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FY 2027-28 Sustainable Transportation Planning Grant

Award ceiling
$50,000 – $700,000
Closes
Oct 9, 2026
Last verified
2026-10-10

Awards $50,000 – $700,000 per recipient for public agency, tribal government, closing Oct 9, 2026.

Public AgencyTribal GovernmentCATransportation

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FY 2027-28 Sustainable Transportation Planning Grant awards $50,000 – $700,000 per recipient, open to public agency, tribal government in CA, closing Oct 9, 2026.

Record fields
Program pool (total)
Not stated
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project)
$700,000
Total pool: $22.4 million across three grant types
Award floor
$50,000
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Oct 9, 2026
Deadline type
Fixed date
Opens
Not stated
Status
Closed
Eligible entities
Public Agency · Tribal Government
Geography
CA
Matching funds
Yes
Disbursement
Reimbursement
Application effort
Not confirmed
Use of funds
Transportation Planning · Sustainable Communities · Strategic Partnerships · Transit Planning
Currency
USD

How much money is available?

Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.

Program pool (total)Across all awards this cycle
Not stated
Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
$700,000

Source wording: “Total pool: $22.4 million across three grant types”

Who can apply?

level
Derived from the source that published this record
entity
Public Agency, Tribal Government
Source field: entity types
state
Source field: states
industry
Source field: industries
use
Strategic Partnerships, Sustainable Communities, Transit Planning, Transportation Planning
Source field: use of funds
size limit

Not stated

Source field: applicant size limit
clause text

Not stated

We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.

When does it close?

Oct 9, 2026ClosedDeadline type Fixed date

What can the money be used for?

4 categorys
The source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
Transportation PlanningSustainable CommunitiesStrategic PartnershipsTransit Planning

These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.

How hard is the application?

3 fields
Effort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
Application effort
Not confirmed
Disbursement
Reimbursement
Recipients spend first and are reimbursed. Plan cash flow accordingly.
Matching funds
Yes
11%

What comparable notices state

9 records
Stated ceilings on open records in the same industry.

Sample too small. 9 open records stored under Transportation state an award ceiling, and no figures are shown below 10. Three records do not have a middle, and a median drawn from them would be read as a benchmark.

Common questions

7 questions
Every answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
How much can one applicant receive?
$50,000 – $700,000 per recipient. The source states: “Total pool: $22.4 million across three grant types”.
When is the application deadline?
Oct 9, 2026.
Who is eligible to apply?
Public Agency, Tribal Government.
Which locations are eligible?
CA.
What can the funding be used for?
Transportation Planning, Sustainable Communities, Strategic Partnerships, Transit Planning, as classified by the source.
Is matching funding required?
Yes. This programme requires matching funds. 11%
Is the money paid up front or reimbursed?
Reimbursement. Recipients spend first and claim the cost back, so the money has to be found before it is repaid.

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Source pagegrants.ca.gov
Retrieved2026-10-10
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-09-01

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