Other Funding Opportunities

The San Mateo County Transportation Authority is making every effort to share information on external funding opportunities. Check out available grants and funding, deadlines, and more details below.

Deadline: January 18, 2024 | Learn more and apply

Strategic Partnerships Grants are available on an annual basis and through a competitive application process. Grants are for multimodal transportation planning activities such as planning for regional and interregional public transit. 

Grant Budget: Federal funds, approximately $3 million total

Grant Minimum:$75,000 for rural RTPAs; $100,000 for MPOs

Grant Maximum:$500,000

The following are eligible to apply as a primary applicant: Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) and Regional Transportation Planning Agencies (RTPAs)

The following are eligible to apply as a sub-applicant: MPOs/RTPAs; Transit Agencies; Universities and Community Colleges; Native American Tribal Governments; Cities and Counties ; Community-Based Organizations; Non-Profit Organizations (501.C.3); Other Public Entities

 

Deadline: January 18, 2024 | Learn more and apply

Sustainable Communities Competitive Grants are available on an annual basis and through a competitive application process.  Grants are for transportation planning activities such as planning for active transportation, safe routes to schools, transit services, vision zero, complete streets, freight corridors, social equity, integrated land use and transportation planning.

Grant Minimum: $50,000 for Disadvantaged or Underserved Communities, including Native American Tribal Governments and rural communities; $100,000 for all others

Grant Maximum: $700,000

Who May Apply: The following are eligible to apply as a primary applicant: MPOs with sub-applicants; RTPAs; Transit Agencies; Cities and Counties with compliant Housing Elements and completed Annual Progress Reports; Native American Tribal Governments; and, Other Public Transportation Planning Entities.

The following are eligible to apply as a sub-applicant: MPOs/RTPAs; Transit Agencies; Universities and Community Colleges; Native American Tribal Governments; Cities and Counties with compliant Housing Elements and completed Annual Progress Reports; Community-Based Organizations; Non-Profit Organizations (501.C.3); Other Public Entities

Deadline: January 18, 2024 | Learn more and apply

The State-funded Climate Adaptation Planning grants ($50 million) will support local and regional identification of transportation-related climate vulnerabilities through the development of climate adaptation plans, as well as project-level adaptation planning to identify adaptation projects and strategies for transportation infrastructure. This funding is intended to advance climate change adaptation planning on California’s transportation infrastructure, including but not limited to roads, railways, bikeways, trails, bridges, ports, and airports.

Applicants who have adaptation planning efforts underway as well as those who have not yet started adaptation work are encouraged to apply.

Eligible Applicants: Nonprofit Public Agencies, Tribal Governments

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The Bridge Investment Program (BIP) provides funding for bridge replacement, rehabilitation, preservation, and protection projects that reduce the number of bridges in poor condition, or in fair condition at risk of declining into poor condition.  

The Bridge Investment Program was established by the President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which makes the single largest dedicated investment in bridges since the construction of the Interstate highway system: a total of $40 billion over 5 years to help ensure that some of the nation’s most important bridges remain safe and operational, meet current and future traveler needs, support local economies, strengthen our supply chains, and create good-paying jobs across the country.

The Bridge Investment Program (BIP) has three categories of awards, each requiring a separate application:

  • Planning Level Projects
  • Bridge Projects (<$100 million)
  • Large Bridge Projects (>$100 million)

The deadlines for applications to be submitted are:

  • November 27, 2023, for consideration of FYs 2023 and 2024 funds.
  • August 1, 2024, for consideration of FY 2025 funds.
  • August 1, 2025, for consideration of FY 2026 funds.

Eligible Applicants: State Governments; Local Governments; Federally Recognized Tribes and Affiliated Groups; Planning and Project Organizations; U.S. Territories