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NPS Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Units (CESU) Master Cooperative Agreements

Award ceiling
Not stated
Closes
Dec 31, 2027
Last verified
2026-10-24

Per-recipient award not stated for others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Dec 31, 2027.

Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Environment & Water

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NPS Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Units (CESU) Master Cooperative Agreements does not state a per-recipient award amount, open to others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Dec 31, 2027.

Record fields
Program pool (total)
Not confirmed
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project)
Not stated
NPS obligates between $30M and $40M in CESU cooperative agreements agency wide annually
Award floor
Not stated
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Dec 31, 2027
Deadline type
Fixed date
Opens
Dec 22, 2022
Status
Open
Eligible entities
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Geography
Not stated
Matching funds
No
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Application effort
Not confirmed
Use of funds
research · technical assistance · education and capacity building
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
Not stated
Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
Not stated

Source wording: “NPS obligates between $30M and $40M in CESU cooperative agreements agency wide annually”

Who can apply?

level
Derived from the source that published this record
entity
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Source field: entity types
industry
Source field: industries
use
education and capacity building, research, technical assistance
Source field: use of funds
size limit

Not confirmed

Source field: applicant size limit
clause text

All applicants must be a partner of the CESU network prior to being considered for an award of a master cooperative agreement under this announcement. Information on how to join the CESU network can be found at: www.cesu.org.

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

When does it close?

Dec 31, 2027433 daysDeadline type Fixed date

Applications may be submitted at any time up until the closing date

What can the money be used for?

3 categorys
The source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
researchtechnical assistanceeducation and capacity building

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 field
Effort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
Application effort
Not confirmed
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Matching funds
No

Who has received this funding?

2132 awards
Awards on file for this programme, counted rather than modelled.

2132 prior awards on file for this programme, largest first. Every row comes from the funder's own award listing; nothing here is estimated.

RecipientStateAmountFiscal year
SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITYNot stated$5,8952023
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITYNot stated$5,7672018
VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND RECREATIONNot stated$5,6862020
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMINot stated$5,6402018
NORTHLAND COLLEGENot stated$5,6172024
FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITYNot stated$5,1622021
FORT LEWIS COLLEGENot stated$4,9992022
TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITYNot stated$4,8952021
FLORIDA A & M UNIVERSITYNot stated$4,7462021
INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ECOLOGYNot stated$4,4772023
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIANot stated$3,8392021
APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITYNot stated$3,0322021
SEWARD ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MARINE SCIENCENot stated$3,0002025
CLEMSON UNIVERSITYNot stated$2,9502016
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITYNot stated$2,9382025
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONANot stated$2,6922023
ARCHAEOLOGY SOUTHWESTNot stated$2,6442020
FORT LEWIS COLLEGENot stated$1,5142020
AMERICAN SAMOA COMMUNITY COLLEGENot stated$7002018
HERITAGE LANDS COLLECTIVENot stated$02020
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYNot stated$02020
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYNot stated$02017
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKSNot stated$02024
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKSNot stated$02023
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVISNot stated$02019
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORENot stated$02022
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORENot stated$02022
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANANot stated$02021
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEENot stated$02021
UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDANot stated$02020
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITYNot stated$02018
WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITYNot stated$02021

Recipient names as published by the California Grants Portal.

What comparable notices state

69 records
Stated ceilings on open records in the same industry.

Among open records stored under Environment & Water, 69 of 191 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:

  • 25th percentile$200,000
  • Median$1,000,000
  • 75th percentile$4,000,000

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.

Who has won this programme before?

2132 awards
Awards under the same assistance listing, not under this notice.

2132 federal awards on file under assistance listing 15.945, the programme this notice is published under. These are not awards made under this notice — a listing covers every year the programme runs, and awards under an open notice do not exist yet.

Every award under this programme

Common questions

5 questions
Every answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
When is the application deadline?
Dec 31, 2027. Applications may be submitted at any time up until the closing date
Who is eligible to apply?
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification).
What can the funding be used for?
research, technical assistance, education and capacity building, as classified by the source.
Is matching funding required?
No. The source states that no matching funds are required.
Has this programme funded anyone before?
2132 prior awards are on file for this programme, made by National Park Service. Recipients, amounts and fiscal years are listed on this page.

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Provenance
Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-10-24
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-09-02
Assistance listing15.945

The official page governs. If the source and this record disagree, the source is correct — programmes change their terms between our checks, so confirm every figure above before you apply.