Federal contractor · SPRINGFIELD, IL

ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION received $173.4K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1 awards (+3.5% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $1.6M. Its largest customer was Department of Education ($173.4K). It also received $2.7B in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$173.4K
New awards
1
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
NCA7EAUG2YK4
Parent company
ILLINOIS, STATE OF
Other than small businessGovernment entity
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 241.5KFY2017
  2. 236.2KFY2018
  3. 69.4KFY2019
  4. 196KFY2020
  5. 164.2KFY2021
  6. -13.3KFY2022
  7. 194.1KFY2023
  8. 194.4KFY2024
  9. 167.6KFY2025
  10. 173.4KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of Education$173.4K100%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$173.4K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Sangamon County, IL$173.4K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $173.4K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $173.4K
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · $0
  • 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.

Largest awards

  1. ILLINOIS - NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS (NAEP) STATE COORDINATOR$341K
    Department of Education· Sangamon County, IL· Professional services· Apr 1, 2025 – Sep 29, 2026· 91990025C0038

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.

ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION received $2.7B in federal assistance in FY2026, on 145 actions (30 new awards), +8.5% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 10.555 · National School Lunch Program ($987.7M).

Assistance · FY2026
$2.7B
New awards
30
Actions
145
Since FY2021
$22.9B

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 9.6BFY2021
  2. 2.7BFY2022
  3. 2.7BFY2023
  4. 2.8BFY2024
  5. 2.4BFY2025
  6. 2.7BFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$2.7B100%

Top programs

  1. 10.555 · National School Lunch Program$987.7M37%
  2. 84.010 · Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies$747.6M28%
  3. 84.027 · Special Education Grants to States$596.5M22%
  4. 84.367 · Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants (Formerly Improving Teacher Quality State GRANTS)$72M2.7%
  5. 84.424 · Student Support and Academic Enrichment Program$54.5M2.1%
  6. 84.287 · Twenty-First Century Community Learning Centers$52.4M2.0%
  7. 84.048 · Career and Technical Education -- Basic Grants to States$50.7M1.9%
  8. 84.365 · English Language Acquisition State Grants$31.8M1.2%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Education$1.6B60%
  2. Food and Nutrition Service$1B38%
    Department of Agriculture
  3. Employment and Training Administration$50.7M1.9%
    Department of Labor
  4. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention$112.5K0.0%
    Department of Health and Human Services

Largest awards

  1. CNP CN BLOCK PROG$903.1M
    10.555 · National School Lunch Program· Food and Nutrition Service· Formula grant· Oct 24, 2023 – May 7, 2026· 242IL058N1199
  2. CNP CN BLOCK PROG$823.3M
    10.555 · National School Lunch Program· Food and Nutrition Service· Formula grant· Oct 26, 2022 – May 7, 2026· 232IL058N1199
  3. TITLE I PART A BASIC GRANTS TO LEAS$757.2M
    84.010 · Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies· Department of Education· Formula grant· Jul 1, 2025 – Oct 1, 2025· S010A250013
  4. CNP CN BLOCK PROG$639.6M
    10.555 · National School Lunch Program· Food and Nutrition Service· Formula grant· Oct 14, 2025 – Jul 9, 2026· 262IL058N1199
  5. CNP CN BLOCK PROG$633.3M
    10.555 · National School Lunch Program· Food and Nutrition Service· Formula grant· Oct 5, 2021 – May 7, 2026· 222IL058N1199
  6. STATE GRANT - B (611)$602.6M
    84.027 · Special Education Grants to States· Department of Education· Formula grant· Jul 1, 2025 – Oct 1, 2025· H027A250072

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

  • Sub-grants: $1.3B (4,430 subawards)

863 sub-recipients

  1. BOARD OF EDUCATION CITY OF CHICAGO$485.6M37%
    CHICAGO, IL · 36 subawards
  2. ROCKFORD BOARD OF EDUCATION$39M3.0%
    ROCKFORD, IL · 21 subawards
  3. BOARD OF EDUCATION CITY OF PEORIA DISTRICT 150$18.5M1.4%
    PEORIA, IL · 19 subawards
  4. ELGIN SCHOOL DISTRICT 46$17.6M1.3%
    ELGIN, IL · 18 subawards
  5. DAY CARE RESOURCES INC$17.1M1.3%
    PEKIN, IL · 27 subawards
  6. ASSOCIATION FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT$13.3M1.0%
    EAST LANSING, MI · 26 subawards
  7. DECATUR SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 61$11.9M0.9%
    DECATUR, IL · 20 subawards
  8. CICERO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT$11.6M0.9%
    CICERO, IL · 12 subawards
  9. JOLIET PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT$10.6M0.8%
    CREST HILL, IL · 14 subawards
  10. CHAMPAIGN COMMUNITY UNIT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 4$10M0.8%
    CHAMPAIGN, IL · 16 subawards

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $5.9B paid out · $0 received
  • FY2022: $8.2B paid out · $44.1K received
  • FY2023: $3B paid out · $0 received
  • FY2024: $2.4B paid out · $0 received
  • FY2025: $2.8B paid out · $0 received
  • FY2026: $1.3B paid out · $0 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

1,879 companies · $23.5B reported

  1. BOARD OF EDUCATION CITY OF CHICAGO$7.1B
    CHICAGO, IL · 580 subawards
  2. ROCKFORD BOARD OF EDUCATION$570.1M
    ROCKFORD, IL · 216 subawards
  3. ELGIN SCHOOL DISTRICT 46$445.4M
    ELGIN, IL · 266 subawards

Primes that pay it

1 company · $44.1K reported

  1. ILLINOIS EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY AND$44.1K
    SPRINGFIELD, IL · 1 subaward

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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 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 1 market (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. NORTH DAKOTA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION$534.9K−0.2% in FY2026
    BISMARCK, ND · 99.9% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEducation · Scientific research and development services
  2. STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION$531.8K+6.9% in FY2026
    OKLAHOMA CITY, OK · 99% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEducation · Scientific research and development services
  3. OHIO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION$545.6K+3.3% in FY2026
    COLUMBUS, OH · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEducation · Scientific research and development services

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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.

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.