How much funding is available in total?

$26,000,000 across the whole programme. This is the total the funder has allocated, not an amount any single applicant can receive.

Is matching funding required?

No. The source states that no matching funds are required.

FederalOpenU.S. National Science Foundation

Chemical Oceanography

Award ceiling: $200,000 – $2,000,000
Closes: Aug 16, 2027
Last verified: 2026-09-04

Awards $200,000 – $2,000,000 per recipient for business, individual, nonprofit, other legal entity, public agency, tribal government, closing Aug 16, 2027.

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Chemical Oceanography awards $200,000 – $2,000,000 per recipient, open to business, individual, nonprofit, other legal entity, public agency, tribal government, closing Aug 16, 2027.

Record fields

Program pool (total): $26,000,000
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project): $2,000,000
Award floor: $200,000
Typical award: Not confirmed
Deadline: Aug 16, 2027
Deadline type: Not stated
Opens: Mar 13, 2015
Status: Open
Eligible entities: Business · Individual · Nonprofit · Other Legal Entity · Public Agency · Tribal Government
Geography: Not stated
Matching funds: No
Disbursement: Not confirmed
Application effort: Not confirmed
Use of funds: research into the chemistry of the oceans and the role of the oceans in global geochemical cycles · chemical composition, speciation, and transformation · chemical exchanges between the oceans and other components of the Earth system · internal cycling in oceans, seas, and estuaries · use of measured chemical distributions as indicators of physical, biological, and geological processes
Currency: USD

How much money is available?

Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.

Program pool (total)Across all awards this cycle

$26,000,000

Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive

$2,000,000

Who can apply?

level

federal

Derived from the source that published this record

entity

Business, Individual, Nonprofit, Other Legal Entity, Public Agency, Tribal Government

Source field: entity types

industry

Science, Technology, Research & Development

Source field: industries

use

chemical composition, speciation, and transformation, chemical exchanges between the oceans and other components of the Earth system, internal cycling in oceans, seas, and estuaries, research into the chemistry of the oceans and the role of the oceans in global geochemical cycles, use of measured chemical distributions as indicators of physical, biological, and geological processes

Source field: use of funds

size limit

Not confirmed

Source field: applicant size limit

clause text

Not confirmed

We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.

When does it close?

Aug 16, 2027343 daysDeadline type Not stated

What can the money be used for?

5 categorysThe source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.

research into the chemistry of the oceans and the role of the oceans in global geochemical cycleschemical composition, speciation, and transformationchemical exchanges between the oceans and other components of the Earth systeminternal cycling in oceans, seas, and estuariesuse of measured chemical distributions as indicators of physical, biological, and geological processes

These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.

How hard is the application?

1 fieldEffort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.

Application effort: Not confirmed
Disbursement: Not confirmed
Matching funds: No

What comparable notices state

113 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.

Among open records stored under Science, Technology, Research & Development, 113 of 353 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:

25th percentile$500,000
Median$1,500,000
75th percentile$5,000,000

A statistical estimate, not a prediction. It describes what a set of notices has published in this catalogue on the day you read it, and says nothing about what this programme will award. Records stating no ceiling are excluded rather than counted as zero, and the programme pool — what a funder has across every applicant — is a different column and is never mixed in.

Common questions

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How much can one applicant receive?: $200,000 – $2,000,000 per recipient.
How much funding is available in total?: $26,000,000 across the whole programme. This is the total the funder has allocated, not an amount any single applicant can receive.
When is the application deadline?: Aug 16, 2027.
Who is eligible to apply?: Business, Individual, Nonprofit, Other Legal Entity, Public Agency, Tribal Government.
What can the funding be used for?: research into the chemistry of the oceans and the role of the oceans in global geochemical cycles, chemical composition, speciation, and transformation, chemical exchanges between the oceans and other components of the Earth system, internal cycling in oceans, seas, and estuaries, use of measured chemical distributions as indicators of physical, biological, and geological processes, as classified by the source.
Is matching funding required?: No. The source states that no matching funds are required.

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Provenance

Source pagegrants.gov

Retrieved2026-09-04

MethodAutomated check

First seen2026-09-01

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