Recipient of federal assistance · MUNCIE, IN

BALL STATE UNIVERSITY

BALL STATE UNIVERSITY received $41.4M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026, on 304 actions, −4.9% vs FY2025. It has no federal contracts in the loaded years. Since FY2021: $236.8M. Its largest awarding agency was Department of Education ($40.1M).

Assistance · FY2026
$41.4M
New awards
10
Actions
304
Since FY2021
$236.8M
UEI
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Location
MUNCIE, IN
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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. 66.3MFY2021
  2. 12.1MFY2022
  3. 34.2MFY2023
  4. 39.4MFY2024
  5. 43.5MFY2025
  6. 41.4MFY2026

By type

  1. Direct payments$39.1M94%
  2. Grants$2.3M5.5%

Top programs · Awarding agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Top programs

  1. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program$36.8M89%
  2. 84.033 · Federal Work-Study Program$1.7M4.1%
  3. 84.007 · Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants$611.7K1.5%
  4. 93.859 · Biomedical Research and Research Training$562.5K1.4%
  5. 84.206 · Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education$482.7K1.2%
  6. 84.324 · Research in Special Education$470.1K1.1%
  7. 47.074 · Biological Sciences$428.3K1.0%
  8. 47.041 · Engineering$392.6K0.9%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Education$40.1M97%
  2. National Science Foundation$996.3K2.4%
  3. National Institutes of Health$334.8K0.8%
    Department of Health and Human Services

Largest awards

  1. GRANT PROGRAM$36.8M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 12, 2024 – Jan 11, 2026· P063P240120
  2. GRANT PROGRAM$36.2M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 11, 2025 – Sep 17, 2026· P063P250120
  3. GRANT PROGRAM$16.4M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· May 18, 2026 – Sep 18, 2026· P063P260120
  4. PROJECT BRILLIANCE: DESIGNING IDENTIFICATION METHODS AND PROGRAMS FOR GIFTED STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES$2.1M
    84.206 · Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education· Department of Education· Project grant· Aug 17, 2022 – Aug 28, 2026· S206A220014
  5. COMPASS ACROSS SETTINGS (CAST) FOR INTEGRATING SCHOOL, HOME, AND COMMUNITY SERVICES AND IMPROVING TRANSITION OUTCOMES FOR STUDENTS WITH ASD$2M
    84.324 · Research in Special Education· Department of Education· Project grant· Jul 14, 2023 – Aug 3, 2026· R324A230008
  6. GENETIC REQUIREMENTS FOR PROTEIN DEGRADATION AT THE EUKARYOTIC TRANSLOCON$1.8M
    93.859 · Biomedical Research and Research Training· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Jun 14, 2022 – Sep 2, 2026· R15GM111713

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: $1.1M (11 subawards)

8 primes

  1. INDIANA FAMILY AND SOCIAL SERV$563.6K53%
    INDIANAPOLIS, IN · 4 subawards
  2. INDIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$170.2K16%
    INDIANAPOLIS, IN · 1 subaward
  3. WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF$104.6K9.9%
    INDIANAPOLIS, IN · 1 subaward
  4. PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER$73.2K6.9%
    BATON ROUGE, LA · 1 subaward
  5. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER$53K5.0%
    DALLAS, TX · 1 subaward
  6. TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY$50K4.7%
    INDIANAPOLIS, IN · 1 subaward
  7. TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY$37.7K3.6%
    BLOOMINGTON, IN · 1 subaward
  8. IN DEPT OF EDUCATION$5,0000.5%
    INDIANAPOLIS, IN · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $5.5M paid out · $493.9K received
  • FY2022: $5.2M paid out · $3.1M received
  • FY2023: $686.3K paid out · $1.4M received
  • FY2024: $2.1M paid out · $951.4K received
  • FY2025: $1.9M paid out · $890.8K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $1.1M 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 · FY2021–FY2026.