U.S. Department of Education

# Forecast of Funding Opportunities under the Department of Education Discretionary Grant Programs for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024

This document lists virtually all programs and competitions under which the Department (we) has invited or expects to invite applications for new awards and provides actual or estimated deadline dates for the transmittal of applications under these programs. The lists are in the form of charts -- organized according to the Department's principal program offices -- and include programs and competitions we have previously announced, as well as those we plan to announce at a later date. **If you are interested in applying for any upcoming grants with the Department of Education, please take the time to register with SAM at www.SAM.gov, as you must have an active account in order to submit a grant application with our agency. We recommend you register now even as you are looking for eligible grant programs so that your SAM registration is active by the time the application is published. This will allow you to focus on writing the application during the period the application is available and you are not spending a portion of that time obtaining SAM registration. Please click here to refer to the SAM tip sheet for additional information.**

***Note:***This document is advisory only and is not an official application notice of the Department of Education. We expect to provide updates to this document starting in the first week of June in a fiscal year and continuing through the following August. Please keep in mind that the dates recorded in this document are **SUBJECT TO CHANGE** and that the average size/number of awards are **ESTIMATES.**

***Note on printing:*** For best results, print this document in landscape orientation.

## Organization of this Document

We have assigned to each principal office a separate chart as follows:

Chart1 - Institute of Education Sciences.

Chart2 - Office of Elementary and Secondary Education.

Chart3 - Office of Postsecondary Education (Link to HEP Chart)

Chart4 - Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services

Chart5- Office of Career, Technical and Adult Education 

Chart6 - Office of English Language Acquisition

## Grant Application Information

Here's how you can tell whether we've already published an application notice for a particular program or competition in the *Federal Register* and whether the dates we list in this Forecast of Funding Opportunities are actual or estimates:

If we have published the application notice, we will list the *Federal Register* (FR) volume and page number (e.g., 65 FR 53402) after the date in column two. The other dates for that program or competition (columns four and five) are actual (as opposed to estimated) dates.

If we do not follow the date in column two with an FR citation, it means that we have yet to publish the application notice, and the dates (columns, two, four, and five) are estimates only. The actual dates will appear in the official application notice for that program or competition in the *Federal Register*.

**Date of Application Notice.** In column two of the charts, we lists the actual or estimated date for publication of the application notice for a given program or competition.

**Link to Notice.** In column three of the charts, after its publication in the *Federal Register*, we will provide a link to the application notice for a given program or competition.

**Electronic Grant Applications.** Applications may be submitted electronically, for certain programs listed in the Forecast, through the Grants Management System (G5: www.g5.gov) or through Grants.gov. The requirements and instructions for submitting applications electronically under the program identified will appear in the *Federal Register* in the application notice for these programs or competitions. It is important to note that, if a competition is using Grants.gov, it will not be using G5 and vice versa. As part of doing business with the Federal Government, applicants must have an active registration with SAM (www.SAM.gov). Therefore, we strongly recommend that you create a SAM account now (or update your account if you already have an existing one) before the application package becomes available so that once the package is posted, your registration will be complete.

## Contact Information

**Program Contact Person.** In column seven of the charts, welist the name, e-mail address, fax, and telephone numbers of the person orpersons to contact for obtaining an application or further information aboutthe programs listed. We also include this information in the actual applicationnotice for that program.

**For Users of TDD or FIRS.** If you use a telecommunicationsdevice for the deaf (TDD), you may call the TDD number, if any, listed in theindividual application notice. If a TDD number is not listed for a givenprogram, individuals who use a TDD may call the Federal Information RelayService (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339.

## Fiscal Information

**Available Funds.** The programs and funding amounts listed inthis document are based on the Secretary's best estimates at this time. TheSecretary is providing this document in order to give potential applicantsadequate time to prepare applications. Potential applicants should note,however, that the Department may cancel some of the competitions listed in thisdocument and may announce some new competitions not listed in this document.

**Estimated Average Size of Awards and Number of Awards.**Except for programs and competitions administered by the Office of SpecialEducation and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), column six lists estimatedaverage size and number of awards. The amounts and numbers referenced in thiscolumn are advisory and represent the Secretary's best estimates at this time.The average size of an award is the estimate for a single-year project or forthe first budget period of a multi-year project. In the application package foran individual program or competition, applicants will receive information aboutthe amount the Secretary intends to make available for each year of amulti-year project.

In the case of programs and competitions administered by the principalcomponents of OSERS, the charts differ with regard to the average size ofawards. For programs and competitions of this office, column six of the chartslists the average or estimated maximum size of the awards per year. Applicantswill receive further information about funding amounts in the applicationpackages for the individual programs.

Note: The Department is not bound by any of the estimates in this document.We advise you to read the actual individual application notices for theseprograms or competitions published in the *Federal Register*.

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(As of November 27, 2023)

**Chart 1 - Institute of Education Sciences (IES)**

For any application notice not already published, the dates in this chartare estimates. For further information regarding any of the followingcompetitions, please contact the person in the listing below at the Instituteof Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, 555 New Jersey Avenue NW.,Washington, DC 20208. If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf(TDD), you may call the Federal Information Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339.

**Applications Available:** Information regarding applicationpackages and forms is available at the IES web site: https://ies.ed.gov/funding/