Beginning in 1999, this dataset lists awards from the Hudson River Estuary Grants Program. It includes details such as year, county, amount, grant category, location, and project name for each funded initiative. The program is managed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
Use Cases
- Analyze grant_amount distribution by county over time to identify funding trends.
- Categorize projects by grant_category to assess program focus areas.
- Map project locations using the general_location field for spatial analysis of funded activities.
- Track annual funding totals using the year field to evaluate program growth or changes.
Strengths
- Covers grant awards from 1999 onward, providing over two decades of data.
- Includes multiple key attributes per award: year, county, amount, category, location, and project name.
Limitations
- Exact row count and total data size are unknown, limiting assessment of scope.
- Data prior to the program's 1987 start date is not included in this collection.
Provenance
- Source
- New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).
- Collection Method
- null
- Time Range
- Beginning 1999
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Hudson River Estuary tidal zone and adjacent watershed in New York State.