As of May 2025, the Coordinating Council on Access and Mobility (CCAM) updated the CCAM Program Inventory, which identifies 132 federal programs that may provide funding for human services transportation for people with disabilities, older adults, and/or individuals of low income. Also included in the third dropdown above is the updated CCAM Federal Fund Braiding Guide, which now includes all 132 federal programs listed in the CCAM Program Inventory. Please note, while transportation may not be the primary mission of certain programs, transportation services contribute to the missions of these programs, which focus on improving health, education, labor, and other areas.

• What’s Included: The CCAM Program Inventory includes detailed program information, such as Assistance Listing Numbers (formerly Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA)), statutory references, types of recipients and beneficiaries, and eligible transportation activities.  
• What’s New: In coordination with CCAM partners, the CCAM members responded to stakeholder input, creating new data elements for the updated program inventory. New information in the updated CCAM Program Inventory includes local match requirements and Federal fund braiding eligibility—to learn more about Federal fund braiding, view the Relevant Resource section below.
  • Also included in the updates are definitions for the data elements—these definitions are not for official use and are intended only to provide further clarity. 

The CCAM Program Inventory Summary document, available in PDF and Excel formats, contains limited program details, and is formatted for easy printing. 

In 2024 and 2025, as outlined in the 2023 – 2026 CCAM Strategic Plan, the CCAM undertook an effort to update the 2019 CCAM Program Inventory. The update process included conducting preliminary research to find publicly available information on each federal program and then coordinating with CCAM agency representatives and program managers, via internal efforts and working sessions, to validate and collect program data. 

CCAM Program Inventory Timeline 

• In 2004, the CCAM was established by Executive Order 13330: Human Services Transportation Coordination. In 2005, as outlined in the Report to the President: Human Service Transportation Coordination Executive Order 13330, the CCAM gathered statutes and regulations from 62 federal programs identified by the General Accounting Office (GAO) in Appendix II of GAO-03-698T, Transportation-Disadvantaged Populations: Many Federal Programs Fund Transportation Services.  
• In 2008, the CCAM identified 64 federal programs listed in Appendix A - Federal Programs Providing Transportation Assistance of FTA’s Charter Service Regulation (49 C.F.R. Part 604), which implements 49 U.S.C. 5323(d) and protects private charter operators from unauthorized competition from FTA grant recipients. Charter service occurs when public transit operators provide exclusive use of a vehicle to an individual or group for a price. The charter regulations were implemented to ensure that transit agencies, subsidized with federal money, do not unfairly compete with privately owned bus companies. However, there is a CCAM Program exception for organizations who receive funding from a CCAM program (Appendix A), which allows FTA recipients to provide charter service to clients of human service organization without violating the Charter Rule.  
• In 2012 the GAO identified 80 federal programs in Appendix II of GAO-12-647, Transportation-Disadvantaged Populations.   
• In 2019, the CCAM identified 130 federal programs in the CCAM Program Inventory.
• In 2025, the CCAM identified 132 federal programs in the updated CCAM Program Inventory.

Relevant Resource 

CCAM Federal Fund Braiding Guide (2025)

Federal fund braiding for local match allows grant recipients to use funds from one federal program to meet the match requirements of another. Included in the third dropdown above, the CCAM Federal Fund Braiding Guide defines federal fund braiding for local match and provides information to potential grantees as well as CCAM agency program managers on acceptable federal fund braiding arrangements on transportation-related projects. 

Note: There are two sides to cost-share from a transactional perspective: the program receiving the cost share, and the program(s) contributing the cost share. In general, if either the receiving or contributing program statute provides specific authorization related to using federal funds as cost share from, or for, other federal programs, it would be allowable (at least absent an express prohibition on using federal funds as a cost share in the other applicable program statute). Affirmative statutory authorization would need to be identified in one statute or the other to overcome the default prohibition against this practice under OMB’s cost principles in 200.403(f). (Provided by OMB Deputy Controller, Office of Federal Financial Management and COFFA Chairperson on 10/11/2024).