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Surface Transportation Block Grant Program (Highway Trust Fund Formula)
Formula funds distributed through state DOTs and metropolitan planning organizations. Cities access through their MPO's Transportation Improvement Program.
Whether your city can win this comes down to hard rules — population, designation, match capacity. Run your city and our AI checks it against the rules below in about 8 minutes.
Program facts
- Typical award
- $500K – $50M
- Non-federal match
- 20% (verify basis)
- Eligible entity
- U.S. cities & local governments
- Application window
- Continuous via MPO/state DOT programming cycles.
- Typical prep time
- 4–12 weeks
- Statutory authority
- 23 U.S.C. §133
Who is eligible for Surface Transportation Block Grant Program (Highway Trust Fund Formula)?
These are the hard rules we check against. If one fails, the program is ineligible — the AI never overrides a rule.
- Cities are eligible applicants.
State pass-through program; cities apply via state DOT or MPO. Amounts and timing approximate; verify directly with administering agency.
How Strategic Pursuit scores this program
Run a city dossier and our AI cross-checks ACS demographics, 5-year USAspending award history, FEMA disaster history, and CEJST/Justice40 + HUD designations against this program's rules. You get a clear eligibility, strategic, and competitive answer — with the city's own hard evidence ready to anchor the narrative — instead of a generic match badge. And if it's a no-go, you'll know before you spend the month.
The dossier isn't the AI's guesswork — eligibility is decided by the rules, and the numbers come straight from official sources. The answer your reviewer will check line by line.
No credit card. 30-day trial, 3 dossiers, 1 seat.
Related programs
- RAISE Discretionary Grants (DOT)$1M – $25M
- INFRA Grants (Nationally Significant Multimodal Freight & Highway Projects) (DOT)$25M – $200M
- MEGA / National Infrastructure Project Assistance (DOT)$100M – $500M
- Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) (DOT)$200K – $25M
- Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program (DOT)$500K – $100M
- EDA Public Works Program (EDA)$600K – $30M
Award ranges, match percentages, and windows are approximate.