Assistance program
Challenge Cost Share
$1.1 Million committed in FY2018–FY2023
- Agency
- National Park Service, Interior, Department of the
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements;Direct Payments for Specified Use
- CFDA number
- 15.943
- What it does
- BEGINNING 8/20/2025 DO NOT USE THIS ASSISTANCE LISTING - EFFORTS UNDERWAY TO ARCHIVE/RETIRE IN 2026. This program does not award grants or cooperative agreements. The Challenge Cost Share Program is intended to support specific National Park Service mission-related projects that align with goals of local project partners. National Park Service staff will work with local project partners to achieve these mutually beneficial outcomes. This partnership challenge seeks to reward proposals that have the best prospects to build enduring benefits and develop new partnerships.
- Who benefits
- General public, trail system users, and organizations with conservation missions.
- Who applies
- State, local, or tribal government or other public entity, an educational institution, or a private nonprofit organization.
- Authorized by
- 54 USC §101701(b) Challenge Cost-share Agreement Authority.
- Program site
- http://www.nps.gov/ccsp ↗
Committed by fiscal year
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