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Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
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Federal agencies obligated $60M to Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Saint Louis, MO, in the listed fiscal years 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026.
In FY2026, the most recent complete fiscal year, obligations were $4.6M, with contracts under the listing floor.
That is down 78% on FY2025 ($20M).
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center ranks 111 of 455 listed organisations located in MO by five-year obligations, and 8,367 of 30,989 nationally.
Its $1.0M-plus awards since FY2023 came from National Science Foundation and Department of Energy: 8 awards worth $18M in total award value.
Obligations by fiscal year contracts vs assistance
| Fiscal year | All obligations | Contracts | Assistance | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | $20,946,481 | $1,109,110 | $19,837,371 | — |
| FY2024 | $13,754,589 | under $1.0M | $13,754,589 | -34% |
| FY2025 | $20,306,968 | under $1.0M | $20,306,968 | +48% |
| FY2026 | $4,565,216 | under $1.0M | $4,565,216 | -78% |
| FY2027 to date | under $1.0M | — | — | — |
A fiscal year runs 1 October to 30 September. "Contracts" are procurement award types A–D; "assistance" is everything else (grants, direct payments, loan subsidy cost, insurance, other). The contracts column is listed only where contract obligations alone reached $1.0M; the assistance figure is the remainder and may therefore include up to $1.0M of contracts.
Compared with its state and the largest recipients five listed years
| Measure | This organisation | Largest in MO | Largest nationally |
|---|---|---|---|
| Five-year obligations (listed years) | $60M | $62B | $416B |
| FY2026 obligations | $4.6M | $17B | $118B |
| Contracts, five years | $1.1M | under $1.0M | $94B |
| Assistance, five years | $58M | $62B | $416B |
| Rank by five-year obligations | 8,367 of 30,989 | 1 of 455 in MO | 1 |
Largest in state: Department of Social Services Misso. Largest nationally: Health Care Services, California Department of. Rankings count organisations located in the state, by the sum of their listed fiscal years.
Awarding agencies $1.0M+ awards since FY2023
| # | Agency | Awards | Award value | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | National Science Foundation | 6 | $9.9M | 55% |
| 2 | Department of Energy | 2 | $8.2M | 45% |
Assistance programs listings
Places of performance $1.0M+ awards
Counties: St. Louis County, MO $18M
Largest awards begun since FY2023
| Awarding agency | Type | Industry or program | Award value | Begun | Place | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Department of Energy | GrantProject Grant (B) | 81.049 Office of Science Financial Assistance Program | $5.8M | 30 Sep 2025 | MO | USAspending |
| National Science Foundation | GrantProject Grant (B) | 47.074 Biological Sciences | $2.5M | 8 May 2023 | MO | USAspending |
| Department of Energy | GrantProject Grant (B) | 81.049 Office of Science Financial Assistance Program | $2.5M | 27 Sep 2025 | MO | USAspending |
| National Science Foundation | GrantProject Grant (B) | 47.074 Biological Sciences | $2.1M | 22 Jul 2024 | MO | USAspending |
| National Science Foundation | GrantProject Grant (B) | 47.074 Biological Sciences | $1.6M | 14 Aug 2025 | MO | USAspending |
| National Science Foundation | GrantProject Grant (B) | 47.074 Biological Sciences | $1.3M | 8 Jul 2024 | MO | USAspending |
| National Science Foundation | GrantProject Grant (B) | 47.074 Biological Sciences | $1.2M | 16 Aug 2024 | MO | USAspending |
| National Science Foundation | GrantProject Grant (B) | 47.074 Biological Sciences | $1.1M | 11 Feb 2025 | MO | USAspending |
Award value is the amount obligated to the award to date as USAspending reports it. Descriptions below are USAspending's text, unedited and truncated; those that appear to name a person are withheld.
