Health · Active
Medical Library Assistance · NIH · High-volume · mid band
Medical Library Assistance (CFDA 93.879) - federal assistance administered by National Institutes of Health (NIH), catalogued in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings.
- $100K–$1M
- Typical award range
- 46
- Indexed opportunities
- 3
- Open now
- NIH
- Administering agency
The verdict
According to indexed Grants.gov opportunity volume among active SAM.gov programs on PlainGrants, Medical Library Assistance ranks #38 of 504, #17 of 22 within NIH, and #99 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 93.879 is an active Health program with 46 indexed Grants.gov opportunities. Of the 20 most recent listings shown here, 3 are open for application.
- $100K–$1M
- typical award range (SAM.gov)
- April 15
- next application deadline
- $3.2 million
- largest award ceiling indexed
- 21%
- of the catalog is Health
Medical Library Assistance · floor-band ceiling on a busy book (#420/502)
Medical Library Assistance sits below most listed ceilings (16th percentile among 502 active programs), a floor-band Assistance Listing card, not a mega solicitation.
Medical Library Assistance vs programs with listed funding ceilings
Where this CFDA's SAM.gov award ceiling sits among active Assistance Listings with a reported ceiling
$1,000,000 Top 84% higher than 16% of 502 programs
Programs, banded by listed funding ceiling
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Source SAM.gov Assistance Listings · 2026-02-11
SAM.gov Assistance Listing plate
CFDA 93.879 · NIH VOL-STEADY · #38/504
VOL-STEADY · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · NOFO-OPEN · CEIL-MILLION · ELIG-MIX · BOOK-FULL · LISTING-LIVE
- VOL-STEADY 46 indexed
- TOP-DECILE #38/504
- PHOTO-FINISH NSF Small Business Te… · 47.084
- NOFO-OPEN 3 open of 20 listed
- CEIL-MILLION $100K–$1M
- ELIG-MIX 2 eligible desks
- BOOK-FULL 20 listed / 46 indexed
- LISTING-LIVE Active SAM.gov listing
Nearest Grants.gov-volume peer outside Health: NSF Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) (CFDA 47.084) (±1 indexed rows)
Opportunity-volume neighbourhood · CFDA 93.879
VOL-STEADY · #38/504: quiet/busy corpus poles and ±1 row peers, not a SAM.gov catalog reprint.
Engineering Grants · busiestNSF Small Business… · nearUSAID International… · nearMedical Library Ass… · this listingNSF Small Business… · nearAntarctic Research… · nearPlant and Animal Di… · quiet pole
Funding posture
High-traffic mid-ceiling grant corridor
Mid-band funding ($100,000 to $1.0 million) with a hot opportunity book (46 indexed rows) under CFDA 93.879. Medical Library Assistance is one of the busier mid-scale corridors in the indexed set; open rate on the recent slice is 15%.
Assistance Listing text · NIH
Grants for training, research, and resource projects in health sciences libraries and information management.
Campus–civic applicant bridge · 2 doors
Medical Library Assistance bridges educational institutions with civic applicant types (2 doors: Educational Institution, Nonprofit Organization). Expect campus and public/nonprofit operators in the same printed set.
Predominantly grants (G) · CFDA 93.879
84% of the 38 indexed listings under CFDA 93.879 are grants (G), the SAM.gov-coded mechanism Medical Library Assistance typically uses to move money. None of the indexed listings require applicant cost-sharing.
- Estimated funding, indexed listings with a reported figure
- $32.4 million across 15 listings (avg $2.2 million)
- Expected awards, indexed listings with a reported count
- 54 across 11 listings
Figures are computed from the full indexed Grants.gov book for CFDA 93.879, 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 93.879
Only 3 of 38 indexed listings under CFDA 93.879 are open (8%); the book is mostly archived. Reported award ceilings swing from $1 to $3.2 million (3200000×); treat any single listing's ceiling as a local bound, not the program's typical award. 89% of listings carry the Education (ED) funding-activity code.
- Open vs archived (indexed book)
- 3 open · 35 archived
- Median reported award ceiling
- $250,000 (26 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.
NIH · administering agency
National Institutes of Health
Biomedical and behavioral research grants for universities, institutions, and investigators.
Grants.gov opportunities · CFDA 93.879 3 Open
Research Grants in Clinical Informatics (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Advancing Bioinformatics, Translational Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Research (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Computational Approaches to Curation at Scale for Biomedical Research Assets (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
NLM Research Grants in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
NLM Grants for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health (G13 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Computational Approaches to Curation at Scale for Biomedical Research Assets (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
NLM Grants for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health (G13 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
NLM Research Grants in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Short-Term Research Education Experiences to Attract Talented Students to Biomedical Informatics/Data Science Careers and Enhance Diversity (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Network of the National Library of Medicine All of Us Program Center (U24) (Clinical Trial Optional)
Showing 10 of the 20 most recent listings (46 indexed).
What to do next
CFDA 93.879: 46 indexed opportunities · 3 open on the recent slice.
- Start with the open listing PAR-26-042 (closes April 15, 2027) before you compare distant categories. Open listing
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) administers 22 Assistance Listings in this extract. Agency catalog
- Nearest peer by listed ceiling: Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) (97.044). Compare program
SAM.gov ceilings are catalog maximums, not guaranteed awards; verify every deadline on Grants.gov before submitting.
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