Recipient of federal assistance · BRUNSWICK, ME

BOWDOIN COLLEGE

BOWDOIN COLLEGE received $4.8M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026, on 34 actions, −2.1% vs FY2025. It has no federal contracts in the loaded years. Since FY2021: $26.6M. Its largest awarding agency was Department of Education ($3.9M).

Assistance · FY2026
$4.8M
New awards
7
Actions
34
Since FY2021
$26.6M
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Location
BRUNSWICK, ME
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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. 6.8MFY2021
  2. 1.3MFY2022
  3. 5.7MFY2023
  4. 3MFY2024
  5. 4.9MFY2025
  6. 4.8MFY2026

By type

  1. Direct payments$3M63%
  2. Grants$1.8M37%

Top programs · Awarding agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Top programs

  1. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program$2.5M52%
  2. 84.047 · Trio Upward Bound$859.5K18%
  3. 93.855 · Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research$482.5K10.0%
  4. 84.007 · Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants$294K6.1%
  5. 47.049 · Mathematical and Physical Sciences$270K5.6%
  6. 47.083 · Integrative Activities$236K4.9%
  7. 84.033 · Federal Work-Study Program$234K4.8%
  8. 93.879 · Medical Library Assistance-$0.390.0%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Education$3.9M80%
  2. National Science Foundation$506K10%
  3. National Institutes of Health$444.6K9.2%
    Department of Health and Human Services

Largest awards

  1. GRANT PROGRAM$2.5M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 28, 2025 – Mar 26, 2026· P063P251533
  2. UPWARD BOUND PROGRAM$2.2M
    84.047 · Trio Upward Bound· Department of Education· Project grant· May 31, 2023 – May 19, 2026· P047A230514
  3. BOWDOIN COLLEGE UPWARD BOUND GRANT 2 - WASHINGTON COUNTY$1.5M
    84.047 · Trio Upward Bound· Department of Education· Project grant· May 31, 2023 – Jul 28, 2026· P047A220524
  4. DECIPHERING HELICOBACTER PYLORI'S GLYCOCODE: UNCOVERING & HARNESSING DRUG TARGETS$1.1M
    93.859 · Biomedical Research and Research Training· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Sep 9, 2021 – Nov 20, 2025· R15GM109397
  5. COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: BRIDGING PRESCHOOL AND KINDERGARTEN SCIENCE: EXPLORING PLAY-BASED ENGAGEMENT WITH SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING…$969.4K
    47.076 · Stem Education (Formerly Education and Human Resources)· National Science Foundation· Project grant· Jul 8, 2022 – Nov 20, 2025· 2201673
  6. DECIPHERING HELICOBACTER PYLORI'S GLYCOCODE: UNCOVERING AND HARNESSING DRUG TARGETS - ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT BACTERIAL PATHOGENS CAUSE MORE…$482.5K
    93.855 · Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Apr 27, 2026 – Apr 27, 2026· R15AI197224

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: $374.9K (3 subawards)

3 primes

  1. THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$300.1K80%
    BALTIMORE, MD · 1 subaward
  2. UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER$71.4K19%
    JACKSON, MS · 1 subaward
  3. ME DEPT OF EDUCATION$3,4370.9%
    AUGUSTA, ME · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $153K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $187.9K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $6.3M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $432.2K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $228K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $374.9K 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.

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.