Federal contractor · NASHVILLE, TN

FISK UNIVERSITY

No contract obligations recorded for FISK UNIVERSITY in FY2026. Since FY2017: $277K. It also received $9.6M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$0
New awards
0
Sole-source
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Single offer
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Other than small businessMinority-ownedNonprofitEducational institution
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 140.2KFY2017
  2. 146.8KFY2018
  3. -10KFY2021

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Obligations in FY2026.

No contract obligations recorded for FISK UNIVERSITY in FY2026.

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

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

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.

FISK UNIVERSITY received $9.6M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 75 actions (7 new awards), −30% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 84.116 · Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education ($4M).

Assistance · FY2026
$9.6M
New awards
7
Actions
75
Since FY2021
$79.7M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 18.7MFY2021
  2. 7.8MFY2022
  3. 18.7MFY2023
  4. 11.1MFY2024
  5. 13.8MFY2025
  6. 9.6MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$6.6M69%
  2. Direct payments$3M31%

Top programs

  1. 84.116 · Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education$4M42%
  2. 84.031 · Higher Education Institutional Aid$2.9M30%
  3. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program$2.6M27%
  4. 47.076 · Stem Education (Formerly Education and Human Resources)$420.6K4.4%
  5. 84.007 · Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants$237.5K2.5%
  6. 84.033 · Federal Work-Study Program$171.9K1.8%
  7. 84.047 · Trio Upward Bound$149K1.6%
  8. 84.042 · Trio Student Support Services-$297.6K0.0%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Education$9.7M100%
  2. National Science Foundation$420.6K4.4%

Largest awards

  1. HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES PROGRAM$14.6M
    84.031 · Higher Education Institutional Aid· Department of Education· Project grant· Aug 3, 2022 – Aug 29, 2026· P031B220090
  2. FISK UNIVERSITY - THE JUSTICE PROPULSION LAB INITIATIVE FOR CIVIL DISCOURSE, CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION, AND DEMOCRATIC HUMAN FLOURISHING: EX…$4M
    84.116 · Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education· Department of Education· Project grant· Dec 31, 2025 – Dec 31, 2025· P116J250944
  3. GRANT PROGRAM$3.4M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Sep 9, 2024 – Aug 22, 2026· P063P242227
  4. GRANT PROGRAM$3.1M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Sep 5, 2025 – Sep 10, 2026· P063P252227
  5. THE FISK-VANDERBILT BIOMEDICAL BRIDGE TO THE DOCTORATE$2.4M
    93.859 · Biomedical Research and Research Training· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Jul 21, 2021 – Jun 10, 2026· R25GM107754
  6. THE FISK UNIVERSITY UPWARD BOUND PROJECT WILL SERVE 60 LOW-INCOME, FIRST-GENERATION STUDENTS IN SOUTHEAST NASHVILLE, TN, HELPING THEM…$1.3M
    84.047 · Trio Upward Bound· Department of Education· Project grant· May 23, 2022 – Aug 1, 2026· P047A220310

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: $3.3M (7 subawards)

2 primes

  1. THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$3.2M96%
    UNIVERSITY PARK, PA · 3 subawards
  2. VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$146.7K4.4%
    NASHVILLE, TN · 4 subawards

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $19.8K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $585.5K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $1.3M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $2.6M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $2.3M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $3.3M 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 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

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

Companies it pays

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

6 companies · $10.2M reported

  1. THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$6.8M
    UNIVERSITY PARK, PA · 8 subawards
  2. VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$2M
    NASHVILLE, TN · 21 subawards
  3. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$669K
    URBANA, IL · 3 subawards

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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 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026.