Federal sub-agency · Department of Agriculture

Natural Resources Conservation Service

No contract obligations recorded for Natural Resources Conservation Service in FY2026. It also awarded $4.9B in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$0
Actions
0
New awards: 0
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 115.1MFY2017
  2. 99.1MFY2018
  3. 12.3MFY2019
  4. 1.4MFY2020
  5. -683.8KFY2021
  6. 97.8KFY2022
  7. -97.2KFY2023
  8. -369.1KFY2024

Top recipients

Obligations in FY2026.

No contract obligations recorded for Natural Resources Conservation Service in FY2026.

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

Federal grants & assistance awarded

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Natural Resources Conservation Service obligated $4.9B in federal assistance in FY2026, on 128,658 actions (43,565 new awards), +47% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 10.912 · Environmental Quality Incentives Program ($2.6B).

Assistance · FY2026
$4.9B
New awards
43,565
Actions
128.7K
Since FY2021
$32B

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 4.9BFY2021
  2. 4.2BFY2022
  3. 7.9BFY2023
  4. 6.8BFY2024
  5. 3.3BFY2025
  6. 4.9BFY2026

By type

  1. Other assistance$4B82%
  2. Grants$801.9M16%
  3. Direct payments$73M1.5%

Top programs

  1. 10.912 · Environmental Quality Incentives Program$2.6B53%
  2. 10.924 · Conservation Stewardship Program$1.2B24%
  3. 10.923 · Emergency Watershed Protection Program$609.6M12%
  4. 10.931 · Agricultural Conservation Easement Program$352.2M7.2%
  5. 10.932 · Regional Conservation Partnership Program$70.9M1.4%
  6. 10.937 · Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities$62.1M1.3%
  7. 10.904 · Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention$50M1.0%
  8. 10.916 · Watershed Rehabilitation Program$13.5M0.3%

Top recipients (organizations)

  1. COUNTY OF LINCOLN$191M3.9%
    CARRIZOZO, NM
  2. NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$95M1.9%
    WASHINGTON, DC
  3. NATIONAL EXPERIENCED WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS, INC$65.6M1.3%
    ARLINGTON, VA
  4. COUNTY OF ROBESON$43.8M0.9%
    LUMBERTON, NC
  5. COUNTY OF PIKE$41.6M0.8%
    PIKEVILLE, KY
  6. BUNCOMBE, COUNTY OF$37M0.8%
    ASHEVILLE, NC
  7. COUNTY OF PINELLAS$29.4M0.6%
    CLEARWATER, FL
  8. VILLAGE OF RYE BROOK$28.6M0.6%
    PORT CHESTER, NY

Where it went

  1. Texas$403.9M8.2%
  2. New Mexico$251.6M5.1%
  3. Arkansas$244.3M5.0%
  4. North Carolina$227.6M4.6%
  5. California$200.5M4.1%
  6. North Dakota$198.7M4.0%
  7. Kentucky$192.6M3.9%
  8. Montana$190.5M3.9%
  9. Minnesota$180.7M3.7%
  10. Nebraska$154.3M3.1%

By state of the place of performance.

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.

Federal grants & assistance

Subawards under this agency's awards

First-tier subawards that recipients of this agency's contracts and financial assistance reported, by the fiscal year of the subaward.

FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $93.1M (254 subawards)

189 sub-recipients

Largest sub-recipients

  1. SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY$5.7M6.1%
    ORANGEBURG, SC · 1 subaward
  2. THE AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST$4.7M5.0%
    WASHINGTON, DC · 5 subawards
  3. THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$3.4M3.7%
    ARLINGTON, VA · 12 subawards
  4. UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.$3.3M3.6%
    ATHENS, GA · 3 subawards
  5. AMERICAN BIRD CONSERVANCY$3.3M3.5%
    MARSHALL, VA · 1 subaward
  6. UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM$3.2M3.5%
    COLUMBIA, MO · 3 subawards
  7. VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY$3.2M3.4%
    BLACKSBURG, VA · 4 subawards
  8. TALL TIMBERS RESEARCH, INC.$3M3.2%
    TALLAHASSEE, FL · 4 subawards
  9. SAVANNA INSTITUTE$2.4M2.6%
    MADISON, WI · 1 subaward
  10. THE SAND COUNTY FOUNDATION, INC$2.3M2.5%
    MADISON, WI · 1 subaward

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Committees that oversee and fund it

Congressional committees whose jurisdiction includes this agency, and the appropriations subcommittees that write its spending bill (Analisa's reading of the House and Senate rules; committees share jurisdiction). Leaders as currently published.

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Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.