- $5.8M, Department of Energy, 30 Sep 2025: DISSECTING THE REGULATORY MECHANISMS OF C4 PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND CARBON PARTITIONING IN SORGHUM
- $2.5M, National Science Foundation, 8 May 2023: RESEARCH-PGR: ATOMIC NUMBERS: IDENTIFYING THE CONSERVED GENES DRIVING ELEMENT ACCUMULATION IN PLANTS -ELEMENTS ARE BUILDING BLOCKS OF MATTER THAT CANNOT BE CHEM
- $2.5M, Department of Energy, 27 Sep 2025: LINKING MOLECULAR, BIOCHEMICAL AND PHENOTYPIC RESPONSES TO THE ENVIRONMENT TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE, STRESS RESILIENT BIOENERGY SORGHUM
- $2.1M, National Science Foundation, 22 Jul 2024: PLANTTRANSFORM: SMART GRASS - SIMPLIFIED METHODS FOR ACCESSIBLE AND RAPID TRANSFORMATION OF THE GRASSES -AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS MUST ADAPT TO SUSTAINABLY MEET SOC
- $1.6M, National Science Foundation, 14 Aug 2025: EDGE CMT: EPIGENETIC REGULATION OF HEAT STRESS MEMORY IN PHOTOSYNTHETIC CELLS -CHANGING VARIABLE ENVIRONMENTS ARE CAUSING PLANTS TO RESPOND TO REPEATED HIGH TEM
- $1.3M, National Science Foundation, 8 Jul 2024: USING THE LIVERWORT MARCHANTIA PALACEA AS A MODEL FOR FUNCTIONAL, COMPARATIVE AND EVOLUTIONARY STUDIES OF ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL SYMBIOSIS -THIS PROJECT FOCUSES
- $1.2M, National Science Foundation, 16 Aug 2024: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: EDGE FGT: DEVELOPMENT OF SPHAGNUM (PEAT) MOSS AS A LAB MODEL SYSTEM FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL, MOLECULAR AND FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS STUDIES -MOSSES
- $1.1M, National Science Foundation, 11 Feb 2025: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: TRTECH-PGR: DEVELOPMENT AND SHARING OF HIGH-RESOLUTION IN SITU 3D CRYO WORKFLOWS TO TRANSFORM PLANT CELL BIOLOGY -MUCH CAN BE LEARNED AB
Questions and answers
How much federal money does Donald Danforth Plant Science Center receive?
$60M in award obligations over the fiscal years it is listed for (FY2023: $21M; FY2024: $14M; FY2025: $20M; FY2026: $4.6M). Years not listed were under the $1.0M floor. Obligations are binding commitments, not payments made.
Which agencies award to Donald Danforth Plant Science Center?
By the value of $1.0M-plus awards begun since FY2023: National Science Foundation ($9.9M) and Department of Energy ($8.2M).
What is the money for?
Assistance falls under Biological Sciences (47.074) and Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (81.049).
Where is the work performed?
Primary places of performance for its larger awards: MO ($18M).
Is Donald Danforth Plant Science Center a large federal recipient?
It ranks 8,367 of 30,989 organisations on this site by five-year obligations and 111 of 455 located in MO. The site covers organisations with at least $1.0M in a fiscal year; individuals are excluded.
Where does this data come from?
USAspending.gov (U.S. Treasury), award transactions as loaded on 30 Sep 2026; fiscal-year totals via the spending-by-category endpoint and award lists via the award search endpoint. The USAspending recipient profile is the authoritative record.
Provenance
Source: USAspending.gov API v2 (U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service), CC0. Fiscal-year obligations from the spending-by-category recipient ranking by recipient state (listing floor $1.0M per year); awards from the award search endpoint (new awards of $1.0M or more by base obligation date); parent and business categories from the recipient profile where fetched. Closed fiscal years are snapshots taken after year end; FY2027 is refreshed on each build. Data loaded by USAspending on 30 Sep 2026. Individuals and sole proprietors are excluded at ingest. Errors in processing are corrected at the next build; see corrections and the methodology.