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NEA Art Works · NEA · Sparse NOFO · mid band

NEA Art Works (CFDA 45.025) - federal assistance administered by National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.

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$10K–$100K
Typical award range
1
Indexed opportunities
1
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The verdict

According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, NEA Art Works ranks #103 of 504, #2 of 6 within NEA, and #24 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 45.025 is an active Arts & Culture program with 1 indexed Grants.gov opportunity. Of the 1 most recent listings shown here, 1 is open for application.

$10K–$100K
typical award range (SAM.gov)
September 29
next application deadline
$2.5 million
largest award ceiling indexed
6%
of the catalog is Arts & Culture

NEA Art Works · lower-band quiet listing (#488/502 by ceiling)

NEA Art Works sits below most listed ceilings (3rd percentile among 502 active programs), a floor-band Assistance Listing card, not a mega solicitation.

NEA Art Works 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 Top 97% higher than 3% of 502 programs

Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling

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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2026-06-04

SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate

CFDA 45.025 · NEA VOL-SPARSE · #103/504

VOL-SPARSE · UPPER-Q · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-OPEN · CEIL-MID · ELIG-MIX · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE

  • VOL-SPARSE 1 indexed
  • UPPER-Q #103/504
  • SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
  • NOFO-OPEN 1 open of 1 listed
  • CEIL-MID $10K–$100K
  • ELIG-MIX 2 eligible desks
  • BOOK-FULL 1 listed / 1 indexed
  • LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing

Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 45.025

VOL-SPARSE · #103/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.

Engineering Grants · busiest319NEA Art Works · this listing1Plant and Animal Di… · quiet…0
Indexed Grants.gov rows · neighbourhood around NEA Art Works

Engineering Grants · busiestNEA Art Works · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole

Funding posture

Few announcements, mid-scale dollars

Mid-band ceiling ($10,000 to $100,000) with only 1 indexed Grants.gov rows for NEA Art Works. Competitive traffic is light relative to the printed award size, so deadlines on the sparse NOFO list matter more than catalog rank.

Assistance Listing text · NEA

Grants supporting specific arts projects that contribute to the health of the arts sector and communities.

Civic applicant mix · government + nonprofit doors

NEA Art Works combines government/tribal and nonprofit applicant types (2 doors). The listing is a civic funding corridor spanning public and nonprofit operators.

Nonprofit Organization State or Local Government

Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 45.025

100% of the 1 indexed listings under CFDA 45.025 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism NEA Art Works typically uses to move money. Every indexed listing requires applicant cost-sharing.

Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
$70.0 million across 1 listings (avg $70.0 million)
Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
62 across 1 listings

Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 45.025, not the 10 listings shown below; a listing missing a field is excluded from that field's total, not counted as zero.

Live NOFO cadence · CFDA 45.025

1 of 1 indexed listings under CFDA 45.025 are open (100%); this CFDA currently carries an active solicitation book. Reported award ceilings stay in a tight band ($2.5 million–$2.5 million; 1.0×). 100% of listings carry the Arts (AR) funding-activity code.

Open vs archived (indexed book)
1 open · 0 archived
Median reported award ceiling
$2.5 million (1 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.

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National Endowment for the Arts

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Grants.gov opportunities · CFDA 45.025 1 Open

Open Closes: Sep 29, 2026

Partnership Agreement Grants, FY 2027

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What to do next

CFDA 45.025: 1 indexed opportunities · 1 open on the recent slice.

  • Start with the open listing 2027NEA04PA (closes September 29, 2026) before you compare distant categories. Open listing
  • National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) administers 6 Assistance Listings in this extract. Agency catalog
  • Nearest peer by listed ceiling: Educational Exchange — Fulbright Program (19.020). 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.

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.