Recipient of federal assistance · BOILING SPRINGS, NC

GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY

GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY received $7.1M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026, on 77 actions, +24% vs FY2025. It has no federal contracts in the loaded years. Since FY2021: $33.2M. Its largest awarding agency was Department of Education ($4.9M).

Assistance · FY2026
$7.1M
New awards
7
Actions
77
Since FY2021
$33.2M
UEI
UBS3G4A9WBH1
Other recipients

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. 8.6MFY2021
  2. 1.8MFY2022
  3. 4.9MFY2023
  4. 5MFY2024
  5. 5.8MFY2025
  6. 7.1MFY2026

By type

  1. Direct payments$4.9M69%
  2. Grants$2.2M31%

Top programs · Awarding agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Top programs

  1. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program$4.5M63%
  2. 84.031 · Higher Education Institutional Aid$938.9K13%
  3. 93.359 · Nurse Education, Practice Quality and Retention Grants$753.2K11%
  4. 93.732 · Mental and Behavioral Health Education and Training Grants$529.8K7.4%
  5. 84.033 · Federal Work-Study Program$300K4.2%
  6. 84.007 · Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants$140K2.0%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Health and Human Services
  2. Department of Labor

Largest awards

  1. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Sep 3, 2025 – Sep 15, 2026· P063P251929
  2. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Sep 3, 2026 – Sep 16, 2026· P063P261929
  3. 93.732 · Mental and Behavioral Health Education and Training Grants· Health Resources and Services Administration· Project grant· Jun 18, 2025 – Jul 24, 2026· M0154859
  4. 84.031 · Higher Education Institutional Aid· Employment and Training Administration· Grant· Sep 15, 2026 – Sep 15, 2026· 26D60SI000095
  5. 93.359 · Nurse Education, Practice Quality and Retention Grants· Health Resources and Services Administration· Project grant· Sep 23, 2026 – Sep 23, 2026· TR456263
  6. 84.033 · Federal Work-Study Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Apr 1, 2026 – Apr 1, 2026· P033A263100

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: $62.4K (2 subawards)

1 prime

  1. RALEIGH, NC · 2 subawards

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $37.5K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $42K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $1.2M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $62.4K 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.