Federal grants to The Morton Arboretum
The Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois received $24.3 million in federal grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, across 42 awards. Its largest program was Inflation Reduction Act Urban & Community Forestry Program, with $15.1 million. In fiscal 2025 it was awarded $885,862.
From USAspending.gov award records, updated November 7, 2026.
- Grants, FY 2021 to 2025$24.3 million
- Awards42
- Awarded in FY 2025$885,862
- Largest award$15.0 million
By year
| Fiscal year | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY 2021 | 11 | $1.8 million |
| FY 2022 | 12 | $1.9 million |
| FY 2023 | 13 | $2.5 million |
| FY 2024 | 11 | $17.3 million |
| FY 2025 | 5 | $885,862 |
Programs that fund The Morton Arboretum
| Program | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Inflation Reduction Act Urban & Community Forestry Program | 2 | $15.1 million |
| Cooperative Forestry Assistance | 6 | $1.6 million |
| Forest Health Protection | 8 | $1.4 million |
| Biological Sciences | 4 | $1.3 million |
| National Leadership Grants | 3 | $1.0 million |
| Urban and Community Forestry Program | 2 | $872,527 |
| Community Project Funds - Congressionally Directed Spending | 1 | $750,000 |
| Animal Disease and Animal Care | 7 | $474,946 |
| Climate and Atmospheric Research | 1 | $457,955 |
| Museums for America | 2 | $430,813 |
Awarding agencies
| Agency | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Agriculture | 30 | $20.7 million |
| Institute of Museum and Library Services | 5 | $1.4 million |
| National Science Foundation | 4 | $1.3 million |
| Department of Commerce | 1 | $457,955 |
| Department of Energy | 1 | $299,966 |
Largest awards
| Award | Program | First action | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Building urban and community forestry resilience and capacity in under resourced communities and neighborhoods across Illinois | Inflation Reduction Act Urban & Community Forestry Program | April 10, 2024 | $15.0 million |
| Dimensions us?china: collaborative research: consequences of diversity in asian and american tree syngameons for functional variation, adaptation and symbiont biodiversity | Biological Sciences | August 4, 2021 | $808,747 |
| Comprehensive assessment of the reforestation nursery and genetic resource unit nursery inventory | Urban and Community Forestry Program | August 21, 2024 | $772,529 |
| Urban and community forestry support in the chicago region | Community Project Funds - Congressionally Directed Spending | January 5, 2023 | $750,000 |
| The morton arboretum will lead a research project to support enhanced management of botanic garden metacollections, which are the combined collections of many separate institutions stewarded collaboratively to achieve broader research and conservation purposes. A central challenge for metacollection | National Leadership Grants | July 14, 2022 | $614,090 |
| Trees and urban forests provide important services in cities around the world but grow in stressful environments that exacerbate drought stress. Management before, during, and after a drought event can improve tree and forest resilience, but many regions and cities lack robust information and commun | Climate and Atmospheric Research | September 8, 2022 | $457,955 |
| Landscape scale restoration awards are focused on restoration of priority forest landscapes that support the chiefs priorities of wildfire risk reduction, productive forests and active forest management, and responsible recreation. The projects also support priorities identified in state forest acti | Cooperative Forestry Assistance | July 15, 2025 | $410,000 |
| Infrastructure prevention and early detection of invasive plants in high priority forests of the midwest | Forest Health Protection | January 8, 2024 | $392,126 |
| The morton arboretum will develop training tools for horticulture staff at public gardens and arboreta. Based on a survey conducted in 2023, the arboretum learned that finding and retaining staff with horticulture backgrounds is increasingly difficult, and managers often do not have the time and res | National Leadership Grants | July 5, 2024 | $343,877 |
| Reu site: integrative tree science for the anthropocene at the morton arboretum -this reu site award to the morton arboretum (lisle, Illinois) will support the training of eight students during ten week intensive summer programs from 2024-2026. We recruit students nationally, emphasizing students tr | Biological Sciences | March 10, 2023 | $328,693 |
Questions people ask
How much federal grant money does The Morton Arboretum get?
$24.3 million in 42 grant awards from fiscal 2021 to 2025, as obligations reported to USAspending.gov.
Which agency gives The Morton Arboretum the most?
The Department of Agriculture, with $20.7 million in 30 awards. The Institute of Museum and Library Services and the National Science Foundation follow.
What is The Morton Arboretum's largest federal grant?
$15.0 million under Inflation Reduction Act Urban & Community Forestry Program, with its first action in the period on April 10, 2024. That counts only the money obligated in fiscal 2021 to 2025.
Which federal programs fund The Morton Arboretum?
Its largest are Inflation Reduction Act Urban & Community Forestry Program, Cooperative Forestry Assistance and Forest Health Protection.
Other grant recipients in Lisle
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