Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research Coastal Ocean Program (11.478)
Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research Coastal Ocean Program (Assistance Listing 11.478) is run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, part of the Department of Commerce. It awarded $82.5 million in 100 grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, about $825,181 per award on average. 1 funding opportunity is open or forecast now.
The typical award was $521,441. Half of the 100 awards fell between $248,756 and $981,325, and they ranged from $5,000 to $6.0 million.
- Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$82.5 million
- Grant awards100
- Typical award$521,441
- Awarded in FY 2025$14.8 million
- Size rank863 of 1824
- Type of assistanceCooperative agreements, project grants
Key findings
- Annual funding fell from $17.2 million in fiscal 2021 to $14.8 million in fiscal 2025.
- It is the 863rd largest of 1,824 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
- The 20 largest recipients received 75% of the money.
- Awards went to recipients in 28 states and territories.
What the program funds
NOAA’s Competitive Research Program (CRP), within NCCOS, funds peer-reviewed, collaborative research that produces actionable science and tools to support management and policy decisions protecting public health, coastal ecosystems, and community economies. With more than 30 years of experience, CRP addresses critical coastal challenges such as harmful algal blooms, hypoxia, coastal change, resiliency, and ecosystem-based management at regional and national scales.
Open opportunities
Rules from the program listing
Who can apply
Institutions of higher education, not-for- profit institutions, State, local and Indian tribal governments, commercial organizations and Federal agencies. Foreign researchers may apply as subawards through an eligible US entity. All applicants will be treated equally in the competitive process.
What the money can and cannot pay for
Grants may be used to fund research and interagency initiatives under specific NCCOS/CRP programs related to NOAA's mission in harmful algal blooms, hypoxia, coastal change and resiliency, and regional ecosystem research.
Matching requirements
This program has no statutory formula. Matching requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing. MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.
Award range and average, in the agency's words
$25K-$1.7M approx with a mean of approx $400K-$500K.
Examples of funded projects
Fiscal Year2016: CSCOR continued to take the lead in providing predictive tools to support ecosystem management in coastal regions such as the Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, Gulf of Maine, and the Gulf of Mexico, as well as obtain new knowledge on the prevention, control and mitigation of harmful algal blooms.Fiscal Year2017: CSCOR plans to continue to support it's harmful algal bloom (HAB) and hypoxia research by integrating ocean observing system data with modeling capabilities in order to provide research managers with seasonal HAB and hypoxia forecasts in numerous regions in the US including the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of Maine, Chesapeake Bay, Puget Sound and coastal California as well as it's regional ecosystem research to identify threats to the health of ecosystems in the Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico, and shallow and deep water coral environments in the Pacific and Caribbean. New sea level rise research will focus on San Francisco Bay, Hawaii and costal North Carolina.
Funding history and past recipients
From fiscal 2021 to 2025, Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research Coastal Ocean Program (11.478) awarded$82.5 million across 100 grant awards, an average of $825,181 per award.
Who usually wins
Colleges and universities received 58% of the money, nonprofits 29% and state and local governments 9.4%.
| Recipient type | Awards | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colleges and universities | 59 | $47.9 million | 58% |
| Nonprofits | 24 | $24.2 million | 29% |
| State and local governments | 13 | $7.8 million | 9.4% |
| Tribal governments and organizations | 2 | $1.6 million | 1.9% |
| Small businesses | 2 | $1.1 million | 1.4% |
By state
17 states have a page for this program: those that received at least $1 million or 10 awards.
| State | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 8 | $11.4 million |
| Florida | 8 | $10.5 million |
| Virginia | 11 | $10.0 million |
| Maryland | 2 | $7.2 million |
| Oregon | 9 | $6.9 million |
| California | 8 | $6.5 million |
| New York | 6 | $4.6 million |
| Texas | 4 | $3.9 million |
| Washington | 8 | $3.7 million |
| Rhode Island | 3 | $2.4 million |
| New Hampshire | 1 | $1.8 million |
| Georgia | 4 | $1.8 million |
| Alabama | 1 | $1.5 million |
| North Carolina | 4 | $1.5 million |
| Louisiana | 2 | $1.2 million |
| Michigan | 2 | $1.2 million |
| Colorado | 2 | $1.1 million |
| Alaska | 2 | $989,865 |
| Ohio | 2 | $906,741 |
| Delaware | 3 | $761,817 |
| Tennessee | 1 | $746,743 |
| Maine | 2 | $648,058 |
| District of Columbia | 2 | $450,000 |
| Hawaii | 1 | $371,483 |
| Wyoming | 1 | $249,968 |
| Connecticut | 1 | $101,208 |
| Pennsylvania | 1 | $89,932 |
| South Carolina | 1 | $16,173 |