TIP Grants

• Fiscal Year (FY) 2025-2026 Notice of Funding Opportunity Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements Program (CRISI)  – applications due June 25, 2026

The CRISI Program assists in funding eligible projects for the purpose of investing in a wide range of projects within the United States to improve railroad safety, efficiency, and reliability; mitigate congestion at both intercity passenger rail and freight rail chokepoints to support more efficient travel and goods movement; and enhance multi-modal connections.

• NOFO
• Minimum Award: No limit
• Maximum Award: No limit
• Minimum Project Size: N/A
• Matching Funds: 20%
• Eligible Applicants: States; Group of States; Interstate Compact; Public agency or publicly chartered authority established by one or more States; Political subdivision of a State; Amtrak or another rail carrier that provides intercity rail passenger transportation; Class II railroad or Class III railroad, a holding company of a Class II or Class III railroad, or an association representing a Class II or III railroad; A federally recognized Indian Tribe; Any rail carrier or rail equipment manufacturer in partnership with at least one of the entities described in (1) through (5); Transportation Research Board together with any entity with which it contracts in the development of rail-related research, including cooperative research programs; University transportation center engaged in rail-related research; or Non-profit labor organization representing a class or craft of employees of rail carriers or rail carrier contractors.

• Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 – 2026 Bridge Investment Program, Large Bridge Project Grants  – applications due 6/15/2026 (Planning); 6/29/2026 (Bridge Project)

The purpose of this notice is to solicit applications for two funding categories: (1) Planning and (2) Bridge Project grants (a project with total eligible costs not greater than $100 million) for awards under the Bridge Investment Program (BIP). This notice establishes a “rolling application” process for Planning and Bridge Project applications by providing the schedule, requirements, and selection process for such projects for the remaining available amounts of the BIP funding provided by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) for FY 2023 through FY 2026, which total up to $9.7 billion (see section B.1 for details for funds available for each fiscal year). FHWA is soliciting applications for the other BIP project category in a separate NOFO available on Grants.gov, listing number 693JJ323NF00019: Large Bridge Project (a project with total eligible costs greater than $100 million). A total of up to $3.0 billion of FY 2025 and FY 2026 remains available for Large Bridge Project grants and Bridge Project grants.

• NOFO
• Minimum Award: $50,000
• Maximum Award: $80,000,000
• Minimum Project Size: N/A
• Matching Funds: Yes
• Eligible Applicants: 1. A State or a group of States; 2. A metropolitan planning organization that serves an urbanized area (as designated by the Bureau of the Census) with a population over 200,000; 3. A unit of local government or a group of local governments; 4. A political subdivision of a State or local government; 5. A special purpose district or a public authority with a transportation function; 6. A Federal Land Management Agency; 7. A Tribal government or a consortium of Tribal governments; and 8. A multistate or multijurisdictional group of entities.

• FY 2026 Pilot Program for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Planning  – applications due July 10, 2026

The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the opportunity to apply for approximately $28.5 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 funding. The Pilot Program for TOD Planning helps support FTA’s mission of improving public transportation for America’s communities by providing funding to local communities to integrate land use and transportation planning around a new fixed guideway or core capacity improvement project. Per statute, any comprehensive or site specific planning funded through the program must examine ways to improve economic development and ridership, foster multimodal connectivity and accessibility, improve transit access for pedestrian and bicycle traffic, engage the private sector, identify infrastructure needs, and enable mixed-use development near transit stations.

• NOFO
• Minimum Award: No limit
• Maximum Award: No limit
• Minimum Project Size: N/A
• Matching Funds: 20%
• Eligible Applicants: State (including territories, Washington, D.C.) and local governmental entities that are an FTA grant recipient (i.e., existing direct or designated recipients) as of the publication date of this NOFO.; The Applicant must be the project sponsor of a new fixed guideway capital project or a core capacity improvement project, an entity with land use planning authority for the study area, or both.; The Applicant must collaborate with the associated transit project sponsor and entities with land use planning authority for the study area to implement the planning efforts, as applicable.

• Fiscal Year 2024 & 2025 Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC)  – applications due July 23, 2026

The Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grant program makes federal funds available to states, U.S. territories, federally recognized tribal governments, and local governments for hazard mitigation activities. It does so by recognizing the need to upgrade and modernize the nation’s infrastructure against the growing risks to communities and the need for natural hazard risk mitigation activities that promote resilience with respect to natural hazards.

Certain awards made under this funding opportunity may be funded, in whole or in part, by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). The IIJA appropriates billions of dollars to FEMA to promote resilient infrastructure, respond to the impacts of natural weather disasters, and equip our nation with the resources to combat its most pressing natural hazard threats.

BRIC aims to shift the focus of federal investments away from reactive post-disaster spending towards proactive infrastructure-focused hazard mitigation. For this funding opportunity, the program prioritizes investment in infrastructure and construction projects that deliver immediate, measurable risk reduction to communities vulnerable to natural hazards. BRIC emphasizes the adoption and enforcement of modern building codes and limits capability- and capacity-building activities to those directly tied to infrastructure resilience, such as building code adoption and enforcement.

Applicants can submit applications for this funding opportunity through FEMA Grants Outcomes (GO).

• NOFO
• Minimum Award: N/A
• Maximum Award: $150,000,000
• Minimum Project Size: N/A
• Matching Funds: Yes
• Eligible Applicants: State governments; City or township governments; County governments; Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments); Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification); Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)

• FY 2026 Notice of Funding Opportunity: Public Transportation on Indian Reservations Program; Tribal Transit Program  – applications due August 25, 2026

The Public Transportation on Indian Reservations Program, also referred to as Tribal Transit Program (TTP), provides funds for planning, public transportation capital projects, operating costs, job access reverse commute projects, and the acquisition of public transportation service to tribes located in rural areas (those with a population under 50,000). TTP is funded as a takedown from the Section 5311 program, and is a set-aside from the Formula Grants for Rural Areas program that includes a formula program and a competitive grant program.

• NOFO
• Minimum Award: No limit
• Maximum Award: No limit; $50,000 (Planning)
• Minimum Project Size: N/A
• Matching Funds: N/A
• Eligible Applicants: Federally recognized Indian tribes and Alaska Native Villages, groups, or communities as identified by the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). The list of federally Recognized tribes can be found on the Federal Register website.

• Fiscal Year (FY) 2025-2026 Notice of Funding Opportunity Railroad Crossing Elimination (Crossing Safety) Program  – applications due June 5, 2026

The Crossing Safety Program intends to fund highway-rail or pathway-rail grade crossing improvement projects, including but not limited to elimination projects, that improve safety and mobility of people and goods. Such projects will improve American rail infrastructure to enhance rail safety, improve the health and safety of communities, eliminate highway-rail and pathwayrail grade crossings that are frequently blocked by trains, or reduce the impacts that freight movement and railroad operations may have on underserved communities.

This program was authorized in Section 22305 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) (49 U.S.C. § 22909). Funding under this NOFO was made available by the FY 2025 and 2026 Advance Appropriations in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), Div. J, Tit VIII, Pub. L. No. 117-58 (November 15, 2021).

• NOFO
• Minimum Award: $1,000,000 (No minimum for Planning projects)
• Maximum Award: $229,305,600 (for entire State)
• Minimum Project Size: N/A
• Matching Funds: 20%
• Eligible Applicants: States, including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and other United States territories and possessions; Political subdivision of a state; Federally recognized Indian Tribe; A unit of local government or a group of local governments; A public port authority; A metropolitan planning organization; A group of the entities described above.