Education · Active
Fund for the Improvement of Education · ED · High-volume · mid band
Fund for the Improvement of Education (CFDA 84.215) - federal assistance administered by U.S. Department of Education (ED), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $100K–$3M
- 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, Fund for the Improvement of Education ranks #385 of 504, #37 of 77 within ED, and #59 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 84.215 is an active Education program with 20 indexed Grants.gov opportunities. Of the 20 most recent listings shown here, 0 are open for application.
- $100K–$3M
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- -
- next application deadline
- $50.0 million
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 18%
- of the catalog is Education
Fund for the Improvement of Education · midpack ceiling on a busy book (#293/502)
Fund for the Improvement of Education lands midpack on published ceilings (42nd percentile; rank #293 of 502). The printed high is a catalog cap, not a guaranteed outlay.
Fund for the Improvement of Education vs programs with listed funding ceilings
Where this CFDA's SAM.gov award ceiling sits among active Assistance Listings with a reported ceiling
$3,000,000 Top 58% higher than 42% of 502 programs
Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling
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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2026-06-29
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 84.215 · ED VOL-STEADY · #385/504
VOL-STEADY · LOWER-HALF · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-CLOSED · CEIL-MILLION · ELIG-MIX · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-STEADY 20 indexed
- LOWER-HALF #385/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-CLOSED 0 open of 20 listed
- CEIL-MILLION $100K–$3M
- ELIG-MIX 3 eligible desks
- BOOK-FULL 20 listed / 20 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 84.215
VOL-STEADY · #385/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestFund for the Improv… · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
High-traffic mid-ceiling grant corridor
Mid-band funding ($100,000 to $3.0 million) with a hot opportunity book (20 indexed rows) under CFDA 84.215. Fund for the Improvement of Education is one of the busier mid-scale corridors in the indexed set; open rate on the recent slice is 0%.
Assistance Listing text · ED
Promotes innovative approaches to improving education and educational equity.
Civic applicant mix · government + nonprofit doors
Fund for the Improvement of Education combines government/tribal and nonprofit applicant types (3 doors). The listing is a civic funding corridor spanning public and nonprofit operators.
Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 84.215
96% of the 51 indexed listings under CFDA 84.215 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Fund for the Improvement of Education typically uses to move money. 39% of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $960.6 million across 44 listings (avg $21.8 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 1,335 across 50 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 84.215, 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 84.215
None of the 51 indexed Grants.gov listings under CFDA 84.215 are open on the current extract. Reported award ceilings swing from $400,000 to $50.0 million (125×); treat any single listing's ceiling as a local bound, not the program's typical award. 96% of listings carry the Education (ED) funding-activity code.
- Open vs archived (indexed book)
- 0 open · 51 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $1.7 million (28 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 84.215
Promise Neighborhoods-84.215N
Innovative Approaches to Literacy 84.215G
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): School choice and Improvement Programs (SCIP): Promise Neighborhoods (PN), Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.215N
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): School Choice & Improvement Program (SCIP)Full-Service Community Schools (FSCS) Program, Assistance Listing Number 84.215J
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Well-Rounded Education Programs: Innovative Approaches to Literacy (IAL) Program, Assistance Listing Number 84.215G
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): School Choice & Improvement Programs (SCIP): Promise Neighborhoods (PN) Program, Assistance Listing Number 84.215N
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): School Choice & Improvement Programs (SCIP): Full-Service Community Schools (FSCS) Program, Assistance Listing Number 84.215J
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Innovative Approaches to Literacy (IAL) Program Assistance Listing CFDA Number 84.215G
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Promise Neighborhoods (PN) Programs Assistance Listing Number 84.215N
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Full-Service Community Schools (FCCS) Program Assistance Listing Number 84.215J
Showing 10 of the 20 most recent listings (20 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 84.215: 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: Transportation Technologies R&D (81.122). 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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