ranks #276 of 504, #25 of 26 within DOT, and #10 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 20.930 is an active Transportation program with 16 indexed Grants.gov opportunities. Of the 16 most recent listings shown here, 0 are open for application.

$1M–$100M
typical award range (SAM.gov)
-
next application deadline
$18.0 million
largest award ceiling indexed
5%
of the catalog is Transportation

Highway Safety Improvement Program · top-third ceiling among high-volume books (#26/502)

Highway Safety Improvement Program clears 476 of 502 published ceilings (95th percentile), an upper-band catalog maximum, not a promised award.

Highway Safety Improvement Program vs programs with listed funding ceilings

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

$100,000,000 Top 5% higher than 95% of 502 programs

Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling

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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2026-04-27

SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate

CFDA 20.930 · DOT VOL-STEADY · #276/504

VOL-STEADY · LOWER-HALF · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-CLOSED · CEIL-TENS-M · ELIG-SLG · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE

  • VOL-STEADY 16 indexed
  • LOWER-HALF #276/504
  • SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
  • NOFO-CLOSED 0 open of 16 listed
  • CEIL-TENS-M $1M–$100M
  • ELIG-SLG State/local government
  • BOOK-FULL 16 listed / 16 indexed
  • LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing

Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 20.930

VOL-STEADY · #276/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.

Engineering Grants · busiest319Highway Safety Impr… · this …16Plant and Animal Di… · quiet…0
Indexed Grants.gov rows · neighbourhood around Highway Safety Improvement Program

Engineering Grants · busiestHighway Safety Impr… · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole

Funding posture

Hottest mega-dollar solicitation lane

Highway Safety Improvement Program sits in the hot×mega corner: 16 indexed Grants.gov rows and a mega SAM.gov ceiling ($1.0 million to $100.0 million). Both competition density and dollar capacity are elevated versus the catalog median; read open listings first, then ceiling peers.

Assistance Listing text · DOT

Formula grants for safety improvements on all public roads to reduce traffic fatalities and serious injuries.

Public-sector applicant lane · DOT

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

State or Local Government

Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 20.930

100% of the 16 indexed listings under CFDA 20.930 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Highway Safety Improvement Program typically uses to move money. None of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.

Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
$179.5 million across 16 listings (avg $11.2 million)
Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
610 across 16 listings

Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 20.930, 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 20.930

None of the 16 indexed Grants.gov listings under CFDA 20.930 are open on the current extract. Reported award ceilings span $5.0 million–$18.0 million (3.6×), a wide solicitation range inside one CFDA. 100% of listings carry the Transportation (T) funding-activity code.

Open vs archived (indexed book)
0 open · 16 archived
Median reported award ceiling
$11.5 million (12 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 20.930: 16 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: Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers (14.871). 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.