Recipient of federal assistance · ABILENE, TX

ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY

ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY received $22M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026, on 380 actions, +25% vs FY2025. It has no federal contracts in the loaded years. Since FY2021: $83.5M. Its largest awarding agency was Department of Education ($22M).

Assistance · FY2026
$22M
New awards
7
Actions
380
Since FY2021
$83.5M
UEI
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Parent organization
ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY INC
Location
ABILENE, TX
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Federal grants & assistance received

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.

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 14.4MFY2021
  2. 5.4MFY2022
  3. 10MFY2023
  4. 14.1MFY2024
  5. 17.6MFY2025
  6. 22MFY2026

By type

  1. Direct payments$18.5M84%
  2. Grants$3.5M16%

Top programs · Awarding agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Top programs

  1. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program$17.2M78%
  2. 84.184 · School Safely National Activities$3M14%
  3. 84.033 · Federal Work-Study Program$900K4.1%
  4. 84.007 · Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants$411.4K1.9%
  5. 84.047 · Trio Upward Bound$325.2K1.5%
  6. 84.042 · Trio Student Support Services$175.1K0.8%
  7. 84.379 · Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education Grants (Teach GRANTS)$6,7580.0%
  8. 45.161 · Promotion of the Humanities Research-$10.9K0.0%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Education$22M100%

Largest awards

  1. GRANT PROGRAM$16.8M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 26, 2025 – Sep 16, 2026· P063P252255
  2. GRANT PROGRAM$14.6M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 27, 2024 – Apr 17, 2026· P063P242255
  3. THE SPIN AND ANTI-QUARK STRUCTURE OF THE NUCLEON$4M
    81.049 · Office of Science Financial Assistance Program· Department of Energy· Project grant· Jul 14, 2021 – Jun 2, 2026· DEFG0203ER41243
  4. PROJECT SMILE: SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS MOLDED INTO INTERDISCIPLINARY LEADERS IN EDUCATION$3.7M
    84.184 · School Safely National Activities· Department of Education· Project grant· Oct 17, 2024 – Dec 10, 2025· S184X240046
  5. ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY UPWARD BOUND PROGRAM$1.6M
    84.047 · Trio Upward Bound· Department of Education· Project grant· May 23, 2022 – Jul 29, 2026· P047A220783
  6. ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY SSS PROGRAM PROPOSAL$1.2M
    84.042 · Trio Student Support Services· Department of Education· Project grant· Aug 17, 2021 – Aug 12, 2026· P042A200557

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $31.5K (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA (THE)$31.5K100%
    WASHINGTON, DC · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $51.1K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $45K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $300K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $31.5K received

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 11, 2026, loaded Oct 11, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.