Education · Active
Charter Schools · ED · High-volume · mega band
Charter Schools (CFDA 84.282) - federal assistance administered by U.S. Department of Education (ED), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $500K–$10M
- 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, Charter Schools ranks #393 of 504, #45 of 77 within ED, and #29 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 84.282 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–$10M
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- -
- next application deadline
- $2.0 million
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 18%
- of the catalog is Education
Charter Schools · top-third ceiling among high-volume books (#132/502)
Charter Schools clears 370 of 502 published ceilings (74th percentile), an upper-band catalog maximum, not a promised award.
Charter Schools vs programs with listed funding ceilings
Where this CFDA's SAM.gov award ceiling sits among active Assistance Listings with a reported ceiling
$10,000,000 Top 26% higher than 74% of 502 programs
Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling
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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2026-04-16
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 84.282 · ED VOL-STEADY · #393/504
VOL-STEADY · LOWER-HALF · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-CLOSED · CEIL-TENS-M · ELIG-MIX · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-STEADY 20 indexed
- LOWER-HALF #393/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-CLOSED 0 open of 20 listed
- CEIL-TENS-M $500K–$10M
- ELIG-MIX 2 eligible desks
- BOOK-FULL 20 listed / 20 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 84.282
VOL-STEADY · #393/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestCharter Schools · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
Hottest mega-dollar solicitation lane
Charter Schools sits in the hot×mega corner: 20 indexed Grants.gov rows and a mega SAM.gov ceiling ($500,000 to $10.0 million). Both competition density and dollar capacity are elevated versus the catalog median; read open listings first, then ceiling peers.
Assistance Listing text · ED
Grants to support the creation, quality, and expansion of effective charter schools.
Campus–civic applicant bridge · 2 doors
Charter Schools bridges educational institutions with civic applicant types (2 doors: State or Local Government, Educational Institution). Expect campus and public/nonprofit operators in the same printed set.
Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 84.282
100% of the 70 indexed listings under CFDA 84.282 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Charter Schools typically uses to move money. 6% of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $2.7 billion across 70 listings (avg $38.6 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 704 across 68 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 84.282, 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 84.282
None of the 70 indexed Grants.gov listings under CFDA 84.282 are open on the current extract. Reported award ceilings swing from $200,000 to $25.0 million (125×); treat any single listing's ceiling as a local bound, not the program's typical award. 99% of listings carry the Education (ED) funding-activity code.
- Open vs archived (indexed book)
- 0 open · 70 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $1.5 million (23 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 84.282
CSP Grants to State Entities 84.282A
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Charter Schools Program (CSP)- Model Development and Dissemination Grants, Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.282G
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Expanding Opportunity Through Quality Charter Schools Program (CSP)—State Charter School Facilities Incentive Grant (SFIG) Program, Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.282D
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Charter Schools Program (CSP): CSP Developer Grants for The Opening of New Charter Schools, Assistance Listing Number 84.282B
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Charter Schools Program (CSP): CSP Developer Grants for the Replication and Expansion of High-Quality Charter Schools, Assistance Listing Number 84.282E
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Charter Schools Program (CSP): Grants to Charter Management Organizations for the Replication and Expansion of High-Quality Charter Schools Assistance Listing Number 84.282M
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Expanding Opportunity Through Quality Charter Schools Program (CSP)--Grants to State Entities (State Entity Grants), Assistance Listing Number 84.282A
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Charter School Program (CSP): State Charter School Facilities Incentive Grant (SFIG) Program, Assistance Listing Numbers 84.282D
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Grants to Charter Management Organizations for the Replication and Expansion of High-Quality Charter Schools (CMO Grants), Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.282M
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Charter School Program (CSP): CSP Developer Grants for the Replication and Expansion of High-Quality Charter Schools, Assistance Listing Number 84.282E
Showing 10 of the 20 most recent listings (20 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 84.282: 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 Storage Technologies (81.117). 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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