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Assistance Listing 15.814

National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation

Department of the Interior · Us Geological Survey

Assistance Listing 15.814, “National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation,” is a federal program administered by Department of the Interior. It provides grant assistance. GrantsJunction currently tracks 0 open, 0 forecasted and 4 closed opportunities under this listing. The agency reported $5M in obligations for fiscal year 2025. Since October 1, 2023, USAspending.gov shows 127 grant awards under this listing; the largest recipient was UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

Program objective

To preserve and provide access to geological, geophysical, and engineering samples (and any related data) extracted from the Earth to improve the breadth of information available and to inform science and decision making now and in the future.

As published in the SAM.gov Assistance Listing.

Current opportunities under 15.814

No open or forecasted opportunities are currently posted under this listing. Programs often post notices on an annual cycle — see recently closed opportunities below for timing.

Eligible applicants (program level)

  • Other

State geological surveys are eligible to apply. For State geological surveys organized under a State university system, such universities may submit a proposal on behalf of or through the State geological survey.

Intended beneficiaries: Other.

Program-level eligibility from SAM.gov. Each funding notice sets its own requirements.

Reported obligations by fiscal year

Historical data · not a prediction
FY24$5M
FY25$5M
FY26$1.9M est.

Range and average of financial assistance (from the listing): Past Fiscal Year (2024):The range is $2,999.70 to $352,643.87; the average is $133,578.24 Current Fiscal Year (2025): The estimated range is $12,150.66 to $944,429; the average is $198,307.48 Budget Fiscal Year (2026):Estimate not available

Source: SAM.gov Assistance Listing 15.814. Hatched bars are agency estimates. These totals do not indicate approval rates.

Who gets funded

Historical data · not a prediction

Since October 1, 2023, USAspending.gov shows 127 grant or cooperative agreement awards with funding actions under ALN 15.814, and prime recipients reported 1 sub-award to other organizations.

Grant obligations by fiscal year

FY22$4.25M
FY23$5.74M
FY24$4.57M
FY25$6.46M
Obligations recorded in USAspending.gov; FY25 may be partial. Can differ from the agency-reported totals above.

Where recipients are located

  • Illinois$884K
  • Indiana$834K
  • Ohio$712K
  • Alabama$688K
  • Kentucky$680K
  • Texas$670K
  • Nevada$645K
  • New Mexico$564K
  • Alaska$465K
  • Washington$381K
All 38 states and territories

Oklahoma $361K · Utah $353K · Missouri $298K · Arizona $295K · Montana $281K · Arkansas $279K · Florida $241K · Michigan $238K · Idaho $215K · Rhode Island $205K · Kansas $175K · Tennessee $168K · Delaware $163K · Maryland $156K · Wisconsin $142K · West Virginia $135K · Nebraska $127K · Oregon $108K · Virginia $93.1K · Pennsylvania $77.5K · Iowa $72K · New Hampshire $56.1K · North Carolina $45.1K · Wyoming $44.7K · Vermont $35K · New Jersey $29.1K · Colorado $26.5K · Maine $21.3K

