Arts & Culture · Active
Challenge America · NEA · High-volume · modest band
Challenge America (CFDA 45.024) - federal assistance administered by National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $10K–$10K
- Typical award range
- 20
- Indexed opportunities
- 0
- Open now
- NEA
- Administering agency
The verdict
According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, Challenge America ranks #279 of 504, #4 of 6 within NEA, and #27 of 28 among Arts & Culture 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 45.024 is an active Arts & Culture program with 20 indexed Grants.gov opportunities. Of the 20 most recent listings shown here, 0 are open for application.
- $10K–$10K
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- -
- next application deadline
- $1.1 million
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 6%
- of the catalog is Arts & Culture
Challenge America · floor-band ceiling on a busy book (#498/502)
Challenge America sits below most listed ceilings (1st percentile among 502 active programs), a floor-band Assistance Listing card, not a mega solicitation.
Challenge America 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 Top 99% higher than 1% of 502 programs
Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling
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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2026-05-27
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 45.024 · NEA VOL-STEADY · #279/504
VOL-STEADY · LOWER-HALF · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-CLOSED · CEIL-MODEST · ELIG-NPO · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-STEADY 20 indexed
- LOWER-HALF #279/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-CLOSED 0 open of 20 listed
- CEIL-MODEST ≤ $10K
- ELIG-NPO Nonprofit
- BOOK-FULL 20 listed / 20 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 45.024
VOL-STEADY · #279/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestChallenge America · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
High NOFO volume inside modest award sizes
Challenge America is a high-throughput CFDA (20 indexed opportunities) with only a modest SAM.gov range ($10,000 to $10,000). Many doors, smaller tickets: eligibility fit and close dates dominate over ceiling comparisons.
Assistance Listing text · NEA
Fast-track grants for small and mid-sized arts organizations reaching underserved populations.
Nonprofit-only applicant desk · Arts & Culture
The printed eligibility set for Challenge America is nonprofit-only. Government, campus, and for-profit doors are absent from the Assistance Listing row.
Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 45.024
74% of the 234 indexed listings under CFDA 45.024 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Challenge America typically uses to move money. 67% of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $295.5 million across 26 listings (avg $11.4 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 11,451 across 48 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 45.024, 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 45.024
None of the 234 indexed Grants.gov listings under CFDA 45.024 are open on the current extract. Reported award ceilings swing from $8,000 to $5.0 million (625×); treat any single listing's ceiling as a local bound, not the program's typical award. 100% of listings carry the Arts (AR) funding-activity code.
- Open vs archived (indexed book)
- 0 open · 234 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $100,000 (233 listings with a ceiling)
- Dominant Grants.gov funding-activity code
- Arts (AR)
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.
NEA · administering agency
National Endowment for the Arts
Grants to arts organizations, artists, and communities for arts access and education.
Grants.gov opportunities · CFDA 45.024
NEA National Heritage Fellowships Awards Program, FY 2027
NEA Grants for Arts Projects 2, FY 2027
NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert and Related Events, FY 2027
NEA Research Grants in the Arts, FY 2027
NEA Research Labs, FY 2027
NEA Grants for Arts Projects 1, FY 2027
Mayors' Institute on City Design (MICD), FY 2026
NEA Grants for Arts Projects 2, FY 2026
Celebrating America250: Arts Projects Honoring the National Garden of American Heroes
NEA Research Labs, FY 2026
Showing 10 of the 20 most recent listings (20 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 45.024: 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
- National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) administers 6 Assistance Listings in this extract. Agency catalog
- Nearest peer by listed ceiling: Federal Pell Grant Program (84.063). 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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