Business & Economic Development · Active
8(a) Business Development Program · SBA · Sparse NOFO · ceiling unlisted
8(a) Business Development Program (CFDA 59.061) - federal assistance administered by U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- Varies
- 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, 8(a) Business Development Program ranks #105 of 504, #2 of 13 within SBA, and #42 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 59.061 is an active Business & Economic Development program with 1 indexed Grants.gov opportunity. Of the 16 most recent listings shown here, 0 are open for application.
- Varies
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- -
- next application deadline
- $2.5 million
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 8%
- of the catalog is Business & Economic Development
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 59.061 · SBA VOL-SPARSE · #105/504
VOL-SPARSE · UPPER-Q · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-CLOSED · CEIL-MODEST · ELIG-SBIR · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-SPARSE 1 indexed
- UPPER-Q #105/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-CLOSED 0 open of 16 listed
- CEIL-MODEST ≤ $0
- ELIG-SBIR Small business
- BOOK-FULL 16 listed / 1 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 59.061
VOL-SPARSE · #105/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiest8(a) Business Devel… · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
Thin NOFO trail, ceiling not printed
Only 1 indexed Grants.gov row sit under CFDA 59.061, and SAM.gov omits a numeric award ceiling. 8(a) Business Development Program is a low-volume listing: read the individual opportunity pages before assuming a standing open desk.
Assistance Listing text · SBA
Developmental assistance for small disadvantaged businesses to compete in the mainstream economy.
Small-business applicant corridor · CFDA 59.061
8(a) Business Development Program prints a for-profit small-business applicant door on SAM.gov. Treat this CFDA as a business-facing listing unless a live NOFO narrows the set further.
Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 59.061
75% of the 16 indexed listings under CFDA 59.061 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism 8(a) Business Development Program typically uses to move money. 94% of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $204.8 million across 13 listings (avg $15.8 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 618 across 16 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 59.061, 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 59.061
None of the 16 indexed Grants.gov listings under CFDA 59.061 are open on the current extract. Reported award ceilings span $175,000–$2.5 million (14.5×), a wide solicitation range inside one CFDA. 88% of listings carry the Business and Commerce (BC) funding-activity code.
- Open vs archived (indexed book)
- 0 open · 16 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $900,000 (16 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 59.061
State Trade Expansion Program 2026
STATE TRADE EXPANSION PROGRAM (STEP)
OIT-STEP-2024-01
State Trade Expansion Program (STEP)
FY 2023 STATE TRADE EXPANSION PROGRAM (STEP) for South Dakota
State Trade Expansion Program (STEP)
FY 2022 STATE TRADE EXPANSION PROGRAM (STEP)
State Trade Expansion Program
STATE TRADE EXPANSION PROGRAM
STEP
Showing 10 of the 16 most recent listings (1 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 59.061: 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
- Filter programs by eligibility and award size before you commit to one CFDA. Eligibility finder
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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| Sources | the SAM.gov Assistance Listings and Grants.gov |