Most recent awards

  • THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY · VAPROJECT TITLE: PRIORITY 1: PRESERVATION AND INVENTORY OF THE OAK GROVE CORE RESCUE AND PRESERVATION OF HISTORIC MINERAL MINE RECORDS DIGITAL GEMS CONVERSION OF THE LEONARDTOWN 30 X 60-MINUTE QUADRANGLE PRIORITY 2: REDESIGN THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF VIRGINIA DATABASE TO INCREASE ACCESS AND DISCOVERABILITY EQUIPMENT TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT RADIOACTIVE ROCK SAMPLES PRIORITY 3: GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSES OF $145KStarts Sep 15, 2025 · Award ↗
  • MONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY · MTPROJECT TITLE: PRESERVATION OF WINSTON AND THOMAS COLLECTIONS AND GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF HISTORIC BUTTE AND BELT SUPERGROUP DRILL COREPROJECT PERIOD:9 15 2025 THROUGH 9 14 2028PROJECT PURPOSE:PRIORITY 1: PRESERVE THE COLLECTIONS OF GEOLOGISTS ROB THOMAS AND DON WINSTON WITH BOTH PHYSICAL PRESERVATION ACTIVITIES AND THE GENERATION OF DIGITAL SURROGATES AND METADATA TO MAKE BOTH MORE ACCESSIBLE AND$119KStarts Sep 15, 2025 · Award ↗
  • WYOMING STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY · WYPROJECT TITLE: WYOMING STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DATA PRESERVATIONFOSSIL PREPARATION, PHOTOGRAPHYLAB, AND HISTORICAL CRITICAL-MINERAL SAMPLES ANALYSISPROJECT PERIOD: SEPTEMBER 8, 2025 - SEPTEMBER 7, 2026PROJECT PURPOSE: THIS PROJECT WILL PRESERVE VITAL INFORMATION ABOUT WYOMING S GEOLOGY BY MAKING IT EASIERTO LOCATE AND UTILIZE. THIS INCLUDES PREPARING FOSSILS FOR STUDY, ESTABLISHING A PHOTOGRAPHY L$41.7KStarts Sep 8, 2025 · Award ↗
  • UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS · ILPROJECT TITLE: PROJECT TITLE: PRESERVATION OF DRILL CUTTINGS AND COLLECTIONS IN ILLINOIS: FY 25PROJECT PERIOD: 9 1 2025 THROUGH 8 31 2028PROJECT PURPOSE: PRIORITY 1 WILL FOCUS ON THE CURATORIAL ASPECT OF PRESERVING THE HISTORIC DRILL CUTTINGS COLLECTION IN THE GEOLOGICAL SAMPLES LIBRARY (GSL) (GSL HTTPS: ISGS.ILLINOIS.EDU DATA GEOLOGICAL-SAMPLES ) AT ILLINOIS SATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY (ISGS). THE ISG$895KStarts Sep 1, 2025 · Award ↗
  • BOARD OF REGENTS OF NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION · NVPROJECT TITLE: NEVADA GEOSCIENCE DATA PRESERVATION AND DIGITIZATION ACTIVITIES, NGGDPP 2025PROJECT PERIOD: 9 1 2025 THROUGH 8 31 2028PROJECT PURPOSE AND ACTIVITIES TO BE PERFORMED:PRIORITY 1 PROJECTS INCLUDE A MAJOR EFFORT TO CONTINUE INVENTORY, BARCODING, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND LASER INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY (LIBS) ANALYSIS OF BOREHOLE CORE SAMPLES HOUSED AT THE GREAT BASIN SCIENCE SAMPLE AND REC$444KStarts Sep 1, 2025 · Award ↗
  • FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION · FLPROJECT TITLE: FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CRITICAL MINERAL SAMPLE DATA PRESERVATIONPROJECT PERIOD: SEPTEMBER 1, 2025 - AUGUST 31, 2028AWARD PURPOSE: SUBMIT 150-300 HEAVY MINERAL SAND SAMPLES TO THE USGS FOR MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTAL ANALYSES. A SUBSET OF SAMPLES ANALYZED BY THE USGS WILL BE SUBMITTED TO THE DENVER LAB FOR U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY.ACTIVITIES TO BE PERFORMED: (1) LOCATION VERIFICATION AND $12.2KStarts Sep 1, 2025 · Award ↗
  • DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT & CONSERVATION TENNESSEE · TNPROJECT TITLE: CREATING METADATA RECORDS AND DIGITIZING NEWLY ACQUIRED MATERIAL IN THE TENNESSEE COLLECTION OF MINERAL RESOURCES, CONVERTING THE BETHEL VALLEY 7.5-MINUTE QUADRANGLE GEOLOGIC MAP TO LEVEL 3 GEMS, ADDING CONTENT TO THE TGS COLLECTIONS ARCGIS ONLINE WEB MAP INTERFACE, COMPILING CRITICAL MINERAL BOREHOLE DATA FOR THE EARTH MRI MIDDLE TENNESSEE MINERAL DISTRICT FOCUS AREA, AND DEVELOPIN$72.2KStarts Sep 1, 2025 · Award ↗
  • MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL R · MOPROJECT TITLE: FY 2025 NATIONAL GEOLOGICAL GEOPHYSICAL DATA PRESERVATION PROGRAM - FY 25 NGGDPPPROJECT PERIOD: 9 1 2025 THROUGH 8 31 2028AWARD PURPOSE: PRIORITY 1 - SCANS AND METADATA FOR BLACK SHALE AND COAL FILES. SCANS ARCHIVED ON MGS SERVERS METADATA UPLOADED TO RESCICOLL. THIN SECTION SCANNING PILOT PROJECT TO DETERMINE BEST PRACTICES BEFORE A PLANNED FULL PROJECT.PRIORITY 2 - PURCHASE ENVELO$187KStarts Sep 1, 2025 · Award ↗
  • REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO · IDPROJECT TITLE: USGS DATA PRESERVATION 18PROJECT PERIOD: 8 18 2025 THROUGH 8 17 2026AWARD PURPOSE: PRIORITY 1: TO PRESERVE GEOSCIENCE DATA AND MATERIALSPRIORITY 2: DIGITAL AND PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENTPRIORITY 3: CRITICAL MINERALS DATA PRESERVATIONACTIVITIES TO BE PERFORMED: PRIORITY 1: INCORPORATE ADDITIONAL FILES IN MINES AND PROSPECTS OF IDAHO DATABASE AND WEB APP AND COMPILE ADDITIONA$142KStarts Aug 18, 2025 · Award ↗
  • UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM · WIPROJECT TITLE: FY2025 DATA PRESERVATION JANSEN PAPERS, PASSIVE SEISMIC DATABASE, MINERAL DEVELOPMENT ATLAS, AQUIFER PROPERTIES DATABASE, EARTH MRI SAMPLE ANALYSESPROJECT PERIOD: 8 15 2025 THROUGH 8 14 2026PROJECT PURPOSE: THE WISCONSIN GEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY WILL SCAN AND CATALOG A COLLECTION OF 240 REPORTS DONATED TO US BY JOHN JANSEN, A HYDROGEOLOGIST WHO DID CONSULTING WORK THROU$79.8KStarts Aug 15, 2025 · Award ↗

