Recipient of federal assistance · CHICAGO, IL

AHEAD, INC.

AHEAD, INC. received $1.2M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026, on 7 actions, −52% vs FY2025. It has no federal contracts in the loaded years. Since FY2025: $3.7M. Its largest awarding agency was Federal Communications Commission ($1.2M).

Assistance · FY2026
$1.2M
New awards
6
Actions
7
Since FY2025
$3.7M
UEI
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Location
CHICAGO, IL
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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. 2.5MFY2025
  2. 1.2MFY2026

By type

  1. Direct payments$1.2M100%

Top programs · Awarding agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Top programs

  1. 32.004 · Universal Service Fund - Schools and Libraries$808K67%
  2. 32.005 · Universal Service Fund - Rural Health Care$393.7K33%

Awarding agencies

  1. Federal Communications Commission$1.2M100%

Largest awards

  1. THE SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES PROGRAM KEEPS STUDENTS AND LIBRARY PATRONS CONNECTED TO BROADBAND SERVICES.$441K
    32.004 · Universal Service Fund - Schools and Libraries· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· May 31, 2026 – May 31, 2026· SL-2699028225
  2. THE RURAL HEALTH CARE (RHC) PROGRAM SUPPORTS HEALTH CARE FACILITIES IN BRINGING WORLD CLASS MEDICAL CARE TO RURAL AREAS THROUGH INCREASED…$393.7K
    32.005 · Universal Service Fund - Rural Health Care· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Jun 30, 2026 – Jun 30, 2026· RHCHCF-RHC20250013834
  3. THE SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES PROGRAM KEEPS STUDENTS AND LIBRARY PATRONS CONNECTED TO BROADBAND SERVICES.$171.4K
    32.004 · Universal Service Fund - Schools and Libraries· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· May 31, 2026 – May 31, 2026· SL-2699049021
  4. THE SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES PROGRAM KEEPS STUDENTS AND LIBRARY PATRONS CONNECTED TO BROADBAND SERVICES.$120.3K
    32.004 · Universal Service Fund - Schools and Libraries· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Mar 31, 2026 – Mar 31, 2026· CSPP-CBR9900000665
  5. THE SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES PROGRAM KEEPS STUDENTS AND LIBRARY PATRONS CONNECTED TO BROADBAND SERVICES.$40.7K
    32.004 · Universal Service Fund - Schools and Libraries· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Dec 31, 2025 – Mar 31, 2026· SL-2599053320
  6. THE SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES PROGRAM KEEPS STUDENTS AND LIBRARY PATRONS CONNECTED TO BROADBAND SERVICES.$34.6K
    32.004 · Universal Service Fund - Schools and Libraries· Federal Communications Commission· Direct payment for specified use· Sep 30, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026· SL-2699058952

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

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $1.5M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $688.3K 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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · FY2025–FY2026.