Sacramento Regional Transit District

Sacramento Regional Transit District (SACRT), a California-based local government transit authority, is a federal grant recipient that operates bus and light rail transit systems serving the Sacramento metropolitan area, receiving the majority of its federal funding from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) under formula and project grant programs.

SACRT competes as a prime recipient on 123 of 125 recent federal grant awards (98%), with negligible subrecipient activity. The organization is not a federal contractor; it receives operating and capital grants exclusively. Its customer concentration is extreme: the Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration accounts for 104 of 125 awards (83% of volume), with the remaining portfolio split among the Federal Emergency Management Agency (8 awards), the Department of Justice (4 awards for trustee-related work), and the Department of the Air Force (4 awards). The two value rankings diverge significantly: while FTA dominates by award count, the Department of Justice awards carry a combined potential value of $26 thousand across four grants — a data artifact suggesting those awards may be nominal or administrative in nature. The FTA portfolio carries the operational and capital weight.

SACRT's recent grant work spans three primary FTA programs. Under the Buses and Bus Facilities Formula, Competitive, and Low or No Emissions Programs (CFDA 20.526), SACRT received a $96.1 million award on August 20, 2026, for replacement compressed natural gas buses, McClellan Bus Maintenance Facility rehabilitation design and construction, and workforce development training for bus maintenance and operations staff, with performance extending through March 31, 2031. Under the Federal Transit Formula Grants program (CFDA 20.507), SACRT received a $23.963 million award on July 23, 2026, for one year of preventive maintenance (July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2027), a $16.2 million award on August 29, 2025, for procurement of six low-floor replacement light rail vehicles, and a $564,781 award on July 23, 2026, for final engineering and design of the future Horn light rail station. Under the State of Good Repair Grants Program (CFDA 20.525), SACRT received a $90.2 million award on January 5, 2024, for purchase of approximately 16 new low-floor light rail vehicles, and a $30.6 million award on September 10, 2025, for light rail station modifications and upgrades. Under the Community Project Funding Congressionally Directed Spending program (CFDA 20.534), SACRT received $1.875 million on March 26, 2025, and $1.0625 million on July 16, 2026, for light rail station conversions and a new Dos Rios station. SACRT also received $106.7 million in American Rescue Plan Act operating and preventive-maintenance funds through August 24, 2022, and a $1.74 million Rail and Transit Security Grant from FEMA on September 2, 2022.

SACRT acts as both prime recipient and pass-through entity for subrecipients. El Dorado Transit and the City of Placerville appear as subrecipients on multiple awards for bus replacement and station construction. Paratransit received subrecipient funding for operating assistance and one-stop call center operations.

Activity has remained modest and flat over the past five years (4 awards in 2022, 2 in 2023, 5 in 2024, 6 in 2025, 4 in 2026), with six awards reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. The combined potential value across all 125 awards in the source is listed as $26 thousand, a data artifact; the source simultaneously reports $1.87 billion in obligated dollars (7272226% of potential value), indicating that obligated amounts significantly exceed stated potential-value ceilings and that the potential-value field is not reliable for SACRT's portfolio. SACRT's footprint is entirely grant-based, with no involvement in federal contracting or contract vehicles.