Education · Active
TRIO — Talent Search · ED · Active NOFO · mid band
TRIO — Talent Search (CFDA 84.044) - federal assistance administered by U.S. Department of Education (ED), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $200K–$500K
- Typical award range
- 4
- Indexed opportunities
- 0
- Open now
- ED
- Administering agency
The verdict
According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, TRIO — Talent Search ranks #359 of 504, #11 of 77 within ED, and #83 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 84.044 is an active Education program with 4 indexed Grants.gov opportunities. Of the 4 most recent listings shown here, 0 are open for application.
- $200K–$500K
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- -
- next application deadline
- $10.0 million
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 18%
- of the catalog is Education
TRIO — Talent Search · lower-band active desk (#456/502 by ceiling)
TRIO — Talent Search sits below most listed ceilings (9th percentile among 502 active programs), a floor-band Assistance Listing card, not a mega solicitation.
TRIO — Talent Search vs programs with listed funding ceilings
Where this CFDA's SAM.gov award ceiling sits among active Assistance Listings with a reported ceiling
$500,000 Top 91% higher than 9% of 502 programs
Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling
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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2026-06-30
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 84.044 · ED VOL-SPARSE · #359/504
VOL-SPARSE · LOWER-HALF · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-CLOSED · CEIL-MID · ELIG-EDU · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-SPARSE 4 indexed
- LOWER-HALF #359/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-CLOSED 0 open of 4 listed
- CEIL-MID $200K–$500K
- ELIG-EDU Educational institution
- BOOK-FULL 4 listed / 4 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 84.044
VOL-SPARSE · #359/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestTRIO — Talent Search · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
Steady solicitations at mid-scale funding
Mid-range ceiling ($200,000 to $500,000) plus an active Grants.gov book (4 indexed rows) for TRIO — Talent Search. Open share on the recent slice: 0% (0/4). This is a working competition desk, not a dormant catalog stub.
Assistance Listing text · ED
Identifies potential college students from disadvantaged backgrounds and assists with preparation and enrollment.
Campus applicant desk · Education
Educational institutions are the sole printed applicant type for CFDA 84.044. TRIO — Talent Search reads as a campus Assistance Listing, not a civic or commercial open desk.
Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 84.044
100% of the 4 indexed listings under CFDA 84.044 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism TRIO — Talent Search typically uses to move money. None of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $622.8 million across 4 listings (avg $155.7 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 1,563 across 4 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 84.044, 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 84.044
None of the 4 indexed Grants.gov listings under CFDA 84.044 are open on the current extract. Reported award ceilings swing from $240,000 to $10.0 million (42×); treat any single listing's ceiling as a local bound, not the program's typical award. 75% of listings carry the Education (ED) funding-activity code.
- Open vs archived (indexed book)
- 0 open · 4 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $277,000 (3 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 84.044
Talent Search Program
Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE): Talent Search Program Assistance Listing Number 84.044A
Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE): Talent Search Program CFDA Number 84.044A
Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE): Talent Search (TS) Program CFDA Number 84.044A
What to do next
CFDA 84.044: 4 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: Nurse Anesthetist Traineeships (93.124). 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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