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National Park Service Challenge Cost Share
15.943
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.
This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the
administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.
For more information on each of these data sources, please see the
About the data page.
No information available. Funds were awarded to a non-profit organization as a pass-through organization to distribute sub-awards.
Funding was issued to two Recipients.
Data Not Available
A number of parks received funding and partnered with non-Federal entities to bring outreach programs to the parks.
NPS parks partnered with non-profit and other community organizations to bring mission related programming to the wider vistorship at the individual parks.
Parks partnered directly with non-profit and community organizations to provide programing.
NPS partners with organizations local to parks and historic sites funding 50% of initiatives that directly benefit the park. Funds are not administered as grants or cooperative agreements.
The NPS Cost Share Program (CCSP) awarded 17 conservation and outdoor recreation projects in FY 2024. ONPS contributed $361,000; partners direct dollar contribution was $614,744 and partners in-kind contribution was $239,234. Total matching funds were $853,978. The ONPS and NPS project partners funded $1,214,978 in CCSP projects on NPS-administered national parks, national trails and wild and scenic rivers. It’s anticipated that these funded projects will engage 6,517 participants – including 4,197 youth - in active, healthy outdoor recreation, conservation, and education initiatives.
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
