Competitive Grant Funding Matrix
The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) and FHWA have a variety of competitive grant programs used to fund various types of transportation projects and activities. The matrix illustrates these programs broadly, organized by applicant type. Potential applicants should refer to the applicable column in the matrix. The matrix lists grant programs (rows), which can be matched with the potential applicant (columns) the program can fund. Potential applicants should review program specific guidance to make informed decisions about each program.
The FHWA will continue to add additional programs/information to this page over the weeks, months, and years to come.
| Grant Program | Program Description | State Highway agency | Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) | Local Government or agency | Federally-recognized Indian Tribe | Federal Lands Management Agency (FLMA) | Puerto Rico | Territories | Other* | Additional Information |
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| Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) | Provides grants for surface transportation infrastructure projects that will have a significant local or regional impact (aka Local and Regional Project Assistance). | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Nationally Significant Multimodal Freight and Highway Projects (INFRA) | Provides grants for multimodal freight and highway projects of national or regional significance. | Yes | Yes (with a population over 200,000) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| National Infrastructure Project Assistance Program (MEGA) | Provides grants to surface transportation infrastructure that are too large or complex for traditional funding programs that will have a significant national or regional impact. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Rural Surface Transportation Grant Program | Provides grants for projects to improve and expand the surface transportation infrastructure in rural areas to increase connectivity, improve the safety and reliability of the movement of people and freight, and generate regional economic growth and improve quality of life. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes (Regional transportation planning organizations) | ||||
| Safe Streets and Roads for All | Provides grants to support local initiatives to prevent transportation-related death and serious injury on roads and streets (commonly referred to as “Vision Zero” or “Toward Zero Deaths” initiatives). | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | FY 2022 NOFO | ||||
| Bridge Investment Program | Provides grants for projects to improve the condition of bridges and culverts and the safety, efficiency, and reliability of the movement of people and freight over bridges. | Yes | Yes (population greater than 200,000) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | FY 2022 NOFO 2022 BIP Planning Grant Awards |
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| Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program — Planning Grants | Provides grants for feasibility studies and other planning activities for projects to restore community connectivity by removing, retrofitting, or mitigating highways or other transportation facilities that create barriers to community connectivity, including to mobility, access, or economic development. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes (non-profit organization) | FY 2022 NOFO | ||
| Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program — Capital Construction Grants | Provides grants for projects to restore community connectivity by removing, retrofitting, or mitigating highways or other transportation facilities that create barriers to community connectivity, including to mobility, access, or economic development. | Yes (The applicant must be the owner of the system. Others may partner with the owner.) | Yes (The applicant must be the owner of the system. Others may partner with the owner.) | Yes (The applicant must be the owner of the system. Others may partner with the owner.) | Yes (The applicant must be the owner of the system. Others may partner with the owner.) | Yes (The applicant must be the owner of the system. Others may partner with the owner.) | Yes (The applicant must be the owner of the system. Others may partner with the owner.) | FY 2022 NOFO | ||
| Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-saving Transportation (PROTECT) Discretionary Grants | Provides grants for activities that enable communities to address vulnerabilities to current and future weather events, natural disasters, and changing conditions, including sea level rise, and plan transportation improvements and emergency response strategies to address those vulnerabilities. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes (when applying jointly with a State) | Yes | Yes (for at-risk coastal infrastructure grants only) | Yes | |
| Tribal High Priority Projects Program | Provides grants to Indian Tribes or a governmental subdivision of an Indian Tribe whose annual allocation of funding received under the Tribal Transportation Program is insufficient to complete the highest priority project of the Tribe, or to any Tribe that has an emergency or disaster occur on a Tribal transportation facility that renders the facility impassible or unusable. | Yes | ||||||||
| National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Set-aside Discretionary Grant | 10 percent set-aside each fiscal year to provide grants to provide additional assistance to strategically deploy EV charging infrastructure. | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Grants Program (Community Charging) | Provides grants for projects to develop electric vehicle charging and hydrogen, propane, and natural gas fueling infrastructure access along alternative fuel corridors throughout the country, including in rural areas, low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, and communities with a low ratio of private parking spaces to households or a high ratio of multiunit dwellings to single family homes. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) Discretionary Grant Program NOFO | |
| Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Grants Program (Corridor Charging) | Deploys publicly accessible EV charging infrastructure and hydrogen, propane, and natural gas fueling infrastructure along designated Alternative Fuel Corridors. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) Discretionary Grant Program NOFO | |
| Nationally Significant Federal Lands and Tribal Projects (NSFLTP) Program | Provides grants to Tribes and Federal land management agencies to complete projects that will provide substantial benefits to their communities or parklands. | Yes (if sponsored by an FLMA or Tribe) | Yes (if sponsored by an FLMA or Tribe) | Yes (if sponsored by an FLMA or Tribe) | Yes | Yes | Yes (if sponsored by an FLMA or Tribe) | Yes (if sponsored by an FLMA or Tribe) | FY 2022 NOFO | |
| Congestion Relief Program | Provides grants to advance innovative, integrated, and multimodal solutions to reduce congestion and the related economic and environmental costs in the most congested metropolitan areas with an urbanized area population of at least 1 million. | Yes | Yes | Yes (city or municipality) | Yes | |||||
| Wildlife Crossings Safety Pilot Program | Provides grants to support projects that seek to reduce the number of wildlife-vehicle collisions, and in carrying out that purpose, improve habitat connectivity for terrestrial and aquatic species. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| National Culvert Removal, Replacement, and Restoration Grants | Provides grants to fund projects for the replacement, removal, and repair of culvert or weirs that would meaningfully improve or restore fish passage for anadromous fish. | Yes | Yes | Yes | FY 2022 NOFO | |||||
| Advanced Transportation Technologies and Innovative Mobility Deployment (also known as Advanced Transportation Technology and Innovation (ATTAIN) Program) | Provides grants to deploy, install, and operate advanced transportation technologies to improve safety, mobility, efficiency, system performance, intermodal connectivity, and infrastructure return on investment. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | FY 2022 NOFO | |||
| Highway Use Tax Evasion Program (HUTE) | Grants which aim to identify, reduce, and/or eliminate evasion of fuel taxes at the Federal and State level | Yes | Yes (Internal Revenue Service) | |||||||
| Accelerated Innovation Deployment (AID) Demonstration Program | Provides grants to support the pilot/demonstration of innovations on projects, in areas such as planning, financing, operations, pavements, structures, materials, environment, and construction. | Yes | Yes (population over 200,000 - must apply through the State DOT as a subrecipient) | Yes (must apply through the State DOT as a subrecipient) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes (must apply through the State DOT as a subrecipient) | ||
| Tribal Transportation Program Safety Fund | Prevent and reduce transportation-related injuries and fatalities on Tribal Lands. | Yes | ||||||||
| Strategic Innovation for Revenue Collection | Provides funds to test the feasibility of a road usage fee and other user-based alternative revenue mechanisms to help maintain the long-term solvency of the Highway Trust Fund. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Prioritization Process Pilot Program | Supports data-driven approaches to planning that can be evaluated for public benefit. | Yes | Yes (serving an urban area with a population over 200,000) |
* "Other" may include: multi-jurisdictional groups of eligible applicants, regional transportation authority, special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function, transit agency, multistate corridor organizations, partnership between Amtrak and one or more other eligible entities, nonprofit organization, or public toll authority.