Education · Active
Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Educatio… · ED · Sparse NOFO · mega band
Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement (CFDA 84.048) - federal assistance administered by U.S. Department of Education (ED), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $500K–$20M
- Typical award range
- 1
- Indexed opportunities
- 0
- Open now
- ED
- Administering agency
The verdict
According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement ranks #363 of 504, #15 of 77 within ED, and #18 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 84.048 is an active Education program with 1 indexed Grants.gov opportunity. Of the 1 most recent listings shown here, 0 are open for application.
- $500K–$20M
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- -
- next application deadline
- $142.9 million
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 18%
- of the catalog is Education
Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Educatio… · upper-band quiet listing (#88/502 by ceiling)
Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Educatio… clears 414 of 502 published ceilings (82nd percentile), an upper-band catalog maximum, not a promised award.
Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Educatio… vs programs with listed funding ceilings
Where this CFDA's SAM.gov award ceiling sits among active Assistance Listings with a reported ceiling
$20,000,000 Top 18% higher than 82% of 502 programs
Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling
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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2026-04-24
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 84.048 · ED VOL-SPARSE · #363/504
VOL-SPARSE · LOWER-HALF · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-CLOSED · CEIL-TENS-M · ELIG-SLG · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-SPARSE 1 indexed
- LOWER-HALF #363/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-CLOSED 0 open of 1 listed
- CEIL-TENS-M $500K–$20M
- ELIG-SLG State/local government
- BOOK-FULL 1 listed / 1 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 84.048
VOL-SPARSE · #363/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestCarl D. Perkins Car… · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
Rare NOFOs under a mega ceiling
Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Educatio… pairs a mega SAM.gov ceiling ($500,000 to $20.0 million) with a sparse Grants.gov trail (1 indexed row). Large paper capacity, few public solicitations: watch the open flags on those scarce listings rather than expecting a steady NOFO cadence.
Assistance Listing text · ED
Formula grants to strengthen career and technical education programs at secondary and postsecondary levels.
Public-sector applicant lane · ED
SAM.gov lists only government/tribal applicants for Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Educatio…. This is a public-sector Assistance Listing corridor, not a general nonprofit or small-business open call.
Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 84.048
100% of the 1 indexed listings under CFDA 84.048 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Educatio… typically uses to move money. None of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $1.4 billion across 1 listings (avg $1.4 billion)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 57 across 1 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 84.048, 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 84.048
None of the 1 indexed Grants.gov listings under CFDA 84.048 are open on the current extract. Reported award ceilings stay in a tight band ($142.9 million–$142.9 million; 1.0×). 100% of listings carry the Education (ED) funding-activity code.
- Open vs archived (indexed book)
- 0 open · 1 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $142.9 million (1 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 84.048
What to do next
CFDA 84.048: 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. Department of Education (ED) administers 77 Assistance Listings in this extract. Agency catalog
- Nearest peer by listed ceiling: Environmental Cleanup (81.135). 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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