Business & Economic Development · Active
Small Business Development Center Grants · SBA · High-volume · mega band
Small Business Development Center Grants (CFDA 59.037) - federal assistance administered by U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $500K–$5M
- Typical award range
- 20
- Indexed opportunities
- 0
- Open now
- SBA
- Administering agency
The verdict
According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, Small Business Development Center Grants ranks #307 of 504, #5 of 13 within SBA, and #18 of 42 among Business & Economic Development 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 59.037 is an active Business & Economic Development program with 20 indexed Grants.gov opportunities. Of the 20 most recent listings shown here, 0 are open for application.
- $500K–$5M
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- -
- next application deadline
- $8.4 million
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 8%
- of the catalog is Business & Economic Development
Small Business Development Center Grants · midpack ceiling on a busy book (#226/502)
Small Business Development Center Grants lands midpack on published ceilings (55th percentile; rank #226 of 502). The printed high is a catalog cap, not a guaranteed outlay.
Small Business Development Center Grants vs programs with listed funding ceilings
Where this CFDA's SAM.gov award ceiling sits among active Assistance Listings with a reported ceiling
$5,000,000 Top 45% higher than 55% of 502 programs
Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling
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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2026-04-21
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 59.037 · SBA VOL-STEADY · #307/504
VOL-STEADY · LOWER-HALF · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-CLOSED · CEIL-MILLION · ELIG-MIX · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-STEADY 20 indexed
- LOWER-HALF #307/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-CLOSED 0 open of 20 listed
- CEIL-MILLION $500K–$5M
- ELIG-MIX 2 eligible desks
- BOOK-FULL 20 listed / 20 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 59.037
VOL-STEADY · #307/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestSmall Business Deve… · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
Hottest mega-dollar solicitation lane
Small Business Development Center Grants sits in the hot×mega corner: 20 indexed Grants.gov rows and a mega SAM.gov ceiling ($500,000 to $5.0 million). Both competition density and dollar capacity are elevated versus the catalog median; read open listings first, then ceiling peers.
Assistance Listing text · SBA
Grants to host organizations providing business counseling, training, and technical assistance to small businesses.
Campus–civic applicant bridge · 2 doors
Small Business Development Center 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.
Predominantly cooperative agreements (CA) · CFDA 59.037
94% of the 71 indexed listings under CFDA 59.037 are cooperative agreements (CA), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Small Business Development Center Grants typically uses to move money. 65% of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $3.4 billion across 65 listings (avg $52.1 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 1,901 across 71 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 59.037, 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 59.037
None of the 71 indexed Grants.gov listings under CFDA 59.037 are open on the current extract. Reported award ceilings swing from $20,000 to $65.0 million (3250×); treat any single listing's ceiling as a local bound, not the program's typical award. 100% of listings carry the Business and Commerce (BC) funding-activity code.
- Open vs archived (indexed book)
- 0 open · 71 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $1.5 million (69 listings with a ceiling)
- Dominant Grants.gov funding-activity code
- Business and Commerce (BC)
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.
SBA · administering agency
U.S. Small Business Administration
Small business development, disaster loans, and entrepreneurship programs.
Grants.gov opportunities · CFDA 59.037
CY 2025 Small Business Development Center Program
2025 NOFO for The Territory of American Samoa
OSBDC-2024-02
FY 2024 SBDC Program
OSBDC Funding Opportunity
SBDC in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI)
OSBDC Funding Opportunity
OSBDC Funding Opportunity for the State of Louisiana
OSBDC Funding Opportunity
Small Business Development Centers
Showing 10 of the 20 most recent listings (20 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 59.037: 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
- U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) administers 13 Assistance Listings in this extract. Agency catalog
- Nearest peer by listed ceiling: VA Homeless Veterans Outreach (64.024). 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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