Funding Opportunities
Below are resources cities can use for funding sources. If you have any resources you’d like to see added to this list, please let us know.
2025 STIC Innovation Incentive Funds
Iowa’s Statewide Transportation Innovation Council (STIC) is currently soliciting ideas for innovations and technologies eligible for STIC Incentive Funds. Projects eligible for STIC funding under this current solicitation include, but are not limited to, projects that advance the implementation of Every Day Counts (EDC) Innovations.
STIC Incentive Funds for the 2025 federal fiscal year are available up to $125,000 for awards.
Visit the 2025 STIC Incentive Funds Campaign to submit your idea.
Also available through the link:
- Further instructions for idea submissions
- Information on ideas eligible for STIC funds
- Link to the current EDC Innovations eligible for funding
- The application template required during the idea submission
Deadline for submission is January 15, 2025. Iowa’s STIC will rank ideas in February 2025. Selected ideas will be submitted to FHWA for funding consideration. The STIC will work with DOT Bureaus and Local Public Agencies to fully develop the selected project into an application to be submitted to FHWA for funding.
USDOT Funding Resources and Opportunities
The USDOT Discretionary Grants Dashboard provides communities with an overview of discretionary grant opportunities that can help meet their transportation infrastructure needs. The Dashboard also includes Federal grant programs outside of DOT that may be of particular interest to rural communities. The below list spotlights just a few of the currently open funding opportunities – visit the Grants Dashboard to find more or check out the calendar of open and upcoming grant opportunities!
Funding through the Iowa DOT
- The Iowa DOT has a wonderful resource full of information regarding state and federal programs providing transportation funding to local governments and other entities. Click here to explore the Iowa DOT’s Funding Guide.
- The Iowa DOT, Modal Transportation Bureau would like to remind cities and counties of the beneficial cost-sharing rail programs available for the repair of at-grade crossing surfaces and upgrading active warning devices at railroad crossings.
- State funded Highway-Railroad Crossing Surface Repair Program
- Federally funded Highway-Railroad Crossing Safety Program, (upgrading of signals, lights, and gates). * Note: The IIJA Bill, passed in 2021 changed the funding for this program from 90% federal funds / 10% local match to 100% federally funded.
- The Local Systems Bureau of the Iowa DOT has developed a website dealing with information describing the various programs within the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). The IIJA provides federal funding for bridges, streets, and other projects. The link is: https://iowadot.gov/local_systems/IIJA-Information. The website also provides guidance on the use of SWAP funds and the processes to undertake as the SWAP program evolves and federally funded projects are developed.