Assistance program
Soil Survey
$21.4 Million committed in FY2019–FY2026
- Agency
- Natural Resources Conservation Service, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Dissemination of Technical Information
- CFDA number
- 10.903
- What it does
- To produce and maintain up to date soil survey information (maps, data sets, soil interpretations, and reports) of the United States for widespread use by interested agencies, organizations, and individuals and to assist in the use of this information.
- Who benefits
- All individuals and groups that have a need for soil survey information are eligible to receive assistance.
- Who applies
- Eligible applicants are typically limited to institutions of higher education within the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit network. Proposed projects are expected to have durations of 2-4 years, with funding amounts ranging from $50,000 to $700,000 per award.
- Authorized by
- The Soil Information Assistance for Community Planning and Resource Development Act of 1966
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how this program's money is paid out.
Grants
$21.4M
100%
Other
$75.0K
<1%
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
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- Some recipients aren't itemized
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- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments