Assistance program
NOAA Mission-Related Education Awards
$63.6 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Commerce, Department of
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements;Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 11.008
- What it does
- The objectives of the overall program are to facilitate educational activities related to NOAA's mission of science, service and stewardship. Awards may support the education of children, youth, and/or adults through informal or formal (K-16) education projects that address one or more of NOAA's mission goals and the objectives of the NOAA Education Strategic Plan for 2021-2040 (see https://www.noaa.gov/education/explainers/2021-2040-noaa-education-strategic-plan).
- Who benefits
- This program benefits other Federal, state, and local governments, tribal entities, public and private universities and colleges, for-profit and nonprofit organizations, and the general public. Individual Notices of Funding Opportunities may have more restrictive eligibility requirements.
- Who applies
- Eligible applicants include federal, state, and local governments, tribal entities, universities and colleges, nonprofit and for-profit organizations and/or individuals. Individual Notices of Funding Opportunities may have more restrictive eligibility requirements.
- Authorized by
- America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science Reauthorization Act of 2010 ("America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010")
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.
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
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- 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