Assistance program
Cooperative Institute (Inter-Agency Funded Activities)
$255.1 Million committed in FY2021–FY2026
- Agency
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Commerce, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 11.405
- What it does
- To increase the effectiveness of research and develop innovative approaches to education in the environmental sciences by facilitating cooperation between government, university, and nonprofit research institutions.
- Who benefits
- Individual/Family; Profit organization; Private nonprofit institution/organization; Quasi-public nonprofit organization; Other private institution/organization; Scientist/Researchers; Sponsored organization; Public nonprofit institution/organization; Other public institution/organization; Organizations with interests in support of the NOAA mission to understand and predict changes in Earth's environment and conserve and manage coastal and marine resources to meet the nations' economic, social, and environmental needs.
- Who applies
- Single or multiple non-federal public and private non-profit universities, colleges, and research institutions that collectively offer accredited graduate level degree-granting programs in NOAA related sciences.
- Authorized by
- 118 St at. 71, Fish and Wildlife Act, 16 USC Code 753a. Navigation and Navigable Waters, 33 USC Code 1442. Weather Service Organic Act, 15 USC Code 313. Cooperative Agreements/Reimbursement to Further NOAAs Mission, 15 USC Code 1540. National Climate Program Act, 15 USC Code 2904…
- Program site
- https://www.ci.noaa.gov ↗
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.
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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
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