Grants

OTO Opportunities

Enhancing Mobility of Seniors and Individuals with Disabilities Program (FTA Section 5310) Call for Projects (CFP)

The Ozarks Transportation Organization (OTO) will be accepting applications for FTA Section 5310 funds from July 1, 2026, through July 31, 2026. These funds are for improving the mobility of seniors and individuals with disabilities in the OTO area. Private non-profit organizations are eligible to apply. Eligible projects are the purchase of vans and buses for transporting the elderly and individuals with disabilities. Applications will be submitted through OTO’s TIP tool which can be accessed through the OTO website and at https://portal.oto.ecointeractive.com/. All information is also available at https://www.ozarkstransportation.org/what-we-do/transit.

State Grant Opportunities

MoDOT Transportation Cost-Share Program

The program provides financial assistance to public and private applicants for state highway and bridge projects satisfying a transportation need. MoDOT matches partners investments up to fifty percent (50%) of the project cost. Set-aside funds for economic development may fund up to one hundred percent (100%) of the total project cost. MoDOT works in cooperation with the Department of Economic Development and project sponsors to determine when targeted investments can be made to create jobs and may provide up the one hundred percent (100%) of the cost. Retail development projects do not qualify as economic development projects that create jobs.

Information on the Cost Share Program and Applications can be found here:

Cost Participation and Cost Share | Missouri Department of Transportation (modot.org)

Eligible Projects: State highway and bridge projects.

Application Deadlines (Multiple Times Per Year) -

• Application Deadline - SW District Review Deadline - Thursday, July 2, 2026, Final Application Deadline - Friday, October 2, 2026

Missouri State Parks - Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership Program (ORLP)

The Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership Program (ORLP) is a grant program funded through the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. The ORLP Grant was created in 2014 as a complement to the Land and Water Conservation Fund grant program. The national competitive ORLP program provides matching grants to cities for park projects in underserved communities. These investments enable urban communities to create new outdoor recreation spaces, reinvigorate existing parks, and form connections between people and outdoors.

For the years of 2025 through 2029, the National Park Service (NPS) has issued a five-year recurring Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the ORLP Grant. These five years of ORLP grants will be based on funds made available by Congress in the current and future fiscal years. Unused funds from prior years, if available and subject to congressional action, may provide additional funds to the overall available amount. Each year, the total anticipated number of recommended projects nationwide is 25-40 projects. NPS will be accepting application for the ORLP grant twice a year. Please be advised that the NPS anticipates a minimum of a three-month review process before a project is recommended for funding. To remain eligible for funding, selected projects must submit a full ORLP application to the NPS for final review within one year of the project award announcement. Upon NPS’ final review and approval of the full application, the project will be awarded funds. Eligible applicants include state agencies and local governments such as cities; counties; and special-purpose districts, such as park districts. The state agency or local government must be located within a community that is determined to be underserved and that had a population of 25,000 or more in the 2020 census.

Information on the applications can be found here:

Grant Opportunities | Missouri State Parks

Grant Application Size: Minimum application - $300,000 and Maximum $15 million

• Application Deadline - Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Federal Grant Opportunities

Innovative Coordinated Access and Mobility (ICAM) Pilot Program

Eligible Recipients

Eligible applicants are organizations that are eligible to be recipients and subrecipients of the Enhanced Mobility of Seniors and Individuals with Disabilities Program, (defined under 49 U.S.C. 5310):

Designated recipients

States and local governmental authorities

Private nonprofit organizations

Operators of public transportation

Proposals may contain projects to be implemented by the recipient or its subrecipients.

Eligible Activities

The ICAM Pilot Program awards funds competitively to finance innovative capital projects for the transportation disadvantaged populations that improve the coordination of non-emergency medical transportation services.

Grant Application Size: $12 million in available funding for the Fiscal Year 2026. 20 percent match requirement.

• Application Deadline - Wednesday, September 9, 2026

More information can be found here: Innovative Coordinated Access and Mobility Pilot Program | FTA