Assistance program
Cooperative Research and Training Programs – Resources of the National Park System
$441.9 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- National Park Service, Interior, Department of the
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements
- CFDA number
- 15.945
- What it does
- To establish and maintain cooperative study units, in partnership with federal, state, and local governments, tribes, nonprofit organizations, and institutions of higher education, to facilitate multi-disciplinary science and integrated information products related to the resources of the National Park System. To maintain a comprehensive network of cooperative study units that provide full geographic and topical coverage for research, technical assistance, and educational activities related to the resources within units of the National Park System and their larger regions.
- Who benefits
- State and local governments, federally recognized Indian tribal governments, public/private nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, and the public.
- Who applies
- State and local governments, federally recognized Indian tribal governments, public/private nonprofit organizations, nonprofit institutions of higher education, and individuals.
- Authorized by
- 54 U.S.C. § 101702(b) Cooperative Research and Training Programs
- Program site
- http://www.cesu.org ↗
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.
Direct payments
$57.9K
<1%
Grants
$441.9M
100%
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