Education · Active
Early Learning Alignment and Improvement Gran… · ED · High-volume · mega band
Early Learning Alignment and Improvement Grants (CFDA 84.411) - federal assistance administered by U.S. Department of Education (ED), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $5M–$25M
- 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, Early Learning Alignment and Improvement Grants ranks #419 of 504, #71 of 77 within ED, and #13 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 84.411 is an active Education program with 20 indexed Grants.gov opportunities. Of the 20 most recent listings shown here, 0 are open for application.
- $5M–$25M
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- -
- next application deadline
- $15.0 million
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 18%
- of the catalog is Education
Early Learning Alignment and Improvement Gran… · top-third ceiling among high-volume books (#66/502)
Early Learning Alignment and Improvement Gran… clears 436 of 502 published ceilings (87th percentile), an upper-band catalog maximum, not a promised award.
Early Learning Alignment and Improvement Gran… vs programs with listed funding ceilings
Where this CFDA's SAM.gov award ceiling sits among active Assistance Listings with a reported ceiling
$25,000,000 Top 13% higher than 87% of 502 programs
Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling
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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2025-09-16
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 84.411 · ED VOL-STEADY · #419/504
VOL-STEADY · LOWER-HALF · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-CLOSED · CEIL-TENS-M · ELIG-SLG · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-STEADY 20 indexed
- LOWER-HALF #419/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-CLOSED 0 open of 20 listed
- CEIL-TENS-M $5M–$25M
- ELIG-SLG State/local government
- BOOK-FULL 20 listed / 20 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 84.411
VOL-STEADY · #419/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestEarly Learning Alig… · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
Hottest mega-dollar solicitation lane
Early Learning Alignment and Improvement Gran… sits in the hot×mega corner: 20 indexed Grants.gov rows and a mega SAM.gov ceiling ($5.0 million to $25.0 million). Both competition density and dollar capacity are elevated versus the catalog median; read open listings first, then ceiling peers.
Assistance Listing text · ED
Helps states align, coordinate, and improve early learning and development programs for children birth through age 5.
Public-sector applicant lane · ED
SAM.gov lists only government/tribal applicants for Early Learning Alignment and Improvement Gran…. This is a public-sector Assistance Listing corridor, not a general nonprofit or small-business open call.
Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 84.411
88% of the 49 indexed listings under CFDA 84.411 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Early Learning Alignment and Improvement Gran… typically uses to move money. 82% of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $5.8 billion across 43 listings (avg $135.3 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 365 across 39 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 84.411, 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 84.411
None of the 49 indexed Grants.gov listings under CFDA 84.411 are open on the current extract. Reported award ceilings span $3.0 million–$25.0 million (8.3×), a wide solicitation range inside one CFDA. 100% of listings carry the Education (ED) funding-activity code.
- Open vs archived (indexed book)
- 0 open · 49 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $11.5 million (38 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 84.411
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Innovation and Early Learning Programs: Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Program Expansion Grants Assistance Listing Number 84.411A
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Innovation and Early Learning Programs: Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Program Mid-Phase Grants Assistance Listing Number 84.411B
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Innovation and Early Learning Programs: Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Program Early-Phase Grants Assistance Listing Number 84.411C
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Innovation and Early Learning Programs: Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Program Expansion Grants Assistance Listing Number 84.411A
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Innovation and Early Learning Programs: Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Program Mid-Phase Grants Assistance Listing Number 84.411B
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Innovation and Early Learning Programs: Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Program—Early-Phase Grants Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.411C
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Innovation and Early Learning Programs: Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Program—Expansion Grants Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.411A
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Innovation and Early Learning Programs: Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Program—Mid-Phase Grants Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.411B
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Innovation and Early Learning Programs: Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Program—Early-Phase Grants Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.411C
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Innovation and Early Learning Programs: Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Program—Mid-Phase Grants Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.411B
Showing 10 of the 20 most recent listings (20 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 84.411: 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: Block Grants for Community Mental Health Serv… (93.958). 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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