Pass-through funding: largest sub-awards

Prime recipients (often state agencies, universities or national organizations) passed funding to these organizations. If your organization can't apply directly, a prime recipient may run its own sub-grant competition.

  • NORWICH UNIVERSITYfrom DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION VERMONT$32K · Aug 20, 2024

Source: USAspending.gov (grants and cooperative agreements, award types 02–05), refreshed weekly; last checked Oct 9, 2026. Names and amounts are as reported by agencies and prime recipients. Past recipients show where money went — not who is eligible or how likely an application is to succeed.

Recently closed under 15.814

Closed opportunities under 15.814
OpportunityStatusAward rangeClosesALN
ClosedAmount not specifiedDec 12, 202415.814
ClosedAmount not specifiedDec 6, 202315.814
ClosedAmount not specifiedOct 13, 202215.814
ClosedAmount not specifiedJan 27, 202215.814

Frequently asked questions

What is ALN 15.814?

15.814 is the Assistance Listing Number for “National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation.” Assistance Listing Numbers (formerly CFDA numbers) identify federal assistance programs; individual grant opportunities reference the listing they are funded under.

Who can apply under ALN 15.814?

The SAM.gov listing names these applicant types: Other. Each funding notice under the program sets its own eligibility, so check the specific opportunity.

How much funding does 15.814 provide?

The agency reported $5,000,000 in obligations for FY2025 in the SAM.gov Assistance Listing. These are program-wide totals reported by the agency, not a prediction of future awards.

Who has received funding under ALN 15.814?

Since October 1, 2023, USAspending.gov records 127 grant awards under 15.814. The largest recipients by obligations were UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ($884K), TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY ($834K), DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES ($712K), GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ALABAMA ($688K) and 1 more. Prime recipients also reported 1 sub-awards to other organizations. Past recipients do not indicate eligibility or chances of approval.