Federal sub-agency · Department of Commerce

Minority Business Development Agency

No contract obligations recorded for Minority Business Development Agency in FY2026. It also awarded $22M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$0
Actions
0
New awards: 0
Sole-source
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Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

Top recipients

Obligations in FY2026.

No contract obligations recorded for Minority Business Development Agency 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.

Minority Business Development Agency obligated $22M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 77 actions (12 new awards), +746% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 11.802 · Mbda Specialty Center Program ($12.9M).

Assistance · FY2026
$22M
New awards
12
Actions
77
Since FY2021
$290.9M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 48.6MFY2021
  2. 41.7MFY2022
  3. 152.9MFY2023
  4. 23.1MFY2024
  5. 2.6MFY2025
  6. 22MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$22M100%

Top programs

  1. 11.802 · Mbda Specialty Center Program$12.9M58%
  2. 11.805 · Mbda Business Center Program$6.1M28%
  3. 11.804 · Mbda Native American Business Enterprise Entrepreneurship Program$3M14%

Top recipients (organizations)

  1. NATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT, THE$3M14%
    MESA, AZ
  2. PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY$2.9M13%
    HEMPSTEAD, TX
  3. FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY$2.7M12%
    FAYETTEVILLE, NC
  4. FLORIDA A & M UNIVERSITY$2M9.1%
    TALLAHASSEE, FL
  5. ALBANY STATE UNIVERSITY$1.9M8.5%
    ALBANY, GA
  6. PURDUE UNIVERSITY$1.7M7.7%
    WEST LAFAYETTE, IN
  7. GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC$1.6M7.3%
    ATLANTA, GA
  8. GRAMBLING STATE UNIVERSITY$1.6M7.2%
    GRAMBLING, LA

Where it went

  1. Georgia$3.5M16%
  2. Arizona$3.2M15%
  3. Texas$2.9M13%
  4. Louisiana$2.9M13%
  5. North Carolina$2.7M12%
  6. Florida$2M9.1%
  7. Indiana$1.7M7.7%
  8. New York$1.2M5.4%
  9. Montana$1.1M5.2%
  10. Connecticut$205K0.9%

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: -$155.8K (1 subaward)

1 sub-recipient

Largest sub-recipients

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.

Who lobbies this agency

Organizations whose quarterly lobbying reports list this agency as contacted, ranked by the reports' spending. A report's amount covers all its issues and every agency it lists; reports do not split it.

Lobbying in 2026
$290K
Clients
2
Reports
3

The whole amount of every report that lists this agency.

Organizations lobbying it, 2026

  1. GREATER CLEVELAND PARTNERSHIP$190K
    Not matched to a contract recipient · Budget and appropriations, Defense, Medical and disease research, clinical labs
  2. Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAI match · 100%$100K
    0.0% of its family's FY2026 contracts from this agency · Budget and appropriations, Defense, Medical and disease research, clinical labs

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 2026.

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.