National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) Land Acquisition and Construction Program for Fiscal Year 2026
- Award ceiling
- $500,000 – $3,000,000
- Closes
- Sep 30, 2026
- Last verified
- 2026-10-18
Awards $500,000 – $3,000,000 per recipient for others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Sep 30, 2026.
In one sentence
National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) Land Acquisition and Construction Program for Fiscal Year 2026 awards $500,000 – $3,000,000 per recipient, open to others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Sep 30, 2026.
- Program pool (total)
- $8,500,000Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Award ceiling (per project)
- $3,000,000Up to 10% of Fiscal Year 2026 funds reserved for critical reserve vehicle or vessel needs, awarded noncompetitively
- Award floor
- $500,000
- Typical award
- Not confirmed
- Deadline
- Sep 30, 2026
- Deadline type
- Fixed date
- Opens
- Jul 17, 2026
- Status
- Closed
- Eligible entities
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
- Geography
- Not stated
- Matching funds
- Yes
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Use of funds
- land acquisition · construction projects · facility and exhibit construction · in-situ monitoring infrastructure · planning and design projects · vehicle or vessel projects
- 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.
Source wording: “Up to 10% of Fiscal Year 2026 funds reserved for critical reserve vehicle or vessel needs, awarded noncompetitively”
Who can apply?
Not confirmed
Source field: applicant size limitEligible applicants are lead state agencies or universities designated to receive NERRS operations funding through a Memorandum of Understanding with NOAA in coastal states and territories.
We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.When does it close?
What can the money be used for?
6 categorysThe source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
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
- Yes
Who has received this funding?
325 awardsAwards on file for this programme, counted rather than modelled.
325 prior awards on file for this programme, largest first. Every row comes from the funder's own award listing; nothing here is estimated.
| Recipient | State | Amount | Fiscal year |
|---|---|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | Not stated | $89,732 | 2020 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT | Not stated | $85,785 | 2017 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $84,508 | 2024 |
| OHIO DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, OFFICE OF COASTAL MANAGEMENT | Not stated | $77,158 | 2019 |
| GREENWAY CONSERVANCY FOR THE H | Not stated | $67,665 | 2022 |
| WELLS NATIONAL ESTUARINE RESEARCH RESERV | Not stated | $65,416 | 2023 |
| FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION | Not stated | $62,742 | 2019 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | Not stated | $60,000 | 2020 |
| GREENWAY CONSERVANCY FOR THE H | Not stated | $53,749 | 2026 |
| GREENWAY CONSERVANCY FOR THE H | Not stated | $53,749 | 2024 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | Not stated | $53,665 | 2024 |
| STATE OF WASHINGTON | Not stated | $53,229 | 2021 |
| ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES | Not stated | $52,800 | 2023 |
| DEPT OF ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION | Not stated | $51,411 | 2020 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | Not stated | $49,921 | 2024 |
| COASTAL PROTECTION & RESTORATION AUTHORITY OF LOUISIANA | Not stated | $49,080 | 2023 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT | Not stated | $48,778 | 2023 |
| VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE | Not stated | $47,539 | 2023 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $47,426 | 2020 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | Not stated | $44,198 | 2023 |
| DEPT OF ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION | Not stated | $43,326 | 2018 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | Not stated | $40,000 | 2023 |
| STATE OF MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES | Not stated | $29,740 | 2023 |
| MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF MARINE RESOURCES | Not stated | $13,492 | 2023 |
| NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY | Not stated | $4,135 | 2020 |
Recipient names as published by the California Grants Portal.
What comparable notices state
71 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.
Among open records stored under Environment & Water, 71 of 193 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:
- 25th percentile$225,000
- 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?
325 awardsAwards under the same assistance listing, not under this notice.
325 federal awards on file under assistance listing 11.420, 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.
- $3,076,550UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINASC · FY2023
- $2,249,896NEW HAMPSHIRE FISH & GAMENH · FY2023
- $2,177,590UNIVERSITY OF HAWAIIHI · FY2023
- $2,089,436UNIVERSITY OF HAWAIIHI · FY2025
- $1,797,613UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTINTX · FY2022
Common questions
7 questionsEvery answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
- How much can one applicant receive?
- $500,000 – $3,000,000 per recipient. The source states: “Up to 10% of Fiscal Year 2026 funds reserved for critical reserve vehicle or vessel needs, awarded noncompetitively”.
- How much funding is available in total?
- $8,500,000 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?
- Sep 30, 2026.
- Who is eligible to apply?
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification).
- What can the funding be used for?
- land acquisition, construction projects, facility and exhibit construction, in-situ monitoring infrastructure, planning and design projects, vehicle or vessel projects, as classified by the source.
- Is matching funding required?
- Yes. This programme requires matching funds.
- Has this programme funded anyone before?
- 325 prior awards are on file for this programme, made by DOC NOAA - ERA Production. Recipients, amounts and fiscal years are listed on this page.
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