Grants

OTO Opportunities

No open opportunities at this time.

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 - Tuesday, January 5, 2027, Final Application Deadline - Monday, April 5, 2027

Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) – 2027 Grant Round

• Purpose: Supports the acquisition, development, and renovation of public outdoor recreation sites.
• Eligible Applicants: Local governments, cities, counties, and public-school districts.
• Examples of Eligible Projects: Playgrounds, ball fields, pools and water parks, trails, camping, and picnic facilities, boating and fishing facilities, and passive recreation areas.
• Funding: Minimum federal grant request of $25,000 ($50,000 minimum total project cost).
  • LWCF has historically capped the grant award at $500,000 per project.
• Match: 50% match required.
• Deadline: Application packets must be postmarked by November 13, 2026.
• More Information/Application: Missouri State Parks – LWCF Grants

Federal Grant Opportunities

Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-saving Transportation Program (PROTECT)

• Application Due: October 9, 2026
• Eligible applicants: States, MPO’s, local governments, and public transportation agencies
• The PROTECT Competitive Grant Program funds projects that improve the resilience of the surface transportation system, including highways, public transportation, ports, and intercity passenger rail.
• Program goals include protecting: surface transportation assets by making them more resilient; communities through resilience improvements and strategies that allow for the continued operation or rapid recovery of surface transportation systems; coastal infrastructure; and natural infrastructure that protects and enhances surface transportation assets.
  • Resilience Improvements to improve the ability of an existing surface transportation asset to withstand one or more elements of a weather event or natural disaster, or to increase the resilience of surface transportation infrastructure from the impacts of changing conditions, such as sea level rise, flooding, wildfires, extreme weather events, and other natural disasters
  • Community Resilience and Evacuation Route activities that strengthen and protect evacuation routes that are essential for providing and supporting evacuations caused by emergency events, including: resilience improvements if they will improve evacuation routes, and projects to ensure the ability of the evacuation route to provide safe passage during an evacuation and reduce the risk of damage to evacuation routes as a result of future emergency events; or
  • At-Risk Coastal Infrastructure activities to strengthen, stabilize, harden, elevate, relocate or otherwise enhance the resilience of highway and non-rail infrastructure, including: bridges, roads, pedestrian walkways, and bicycle lanes, and associated infrastructure, such as culverts and tide gates to protect highways that are subject to, or face increased long-term future risks of, a weather event, a natural disaster, or changing conditions, including coastal flooding, coastal erosion, wave action, storm surge, or sea level rise, in order to improve transportation and public safety and to reduce costs by avoiding larger future maintenance or rebuilding costs.
  • A project carried out by a State with PROTECT Formula Program funds may include the use of natural infrastructure or the construction or modification of storm surge, flood protection, or aquatic ecosystem restoration elements that are functionally connected to a transportation improvement. There is no minimum and no maximum project size.
  • Match: Federal Share 80%, Local Share 20%
  • Project information can be found here: https://www.transportation.gov/rural/grant-toolkit/promoting-resilient-operations-transformative-efficient-and-cost-saving