Education · Active
Higher Education Institutional Aid · ED · High-volume · mega band
Higher Education Institutional Aid (CFDA 84.031) - federal assistance administered by U.S. Department of Education (ED), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $500K–$5M
- Typical award range
- 20
- Indexed opportunities
- 0
- Open now
- ED
- Administering agency
The verdict
According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, Higher Education Institutional Aid ranks #357 of 504, #9 of 77 within ED, and #40 of 93 among Education 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 84.031 is an active Education 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
- $3.0 million
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 18%
- of the catalog is Education
Higher Education Institutional Aid · midpack ceiling on a busy book (#226/502)
Higher Education Institutional Aid lands midpack on published ceilings (55th percentile; rank #226 of 502). The printed high is a catalog cap, not a guaranteed outlay.
Higher Education Institutional Aid 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 · 2026-05-21
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 84.031 · ED VOL-STEADY · #357/504
VOL-STEADY · LOWER-HALF · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-CLOSED · CEIL-MILLION · ELIG-EDU · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-STEADY 20 indexed
- LOWER-HALF #357/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-CLOSED 0 open of 20 listed
- CEIL-MILLION $500K–$5M
- ELIG-EDU Educational institution
- BOOK-FULL 20 listed / 20 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 84.031
VOL-STEADY · #357/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestHigher Education In… · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
Hottest mega-dollar solicitation lane
Higher Education Institutional Aid 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 · ED
Formula grants to strengthen academic quality and financial stability of eligible colleges serving underserved students.
Campus applicant desk · Education
Educational institutions are the sole printed applicant type for CFDA 84.031. Higher Education Institutional Aid reads as a campus Assistance Listing, not a civic or commercial open desk.
Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 84.031
99% of the 79 indexed listings under CFDA 84.031 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Higher Education Institutional Aid typically uses to move money. 18% of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $1.7 billion across 77 listings (avg $22.0 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 2,591 across 76 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 84.031, 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 84.031
None of the 79 indexed Grants.gov listings under CFDA 84.031 are open on the current extract. Reported award ceilings span $250,000–$3.0 million (12.0×), a wide solicitation range inside one CFDA. 100% of listings carry the Education (ED) funding-activity code.
- Open vs archived (indexed book)
- 0 open · 79 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $600,000 (62 listings with a ceiling)
- Dominant Grants.gov funding-activity code
- Education (ED)
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.
ED · administering agency
U.S. Department of Education
Federal education programs, student financial aid, and grants to states for K-12 and higher education.
Grants.gov opportunities · CFDA 84.031
Strengthening Institutions Program FY 2026 Competition
Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE): Higher Education Programs (HEP): Institutional Service - Alaska Native-Serving Institutions Program (Part A), Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.031N
Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE): Higher Education Programs (HEP): Institutional Service: Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions (ANNH) Program (Part A), Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.031W
Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE): Higher Education Programs (HEP): Native American-Serving Nontribal Institutions (NASNTI) Program, Assistance Listing Number 84.031X
Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE): Higher Education Programs (HEP): Institutional Service: Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISI) Program, Assistance Listing Number 84.031L
Applications for New Awards; Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program
Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE): Institutional Service: Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans (PPOHA) Program, Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.031M
Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE): Higher Education Programs (HEP): Institutional Service - Alaska Native-Serving Institutions Program (Part A), Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.031N
Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE): Higher Education Programs (HEP): Institutional Service: Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions (ANNH) Program (Part A, Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.031W
Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE): Higher Education Programs (HEP): Institutional Service: Alaska Native-Serving Institutions Program Part A, Assistance Listing Number 84.031N
Showing 10 of the 20 most recent listings (20 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 84.031: 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. Department of Education (ED) administers 77 Assistance Listings in this extract. Agency catalog
- Nearest peer by listed ceiling: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Resear… (81.127). 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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