Health · Active
Foster Grandparents Program · AmeriCorps · Sparse NOFO · mid band
Foster Grandparents Program (CFDA 93.648) - federal assistance administered by AmeriCorps (AmeriCorps), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $200K–$2M
- Typical award range
- 2
- Indexed opportunities
- 0
- Open now
- AmeriCorps
- Administering agency
The verdict
According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, Foster Grandparents Program ranks #83 of 504, #1 of 5 within AmeriCorps, and #86 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 93.648 is an active Health program with 2 indexed Grants.gov opportunities. Of the 13 most recent listings shown here, 0 are open for application.
- $200K–$2M
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- -
- next application deadline
- $5.0 million
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 21%
- of the catalog is Health
Foster Grandparents Program · lower-band quiet listing (#368/502 by ceiling)
Foster Grandparents Program sits below most listed ceilings (27th percentile among 502 active programs), a floor-band Assistance Listing card, not a mega solicitation.
Foster Grandparents Program 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 · 2026-07-31
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 93.648 · AmeriCorps VOL-SPARSE · #83/504
VOL-SPARSE · UPPER-Q · SOLO-LISTING · NOFO-CLOSED · CEIL-MILLION · ELIG-MIX · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-SPARSE 2 indexed
- UPPER-Q #83/504
- SOLO-LISTING No peer gap
- NOFO-CLOSED 0 open of 13 listed
- CEIL-MILLION $200K–$2M
- ELIG-MIX 2 eligible desks
- BOOK-FULL 13 listed / 2 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 93.648
VOL-SPARSE · #83/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±- row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestFoster Grandparents… · this listingPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
Few announcements, mid-scale dollars
Mid-band ceiling ($200,000 to $2.0 million) with only 2 indexed Grants.gov rows for Foster Grandparents Program. Competitive traffic is light relative to the printed award size, so deadlines on the sparse NOFO list matter more than catalog rank.
Assistance Listing text · AmeriCorps
Grants for senior volunteers to serve as mentors and tutors for children with special needs.
Civic applicant mix · government + nonprofit doors
Foster Grandparents Program combines government/tribal and nonprofit applicant types (2 doors). The listing is a civic funding corridor spanning public and nonprofit operators.
Predominantly cooperative agreements (CA) · CFDA 93.648
77% of the 13 indexed listings under CFDA 93.648 are cooperative agreements (CA), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Foster Grandparents Program typically uses to move money. 15% of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $49.8 million across 13 listings (avg $3.8 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 49 across 13 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 93.648, 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 93.648
None of the 13 indexed Grants.gov listings under CFDA 93.648 are open on the current extract. Reported award ceilings swing from $200,000 to $5.0 million (25×); treat any single listing's ceiling as a local bound, not the program's typical award. 100% of listings carry the Income Security and Social Services (ISS) funding-activity code.
- Open vs archived (indexed book)
- 0 open · 13 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $1.0 million (13 listings with a ceiling)
- Dominant Grants.gov funding-activity code
- Income Security and Social Services (ISS)
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.
AmeriCorps · administering agency
AmeriCorps
National service and volunteer programs engaging Americans in community service.
Grants.gov opportunities · CFDA 93.648
Fingerprinting Infrastructure Modernization for Child Welfare
Foster Parents Network Analytics Hub (HUB)
State-Tribal Partnerships to Implement Best Practices in Indian Child Welfare
The National Child Welfare Workforce Institute
Quality Improvement Center on Workforce Analytics
Family Support through Primary Prevention (FSPP) Demonstration Sites
Child Welfare Training: The National Child Welfare Workforce Institute
State and Tribal Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) Implementation Partnership Grants
Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development
Child Welfare Training: The National Child Welfare Workforce Institute
Showing 10 of the 13 most recent listings (2 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 93.648: 2 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
- AmeriCorps (AmeriCorps) administers 5 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.
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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