Upcoming Grant Opportunities

CDBG – Competitive Cycle

This category allows communities to apply for improvements to nearly any publicly-owned facility or infrastructure, as well as the clearance of vacant, dilapidated buildings.

Programs included:

Community Facilities: This program helps Missouri communities construct facilities that will serve a large portion of the public with a variety of services. With education and health/well-being programs taking priority, communities can utilize this program to construct senior centers, day care centers, rural health clinics, telecommunications, and 911 services, among others.

General Infrastructure: This program helps Missouri communities strengthen its local economy by improving local public infrastructure, streets, drainage, and bridges. Reliable and sustainable infrastructure helps support the business community as well as residents.

Demolition: These grants help Missouri communities with demolition of vacant, dilapidated structures (primarily residential) in blighted areas and that present safety hazards.

FY2025 is expected to open April 2025
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Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP)

The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) is seeking projects to be funded using Rural Statewide Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) funds. This program call will award $18.3 millions of federal TAP funds.

Eligible projects include:

  • Construction of on-road and off-road trail facilities for pedestrians, bicyclists, and other non-motorized forms of transportation, including sidewalks, bicycle infrastructure, pedestrian and bicycle signals, traffic calming techniques, lighting, and other safety-related infrastructure, and transportation projects to achieve compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990;
  • Construction of infrastructure-related projects and systems that will provide safe routes for non-drivers, including children, older adults, and individuals with disabilities to access daily needs;
  • Conversion and use of abandoned railroad corridors for trails for pedestrians, bicyclists, or other non-motorized transportation users; and
  • Construction of infrastructure-related projects to improve the ability of students to walk and bicycle to school, including sidewalk improvements, traffic calming and speed reduction improvements, pedestrian and bicycle crossing improvements, on-street bicycle facilities, off-street bicycle and pedestrian facilities, secure bicycle parking facilities, and traffic diversion improvements in the vicinity of schools.

Awarded projects will be funded with a maximum 80 percent federal funds and require a minimum 20 percent local match. A project must seek a minimum of $100,000 of federal reimbursement. The maximum federal reimbursement is $600,000.

Call for projects typically opens in the Spring

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Safe Streets for All (SS4A)

The SS4A program supports the development of a comprehensive safety action plan (referred to as an “Action Plan”) that identifies the most significant roadway safety concerns in a community and the implementation of projects and strategies to address roadway safety issues. Action Plans are the foundation of the SS4A grant program.

SS4A requires an eligible Action Plan be in place before applying to implement projects and strategies.

The SS4A program provides funding for two types of grants: Planning and Demonstration Grants and Implementation Grants.

Learn more about these grant types in the brief descriptions below and see the following pages for more details:

FY25 NOFO expected to me released in March 2025


Open grants and funding cycles

MoDOT Freight Enhancement Program

MoDOT's Freight Enhancement Program is focused on improving and maintaining the high priority freight assets and corridors that are critical to the movement of freight into, out of, within and through Missouri.  This program is based on partnerships with freight stakeholders and public officials to identify the greatest freight movement needs and remove barriers to efficient movement of goods through capital improvements to the system.  Since SFY 2014, 40 projects totaling over $16.3 million have been funded through the program.

 Project eligibility and the application procedure are detailed in the FRE notice document below. Applications should be submitted electronically in Adobe.pdf format to MoFreight@modot.mo.gov.

Applications are being accepted for the State Fiscal Year 2026 Freight Enhancement Program through 5 p.m. May 7, 2025.

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Rural and Tribal Assistance Pilot Program

The Rural and Tribal Assistance Pilot Program, which provides grants to support legal, technical, and financial advisors to help advance infrastructure projects. Grants are awarded as first-come, first-served with applications reviewed in the order in which they are received.

Eligible project sponsors may receive grant funds to select advisors to assist with pre-development-phase activities, including:

  • feasibility studies
  • project planning
  • revenue forecasting and funding and financing options analyses
  • preliminary engineering and design work
  • environmental review
  • economic assessments and cost-benefit analyses
  • public benefits studies
  • statutory and regulatory framework analyses
  • value-for-money (VFM) studies
  • evaluations of costs to sustain the project
  • evaluation opportunities for private financing and project bundling

APPLICATION PERIOD *Updated*: March 18 – April 17, 2025

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Neighborhood Assistance Program (NAP)

The Missouri Department of Economic Development (MoDED) will provide funding under this program to implement community or neighborhood projects that strengthen economic development. This program can help fund projects in the categories of job training, education, crime prevention, community services, and physical revitalization.

Eligible applicants include not-for-profit corporations, 501(c)(3) organizations, and Missouri businesses. Applicants may request up to $350,000 in 70% tax credits or $250,000 in 50% tax credits.

DEADLINE: Bi-Annual, next deadline is May 1, 2025

Apply Here

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FY23 - FY26 FHWA Bridge Investment Program, Planning and Bridge Project Grants

The Bridge Investment Program is a competitive, discretionary program that focuses on existing bridges to reduce the overall number of bridges in poor condition, or in fair condition at risk of falling into poor condition. It also expands applicant eligibilities to create opportunity for all levels of

government to be direct recipients of program funds. Alongside states and federal lands management agencies, metropolitan planning organizations and local and tribal governments can also apply directly to FHWA, making it easier to advance projects at the local level that meet community needs.

The FHWA has opened a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for up to $9.62 billion in FYs 2023 through 2026 Bridge Project grant applications and $80 million in FYs 2023 through FY 2026 Planning

Project grant applications under the Bridge Investment Program. Bridge Project Grants under the Bridge Investment Program are available for bridges with total eligible project costs up to $100 million, with minimum grant awards of $2.5 million, and maximum grant awards of 80 percent of

the total eligible project costs. Planning Project grant applications are available for bridges with maximum grant awards of 80 percent of the total eligible project costs.

DEADLINES:

Planning Application: FY26 October 1, 2025

Bridge Project Application: FY26 November 1, 2025

Apply Here


Additional Funding Opportunities and Ongoing Grant Cycles