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STEM Education Grants · NSF · High-volume · mid band

STEM Education Grants (CFDA 47.076) - federal assistance administered by National Science Foundation (NSF), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.

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$100K–$3M
Typical award range
135
Indexed opportunities
7
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The verdict

According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, STEM Education Grants ranks #17 of 504, #14 of 21 within NSF, and #24 of 44 among Science & Research 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 47.076 is an active Science & Research program with 135 indexed Grants.gov opportunities. Of the 20 most recent listings shown here, 7 are open for application.

$100K–$3M
typical award range (SAM.gov)
October 1
next application deadline
$7.5 million
largest award ceiling indexed
9%
of the catalog is Science & Research

STEM Education Grants · midpack ceiling on a busy book (#293/502)

STEM Education Grants lands midpack on published ceilings (42nd percentile; rank #293 of 502). The printed high is a catalog cap, not a guaranteed outlay.

STEM Education Grants 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 · 2026-08-06

SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate

CFDA 47.076 · NSF VOL-BUSY · #17/504

VOL-BUSY · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · NOFO-OPEN · CEIL-MILLION · ELIG-MIX · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE

  • VOL-BUSY 135 indexed
  • TOP-DECILE #17/504
  • NEAR-PEER Alcohol Research Cent… · 93.273
  • NOFO-OPEN 7 open of 20 listed
  • CEIL-MILLION $100K–$3M
  • ELIG-MIX 2 eligible desks
  • BOOK-FULL 20 listed / 135 indexed
  • LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing

Nearest Grants.gov-volume peer outside Science & Research: Alcohol Research Center Grants (CFDA 93.273) (±11 indexed rows)

Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 47.076

VOL-BUSY · #17/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±11 row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.

Engineering Grants · busiest319Alcohol Research Ce… · near146STEM Education Gran… · this …135Research on Healthc… · near118Heart and Vascular… · near111Oral Health Prevent… · near107Plant and Animal Di… · quiet…0
Indexed Grants.gov rows · neighbourhood around STEM Education Grants

Engineering Grants · busiestAlcohol Research Ce… · nearSTEM Education Gran… · this listingResearch on Healthc… · nearHeart and Vascular… · nearOral Health Prevent… · nearPlant 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 (135 indexed rows) under CFDA 47.076. STEM Education Grants is one of the busier mid-scale corridors in the indexed set; open rate on the recent slice is 35%.

Assistance Listing text · NSF

Grants to improve STEM education for all students from K-12 through graduate levels.

Campus–civic applicant bridge · 2 doors

STEM Education Grants bridges educational institutions with civic applicant types (2 doors: Educational Institution, Nonprofit Organization). Expect campus and public/nonprofit operators in the same printed set.

Educational Institution Nonprofit Organization

Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 47.076

93% of the 112 indexed listings under CFDA 47.076 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism STEM Education Grants typically uses to move money. 13% of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.

Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
$3.0 billion across 111 listings (avg $26.9 million)
Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
3,909 across 101 listings

Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 47.076, not the 10 listings shown below; a listing missing a field is excluded from that field's total, not counted as zero.

Mostly archived listings · CFDA 47.076

Only 7 of 112 indexed listings under CFDA 47.076 are open (6%); the book is mostly archived. Reported award ceilings swing from $200,000 to $15.0 million (75×); treat any single listing's ceiling as a local bound, not the program's typical award. 100% of listings carry the Science and Technology / R&D (ST) funding-activity code.

Open vs archived (indexed book)
7 open · 105 archived
Median reported award ceiling
$3.3 million (70 listings with a ceiling)
Dominant Grants.gov funding-activity code
Science and Technology / R&D (ST)

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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Grants.gov opportunities · CFDA 47.076 7 Open

Open Closes: Apr 5, 2027

Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity Education Innovation and Scholarship for Service (CyberAI SFS)

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Open Closes: Mar 25, 2027

Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Program

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Open Closes: Mar 2, 2027

NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Program

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Open Closes: Dec 4, 2026

Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology

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Open Closes: Nov 20, 2026

Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation

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Open Closes: Oct 1, 2026

Advanced Technological Education

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Open Closes: Oct 1, 2026

EDU Core Research

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Closed Closes: Sep 1, 2026

Tribal Colleges and Universities Program

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Closed Closes: Aug 25, 2026

Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program

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Closed

NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Program

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Showing 10 of the 20 most recent listings (135 indexed).

What to do next

CFDA 47.076: 135 indexed opportunities · 7 open on the recent slice.

  • Start with the open listing 26-503 (closes October 1, 2026) before you compare distant categories. Open listing
  • National Science Foundation (NSF) administers 21 Assistance Listings in this extract. Agency catalog
  • Nearest peer by listed ceiling: Promotion of the Arts — Partnership Agreements (45.025). Compare program

SAM.gov ceilings are catalog maximums, not guaranteed awards; verify every deadline on Grants.gov before submitting.

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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.