Business & Economic Development · Active
Women's Business Center Grants · SBA · Sparse NOFO · mid band
Women's Business Center Grants (CFDA 59.043) - federal assistance administered by U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $150K–$250K
- Typical award range
- 1
- Indexed opportunities
- 0
- Open now
- SBA
- Administering agency
The verdict
According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, Women's Business Center Grants ranks #104 of 504, #1 of 13 within SBA, and #37 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 59.043 is an active Business & Economic Development program with 1 indexed Grants.gov opportunity. Of the 20 most recent listings shown here, 0 are open for application.
- $150K–$250K
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- -
- next application deadline
- $2.1 million
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 8%
- of the catalog is Business & Economic Development
Women's Business Center Grants · lower-band quiet listing (#472/502 by ceiling)
Women's Business Center Grants sits below most listed ceilings (6th percentile among 502 active programs), a floor-band Assistance Listing card, not a mega solicitation.
Women's Business 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
$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 · 2026-07-11
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 59.043 · SBA VOL-SPARSE · #104/504
VOL-SPARSE · UPPER-Q · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-CLOSED · CEIL-MID · ELIG-NPO · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-SPARSE 1 indexed
- UPPER-Q #104/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-CLOSED 0 open of 20 listed
- CEIL-MID $150K–$250K
- ELIG-NPO Nonprofit
- BOOK-FULL 20 listed / 1 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 59.043
VOL-SPARSE · #104/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestWomen's Business Ce… · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
Few announcements, mid-scale dollars
Mid-band ceiling ($150,000 to $250,000) with only 1 indexed Grants.gov rows for Women's Business Center Grants. 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 · SBA
Grants for women's business centers providing business training and counseling to women entrepreneurs.
Nonprofit-only applicant desk · Business & Economic Development
The printed eligibility set for Women's Business Center Grants is nonprofit-only. Government, campus, and for-profit doors are absent from the Assistance Listing row.
Predominantly cooperative agreements (CA) · CFDA 59.043
80% of the 60 indexed listings under CFDA 59.043 are cooperative agreements (CA), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Women's Business Center Grants typically uses to move money. 92% of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $68.1 million across 34 listings (avg $2.0 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 907 across 57 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 59.043, 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 59.043
None of the 60 indexed Grants.gov listings under CFDA 59.043 are open on the current extract. Reported award ceilings swing from $50,000 to $2.1 million (42×); 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 · 60 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $150,000 (58 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 59.043
SBA WBC Modernization Initiative FY26
FY26 Women Business Center Renewal Announcement
Women's Business Center Application Readiness and Procurement Assistance
Women’s Business Center – Supporting Childcare Small Businesses Grant
Women’s Business Center – Initial Phase Grant Virgin Islands
WOMEN’S BUSINESS CENTER (WBC) - INITIAL PHASE GRANTS
OWBO 2024 WBC Initial Phase for Tennessee, Connecticut, and Idaho
OWBO 2023 Minority Serving Institutions Wave II
OWBO 2023 WBC Initial Phase for District of Columbia and Oregon
SB-OEDWB-22-002
Showing 10 of the 20 most recent listings (1 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 59.043: 1 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: Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Servic… (45.312). Compare program
SAM.gov ceilings are catalog maximums, not guaranteed awards; verify every deadline on Grants.gov before submitting.
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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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