Federal recipient
National Marine Sanctuary Foundation
$26.9 Million committed in FY2025
- District
- MD-08
- Location
- 8455 Colesville RD Ste 1275, Silver Spring, MD, 20910
- UEI
- CKZPMBTVTPL6
- DUNS
- 102837361
- Also known as
- National Marine Sanctuary Foun, National Marine Sanctuary Foundatio, National Marine Sanctuary Foundatio N, NMSF
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how federal money reaches National Marine Sanctuary Foundation.
Grants
$26.6M
99%
Contracts
$177,000
<1%
Other
$125,000
<1%
Top agencies
The agencies that pay National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, by dollars committed.
Top programs
The assistance programs behind National Marine Sanctuary Foundation's money, by dollars committed.
What they sell
Top products and services National Marine Sanctuary Foundation sells the government under contract, by dollars committed.
Special Studies/Analysis- Oceanological
$564,231
Lease or Rental of Equipment- Ship and Marine Equipment
$257,227
Education, Training, Employment, & Social SVCS R&D SVCS; Education SVCS R&D; Basic Research
Awards
The largest individual awards to National Marine Sanctuary Foundation.
Where the money went next
The sub-recipients National Marine Sanctuary Foundation passed prime-award money on to. Sub-awards are prime-reported and may lag or under-report.
Gulf of Maine Research Institute
$5.5M
14 sub-awards
Ocean Exploration Trust, Inc.
$1.4M
3 sub-awards
Lehigh University
$1.4M
Competition
How many of National Marine Sanctuary Foundation's priced contract actions drew exactly one offer — a competition on paper with a single bidder. A high share doesn't prove anything improper; it's a flag worth a second look.
Single offer
13
100%
What budget it comes from
The Treasury accounts National Marine Sanctuary Foundation's awards draw on. Dollars committed on awards that span more than one account are split evenly across them.
Operations, Research and Facilities, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Commerce
013-1450
$100.1M
22 awards
Procurement, Acquisition and Construction, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Commerce
013-1460
$34.0M
4 awards
Committed by fiscal year
Dollars committed to National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, per fiscal year (FY2018–FY2026).
* 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 to read these numbers
- Committed to this recipient
The dollars agencies committed to them — signed contracts and awarded grants — counted in the year each action happened.
- Lifetime vs. a single year
The profile sections cover the recipient's full history on record; the headline total and the flow bar reflect the fiscal year picked at the top.
- “Active in FY X”
A fiscal-year award list shows every award with at least one action that year, at its full lifetime value — a different lens from the by-year chart, which splits each award across the years it was committed.
- Names come raw
Recipient names appear exactly as filed, and the government doesn't standardize them, so one organization can show up under a few spelling variants — worth checking near-duplicates before sizing one up.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments
