Health · Active
Oral Health Prevention and Education · CDC · High-volume · mid band
Oral Health Prevention and Education (CFDA 93.121) - federal assistance administered by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $100K–$2M
- Typical award range
- 107
- Indexed opportunities
- 8
- Open now
- CDC
- Administering agency
The verdict
According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, Oral Health Prevention and Education ranks #21 of 504, #1 of 12 within CDC, and #78 of 106 among Health 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 93.121 is an active Health program with 107 indexed Grants.gov opportunities. Of the 20 most recent listings shown here, 8 are open for application.
- $100K–$2M
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- January 6
- next application deadline
- $500,000
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 21%
- of the catalog is Health
Oral Health Prevention and Education · floor-band ceiling on a busy book (#368/502)
Oral Health Prevention and Education sits below most listed ceilings (27th percentile among 502 active programs), a floor-band Assistance Listing card, not a mega solicitation.
Oral Health Prevention and Education vs programs with listed funding ceilings
Where this CFDA's SAM.gov award ceiling sits among active Assistance Listings with a reported ceiling
$2,000,000 Top 73% higher than 27% of 502 programs
Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling
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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2026-06-16
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 93.121 · CDC VOL-BUSY · #21/504
VOL-BUSY · TOP-DECILE · CLEAR-GAP · NOFO-OPEN · CEIL-MILLION · ELIG-SLG · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-BUSY 107 indexed
- TOP-DECILE #21/504
- CLEAR-GAP STEM Education Grants · 47.076
- NOFO-OPEN 8 open of 20 listed
- CEIL-MILLION $100K–$2M
- ELIG-SLG State/local government
- BOOK-FULL 20 listed / 107 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Nearest Grants.gov-volume peer outside Health: STEM Education Grants (CFDA 47.076) (±28 indexed rows)
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 93.121
VOL-BUSY · #21/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±28 row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestBiological Sciences · nearComputer and Inform… · nearSTEM Education Gran… · nearOral Health Prevent… · this listingInternational Scien… · nearPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
High-traffic mid-ceiling grant corridor
Mid-band funding ($100,000 to $2.0 million) with a hot opportunity book (107 indexed rows) under CFDA 93.121. Oral Health Prevention and Education is one of the busier mid-scale corridors in the indexed set; open rate on the recent slice is 40%.
Assistance Listing text · CDC
Programs to prevent oral diseases and improve oral health in communities through education and fluoride.
Public-sector applicant lane · CDC
SAM.gov lists only government/tribal applicants for Oral Health Prevention and Education. This is a public-sector Assistance Listing corridor, not a general nonprofit or small-business open call.
Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 93.121
81% of the 235 indexed listings under CFDA 93.121 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Oral Health Prevention and Education typically uses to move money. None of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $172.5 million across 62 listings (avg $2.8 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 39 across 15 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 93.121, not the 10 listings shown below; a listing missing a field is excluded from that field's total, not counted as zero.
Mostly archived listings · CFDA 93.121
Only 8 of 235 indexed listings under CFDA 93.121 are open (3%); the book is mostly archived. Reported award ceilings swing from $100,000 to $4.0 million (40×); treat any single listing's ceiling as a local bound, not the program's typical award. 100% of listings carry the Health (HL) funding-activity code.
- Open vs archived (indexed book)
- 8 open · 227 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $250,000 (87 listings with a ceiling)
- Dominant Grants.gov funding-activity code
- Health (HL)
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.
CDC · administering agency
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Public health surveillance, disease prevention, health promotion, and emergency preparedness.
Grants.gov opportunities · CFDA 93.121 8 Open
NIDCR Prospective Observational or Biomarker Validation Study Cooperative Agreement (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Causal Hypotheses on the Oral-Systemic Health Impacts of Human Behaviors among People with Chronic Conditions (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
NIDCR Dual Degree Dentist Scientist Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
NIDCR Dentist Scientist Career Transition Award for Intramural Investigators (K22 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
NIDCR Small Grant Program for New Investigators (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Continuation or Revision of NIDCR Clinical Trial Planning and Implementation Cooperative Agreement (UH3 Clinical Trial Required)
NIDCR Drug, Biologic, Device and/or Procedure Intervention Clinical Trial Planning and Implementation Cooperative Agreement (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Required)
NIDCR Behavioral and Social Intervention Clinical Trial Planning and Implementation Cooperative Agreement (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Required)
Epidemiological and Behavioral Research in Oral Health (R01)
Clinical Studies of Bisphosphonate Therapy and Osteonecrosis of the Jaws (R01)
Showing 10 of the 20 most recent listings (107 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 93.121: 107 indexed opportunities · 8 open on the recent slice.
- Start with the open listing PAR-27-058 (closes January 6, 2028) before you compare distant categories. Open listing
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) administers 12 Assistance Listings in this extract. Agency catalog
- Nearest peer by listed ceiling: Teaching American History (84.380). 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.
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