Federal contractor · ANN ARBOR, MI

ALTARUM INSTITUTE

ALTARUM INSTITUTE received $5.5M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 6 awards (+20% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $96.6M. Its largest customer was Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ($3.6M). It also received $2.6M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$5.5M
New awards
6
Sole-source
2.3%
Single offer
1.4%
UEI
W87EWFMEBBD1
Other than small businessNonprofit
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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

Part of the PALLADIAN PARTNERS, INC. company family: 2 registered entities, $6.5M in FY2026 together. See the family

  1. PALLADIAN PARTNERS, INC.SILVER SPRING, MD · Family page
    $985K

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 16.6MFY2017
  2. 15.1MFY2018
  3. 12MFY2019
  4. 7.2MFY2020
  5. 8.7MFY2021
  6. 7.2MFY2022
  7. 9.8MFY2023
  8. 9.9MFY2024
  9. 4.6MFY2025
  10. 5.5MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration$3.6M65%
    1 awards
  2. Defense Health Agency$1.7M31%
    1 awards
  3. Department of Veterans Affairs$127.9K2.3%
    1 awards
  4. Health Resources and Services Administration$79.6K1.4%
    2 awards
  5. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration$00.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$5.4M98%
  2. Research & development$127.9K2.3%

Where the work was performed

  1. Washtenaw County, MI$3.6M65%
  2. Fairfax County, VA$1.7M31%
  3. Suffolk County, MA$127.9K2.3%
  4. Macomb County, MI$79.6K1.4%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition3.7%
    US 39% · $207.5K
  • Sole-source awards2.3%
    US 30% · $127.9K
  • Single-offer competitions1.4%
    US 8.7% · $79.6K
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Department of Veterans Affairs$127.9K
    Department of Veterans Affairs · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. TO PROVIDE SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTISE SERVICES TO SUPPORT EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT DECISIONS AND HEALTH PLAN POLICY DEVELOPMENT/IMPLEMENTATION THROUGH THESE SURVEYS, STUDIES AND ANALYSES.$17.5M
    Defense Health Agency· Fairfax County, VA· Professional services· Mar 17, 2021 – Mar 27, 2026· HT001121F0025
  2. NATIONAL TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTER FOR 988 AND CRISIS SERVICES (CRISIS TTAC)$9.6M
    Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration· Washtenaw County, MI· Professional services· May 26, 2023 – Sep 23, 2026· 75S20323F42001
  3. MCHB59 C 2967 - EARLY CHILDHOOD SYSTEMS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND COORDINATION CENTER (TACC). THE PURPOSE OF THIS REQUIREMENT IS TO ESTABLISH A TACC TO PROVIDE TA TO INCREASE THE CAPACITY OF ECCS PROGRAM RECIPIENTS AND ALIGNED STAKEHOLDERS TO BUILD I$6.4M
    Health Resources and Services Administration· Montgomery County, MD· Professional services· Jul 26, 2021 – Jul 24, 2026· 75R60221F34002
  4. MCHB57 C 5792 STRATEGIC SUPPORT SERVICES FOR THE REGIONAL PANDEMIC NETWORK$2.2M
    Health Resources and Services Administration· Macomb County, MI· Professional services· Sep 12, 2023 – Jun 5, 2026· 75R60223F34009
  5. REVISION OF SOFTWARE AND SECURITY QUESTION DEVELOPMENT FOR THE SECURITY RISK ASSESSMENT (SRA) TOOL FOR ONC-OCPO$864.4K
    Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration· Washtenaw County, MI· Professional services· Aug 21, 2017 – Mar 2, 2026· HHSP23337001T
  6. RESEARCH$127.9K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Suffolk County, MA· Research & development· Jul 8, 2026 – Jul 14, 2026· 36C24126N0729

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.

ALTARUM INSTITUTE received $2.6M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 14 actions (0 new awards), +4% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 93.110 · Special Projects of Regional and National Significance ($2M).

Assistance · FY2026
$2.6M
New awards
0
Actions
14
Since FY2021
$25.3M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 4.5MFY2021
  2. 5.2MFY2022
  3. 7.7MFY2023
  4. 2.7MFY2024
  5. 2.5MFY2025
  6. 2.6MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$2.6M100%

Top programs

  1. 93.110 · Special Projects of Regional and National Significance$2M78%
  2. 93.940 · HIV Prevention and Surveillance Activities-Health Department Based$576K22%

Awarding agencies

  1. Health Resources and Services Administration$2M78%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention$576K22%
    Department of Health and Human Services

Largest awards

  1. ENHANCING NATIONAL STD/HIV PREVENTION EFFORTS BY PROMOTING HOLISTIC, COMPREHENSIVE AND EVIDENCE-INFORMED, HEALTH AND WELLNESS APPROACHES…$6.4M
    93.939 · HIV Prevention Activities Non-Governmental Organization Based· Centers for Disease Control and Prevention· Cooperative agreement· Aug 2, 2022 – Aug 18, 2026· NH25PS005200
  2. CENTER FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH MEDICAID PARTNERSHIPS - THE CENTER FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH MEDICAID PARTNERSHIPS (CMMP) WILL…$6M
    93.110 · Special Projects of Regional and National Significance· Health Resources and Services Administration· Project grant· Sep 20, 2024 – Aug 31, 2026· US854196

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.

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: $92K (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS$92K100%
    ITASCA, IL · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $9.5M paid out · $2.1M received
  • FY2022: $1.5M paid out · $1.9M received
  • FY2023: $1.1M paid out · $1.7M received
  • FY2024: $1.1M paid out · $3.8M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $2.2M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $92K 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

28 companies · $13.1M reported

  1. DATASTAT INC.$3.4M
    ANN ARBOR, MI · 4 subawards · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
  2. WESTAT, INC.$2.1M
    ROCKVILLE, MD · 2 subawards · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
  3. NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$1.3M
    EVANSTON, IL · 3 subawards · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services

Primes that pay it

14 companies · $12.9M reported

  1. KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT$2.6M
    TOPEKA, KS · 3 subawards
  2. REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$1.8M
    ANN ARBOR, MI · 3 subawards
  3. AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS$1.4M
    ITASCA, IL · 14 subawards

Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.

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 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 13 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. IQ SOLUTIONS, INC.$56M−80% in FY2026
    ROCKVILLE, MD · 48% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Institutes of Health · Newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishersNational Institutes of Health · Management, scientific, and technical consulting servicesNational Institutes of Health · Newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishers
  2. RIPPLE EFFECT COMMUNICATIONS, INC.$37.6M+80% in FY2026
    ROCKVILLE, MD · 32% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Health Agency · Management, scientific, and technical consulting servicesNational Institutes of Health · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
  3. ZYGOS CONSULTING LLC$9.6M−62% in FY2026
    ARLINGTON, VA · 18% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Health Agency · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

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 · FY2024–FY2026.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Across the company family of PALLADIAN PARTNERS, INC. (2 recipients).

Matched organizations

  • Palladian Partners, Inc.,AI match · 99%
Lobbying · 2025
$50K
1 reports
Lobbying · 2024–2025
$100K

Lobbying by year

  1. 2024$50K
    1 reports
  2. 2025$50K
    1 reports

Top issues

  1. Budget and appropriations2 reports
  2. Health issues2 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES2 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE2 reports
  3. Natl Institutes of Health (NIH)1 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

  1. Hogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP (FKA Hogan Lovells US LLP)$100K
    2 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

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 Oct 5, 2026.

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.