Arts & Culture · Active
NEH Collaborative Research · NEH · High-volume · mid band
NEH Collaborative Research (CFDA 45.160) - federal assistance administered by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $25K–$250K
- Typical award range
- 20
- Indexed opportunities
- 0
- Open now
- NEH
- Administering agency
The verdict
According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, NEH Collaborative Research ranks #287 of 504, #6 of 11 within NEH, and #16 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 45.160 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.
- $25K–$250K
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- -
- next application deadline
- $60,000
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 6%
- of the catalog is Arts & Culture
NEH Collaborative Research · floor-band ceiling on a busy book (#472/502)
NEH Collaborative Research sits below most listed ceilings (6th percentile among 502 active programs), a floor-band Assistance Listing card, not a mega solicitation.
NEH Collaborative Research vs programs with listed funding ceilings
Where this CFDA's SAM.gov award ceiling sits among active Assistance Listings with a reported ceiling
$250,000 Top 94% higher than 6% of 502 programs
Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling
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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2026-04-01
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 45.160 · NEH VOL-STEADY · #287/504
VOL-STEADY · LOWER-HALF · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-CLOSED · CEIL-MID · ELIG-MIX · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-STEADY 20 indexed
- LOWER-HALF #287/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-CLOSED 0 open of 20 listed
- CEIL-MID $25K–$250K
- ELIG-MIX 2 eligible desks
- BOOK-FULL 20 listed / 20 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 45.160
VOL-STEADY · #287/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestNEH Collaborative R… · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
High-traffic mid-ceiling grant corridor
Mid-band funding ($25,000 to $250,000) with a hot opportunity book (20 indexed rows) under CFDA 45.160. NEH Collaborative Research is one of the busier mid-scale corridors in the indexed set; open rate on the recent slice is 0%.
Assistance Listing text · NEH
Grants for collaborative teams of scholars to advance knowledge in the humanities.
Campus–civic applicant bridge · 2 doors
NEH Collaborative Research bridges educational institutions with civic applicant types (2 doors: Educational Institution, Nonprofit Organization). Expect campus and public/nonprofit operators in the same printed set.
Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 45.160
100% of the 88 indexed listings under CFDA 45.160 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism NEH Collaborative Research typically uses to move money. None of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $38.8 million across 31 listings (avg $1.3 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 1,447 across 44 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 45.160, 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 45.160
None of the 88 indexed Grants.gov listings under CFDA 45.160 are open on the current extract. Reported award ceilings span $6,000–$60,000 (10.0×), a wide solicitation range inside one CFDA. 100% of listings carry the Humanities (HU) funding-activity code.
- Open vs archived (indexed book)
- 0 open · 88 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $50,000 (88 listings with a ceiling)
- Dominant Grants.gov funding-activity code
- Humanities (HU)
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.
NEH · administering agency
National Endowment for the Humanities
Humanities research, education, preservation, and public programming grants.
Grants.gov opportunities · CFDA 45.160
Awards for Faculty at HBCUs
Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan
Fellowships
Public Scholars
Public Scholars
Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan
Awards for Faculty
Fellowships
Summer Stipends
Dynamic Language Infrastructure – Documenting Endangered Languages Fellowships
Showing 10 of the 20 most recent listings (20 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 45.160: 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 Humanities (NEH) administers 11 Assistance Listings in this extract. Agency catalog
- Nearest peer by listed ceiling: Women's Business Center Grants (59.043). 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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