Grants

OTO Opportunities

2025 OTO Sidewalk/Trail Funding Call For Projects

The OTO has issued a Call for Projects for the 2025 OTO Sidewalk/Trail Funding. The estimated amount of funding available through FY 2027 is about $3.2 million The amount awarded through this call for projects will be dependent upon the types of applications received.

OTO will set aside 10% of the available CRP/TAP funding for Sidewalk and Trail Engineering projects. These projects will only include funding for preliminary engineering (PE)/design of a sidewalk or trail project and will be evaluated separately with the same scoring criteria.

Eligible Projects: Construction, planning, and design of transportation-related bicycle and pedestrian off-road trails and sidewalks, and associated infrastructure: crosswalk enhancements, including under- and over-passes.

Project Sponsors:

• Local government
  
• transit agency
• regional transportation authority
• school district, local education agency, or school
• non profit entity

Application Deadline: May 1, 2025 @ 4:00 pm

Applications have to be submitted online through OTO’s TIP tool. The guidebook includes a description on how to create and account and the 2025 OTO Sidewalk/Trail Funding Application Walkthrough provides a step-by-step guide with screenshots on how to submit an application.

Please see the 2025 OTO Sidewalk/Trail Funding Call For Projects Guidebook for more information: OTO Sidewalk and Trail CFP Guidebook Spring2025

2025 OTO Sidewalk/Trail Funding Application Walkthrough can be found here: Screenshot Walkthrough 2025

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 - Friday, January 11, 2025, Final Application Deadline - Friday, April 11, 2025

Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership Program (ORLP)

Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MoDOR) is now accepting applications under the ORLP program for projects that create new outdoor recreation spaces, reinvigorate existing parks and form connections between people and outdoors.

Eligible applicants include state agencies and local governments, including special purpose 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.

Awards will range from $300,000 to $15 million. 50% non-Federal cost share required.

Application Deadline: Bi-Annual, next deadline is August 19, 2025

https://mostateparks.com/page/... The Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Division of State Parks has been designated the lead funding agency in Missouri.

The federal NOFO can be found here: https://grants.gov/search-resu...

MoDOT Freight Enhancement Program FY 2026

Freight Enhancement funds must be used for transportation purposes other than roads. Freight enhancement funds are limited to capital projects such as the construction of improvements or purchase of equipment that support the 2022 State Freight and Rail Plan’s identified goals objectives, strategies, actions or needs.

Award size: $1,750,000 available (max $700,000 for a projects) with 20% local match. Projects must be delivered by June 15, 2026.

Applications: due Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Application information can be found here: https://www.modot.org/media/51...

Federal Grant Opportunities

FY 2025 Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A)

The SS4A program supports the U.S. Department of Transportation's (USDOT) National Roadway Safety Strategy and their goal of zero roadway deaths using a Safe System Approach.

Implementation Grants provide Federal Funds to implement projects and strategies identified in an Action Plan to address a roadway safety problem. Eligible projects and strategies can be infrastructural, behavioral, and/or operational activities.

Implementation Grants may also include supplemental planning and demonstration activities to inform an existing Action Plan, and project-level planning, design, and development activities.

Applicants must have an eligible comprehensive safety action plan (referred to as an “Action Plan”) to apply for an Implementation Grant. OTO jurisdiction's projects must be shown in the OTO Safety Action Plan.

Eligible Projects:

• Conduct supplemental safety planning to enhance an Action Plan.
• Carry out demonstration activities to inform the development of, or an update to, an Action Plan.
• Perform planning, design, and development activities for projects and strategies identified in an Action Plan.
• Implement projects and strategies identified in an Action Plan that address roadway safety problems.

Award Size:

• Implementation Grants - $2. 5 million to $25 million
• Planning and Demonstration Grants - $100 k to $ 5 million

Application information can be found here: Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) Grant Program | US Department of Transportation

Application Due Date: Thursday, June 26, 2025

Applications must be submitted via VALID EVAL, an online submission proposal system used by USDOT.