RAISE Transportation Discretionary Grants: FY 2025 National Infrastructure Investments

Andrea Jacobson
RAISEgrants@dot.gov

RAISE Discretionary Grants (formerly BUILD Discretionary Grants and TIGER Transportation Grants) provide funding for capital investments in unmet surface transportation infrastructure needs.

RAISE funding may be used to support:

• Highway, bridge, or other road projects
• Public transportation
• Passenger and freight rail transportation
• Port infrastructure investments (including inland port infrastructure and land ports of entry)
• Surface transportation components of an airport projects
• Intermodal transportation projects
• Projects to replace or rehabilitate a culvert or prevent stormwater runoff for the purpose of improving habitat for aquatic species while advancing the goals of the RAISE program
• Projects investing in surface transportation facilities that are located on tribal land and for which title or maintenance responsibility is vested in the federal government

Eligible applicants include:

• States and the District of Columbia
• Any territory or possession of the United States
• A unit of local government
• A public agency or publicly chartered authority established by one or more states
• A special purpose district or public authority with a transportation function, including a port authority
• Federally recognized tribe or a consortium of tribes
• A transit agency
• A multi-state or multijurisdictional group of entities that are separately eligible

Award ceiling: $25,000,000
Award floor: $1,000,000 for projects located in rural areas and $5,000,000 for other areas
Total funding available: $1,500,000,000

Links to the full announcement and online application process are available through grants.gov. The application instructions will be found on the related documents tab and the program website.

Applicant webinar series

Rural Road Safety Funding at the US Department of Transportation: Example Projects from 2022