Do my tax dollars pay for this?

Here's how our budget breaks down:

State Base Funding - research support; salary support, equipment & facilities, supplies, travel, leverage for external grant funding

UMD Operations & Maintenance - administrative salary support, research support, leverage for external grant funding

State Grants & Contracts - state funding (legislative, agency); cannot cover overhead/support costs

Federal Grants & Contracts - federal grants (e.g. National Science Foundation, Department of Agriculture, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy, etc.)

Permanent University Trust Fund - natural resources research project support at Coleraine site

Industry Contracts/External Sales - service and research contracts