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MDRC

MDRC received $1.9M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 12 awards (−78% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $239.2M. Its largest customer was National Institutes of Health ($1.7M). It also received $4.2M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$1.9M
New awards
12
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
100%
UEI
ULJSBXBHRM15
Other than small businessNonprofit
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 38.9MFY2017
  2. 36.2MFY2018
  3. 44.9MFY2019
  4. 46.5MFY2020
  5. 11.4MFY2021
  6. 16.9MFY2022
  7. 9.7MFY2023
  8. 23.9MFY2024
  9. 8.8MFY2025
  10. 1.9MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. National Institutes of Health$1.7M90%
    1 awards
  2. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources$401.3K21%
    3 awards
  3. Department of Housing and Urban Development$190.7K9.9%
    2 awards
  4. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration-$399.8K0.0%
    6 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$1.9M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. New York County, NY$1.9M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $2.3M
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions100%
    US 8.8% · $2.3M
  • 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. EVIDENCE BUILDING IN TANF: ADVANCING INNOVATIONS TO PROMOTE EMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC SECURITY FOR LOW-INCOME INDIVIDUALS$48.6M
    Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration· New York County, NY· Professional services· Sep 26, 2017 – Aug 11, 2026· HHSP23337006T
  2. BUILDING BRIDGES AND BONDS$25.1M
    Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration· New York County, NY· Professional services· Oct 27, 2016 – Jun 25, 2026· HHSP23337008T
  3. FY18 - ACF - OPRE - HV - MIHOPE PROJECTS - MIHOPE LT-2 - NEW AWARD ( 0)$20.7M
    Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration· New York County, NY· Professional services· Sep 26, 2018 – Aug 4, 2026· 75P00118F37010
  4. IDENTIFYING AND TESTING CORE COMPONENTS IN RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD PROGRAMS (ACF)$18.6M
    National Institutes of Health· New York County, NY· Professional services· Aug 12, 2022 – May 18, 2026· 75N98022F00198
  5. MOTHERS AND INFANTS HOME VISITING PROGRAM EVALUATION - STRONG START (MIHOPE-SS)$15.7M
    Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration· New York County, NY· Professional services· Oct 27, 2016 – May 12, 2026· HHSP23337005T
  6. TAS::75 0321 000::TASDESIGN OPTIONS FOR MATERNAL INFANT EARLY CHILDHOOD HOME VISITING EVALUATION (DOHVE PROJECT)RTFO ACF 41782 1 487 293CAN G99UTTB 40 000$5.9M
    Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration· New York County, NY· Professional services· Jul 7, 2026 – Aug 4, 2026· HHSP23337001T
  7. APPLYING INSIGHTS FROM BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE TO IMPROVE PROGRAM EFFICIENCY$4.9M
    Office of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources· New York County, NY· Professional services· Sep 25, 2026 – Sep 25, 2026· 7571MN26F80097
  8. STEPPED AND TIERED RENT DEMONSTRATION (STRD) PHASE 2$4.5M
    Department of Housing and Urban Development· New York County, NY· Professional services· Sep 30, 2024 – Mar 2, 2026· 86614624F00007

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.

MDRC received $4.2M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 8 actions (0 new awards), −33% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 84.305 · Education Research, Development and Dissemination ($4.2M).

Assistance · FY2026
$4.2M
New awards
0
Actions
8
Since FY2021
$29.8M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 3.7MFY2021
  2. 4.3MFY2022
  3. 3.4MFY2023
  4. 8.1MFY2024
  5. 6.2MFY2025
  6. 4.2MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$4.2M100%

Top programs

  1. 84.305 · Education Research, Development and Dissemination$4.2M100%
  2. 93.595 · Welfare Reform Research, Evaluations and National Studies-$1,7980.0%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Education$4.2M100%

Largest awards

  1. NATIONAL EDUCATION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER FOR IMPROVING RURAL POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION$4M
    84.305 · Education Research, Development and Dissemination· Department of Education· Project grant· Sep 6, 2024 – Aug 28, 2026· R305C240065
  2. AN EXPERIENCED SCHOOL SUPPORT ORGANIZATION AT SCALE: A STUDY OF THE URBAN ASSEMBLY NETWORK$3.1M
    84.305 · Education Research, Development and Dissemination· Department of Education· Project grant· May 7, 2021 – Jun 24, 2026· R305A210292
  3. PROJECT REACT: A MULTISITE RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL TO IMPROVE COLLEGE RE-ENROLLMENT & COMPLETION FOR STOPPED-OUT STUDENTS$2.4M
    84.305 · Education Research, Development and Dissemination· Department of Education· Project grant· Jun 5, 2024 – Jun 24, 2026· R305A240245
  4. TEN-YEAR FOLLOW-UP OF TWO RCTS OF CUNY’S ASAP MODEL – EDUCATIONAL AND LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES$1.4M
    84.305 · Education Research, Development and Dissemination· Department of Education· Project grant· Jun 4, 2024 – Jun 24, 2026· R305A240240
  5. THIS RESEARCH PROJECT IS A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE CENTER FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE RESEARCH AT MDRC AND DR. MARGIE BALFOUR, A PSYCHIATRIST AND…$999.3K
    16.560 · National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants· Office of Justice Programs· Project grant· Sep 27, 2022 – May 11, 2026· 15PNIJ22GG03580RESS
  6. INVESTIGATING THE POTENTIAL OF MACHINE LEARNING METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING IMPACT VARIATION IN RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIALS$891.1K
    84.305 · Education Research, Development and Dissemination· Department of Education· Project grant· Mar 1, 2022 – Mar 2, 2026· R305D220028

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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-contracts: $74.4K (1 subaward)
  • Sub-grants: $1.6M (9 subawards)

10 sub-recipients

  1. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$299.4K18%
    NEW YORK, NY · 1 subaward
  2. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO$293.5K17%
    GREENSBORO, NC · 1 subaward
  3. TEACHERS COLLEGE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$289.2K17%
    NEW YORK, NY · 1 subaward
  4. THE RAND CORPORATION$202.6K12%
    SANTA MONICA, CA · 1 subaward
  5. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$157.5K9.4%
    AUSTIN, TX · 1 subaward
  6. TCS INNOVATIONS LLC$125.8K7.5%
    OPELIKA, AL · 1 subaward
  7. PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE$123.1K7.3%
    LEWISTON, ME · 1 subaward
  8. US CENSUS BUREAU$76K4.5%
    SUITLAND, MD · 1 subaward
  9. TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$74.4K4.4%
    PHILADELPHIA, PA · 1 subaward
  10. URBAN ASSEMBLY CHARTER SCHOOL FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE$40K2.4%
    NEW YORK, NY · 1 subaward

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $952.4K (3 subawards)

2 primes

  1. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$563K59%
    NEW YORK, NY · 1 subaward
  2. THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK$389.4K41%
    NEW YORK, NY · 2 subawards

Its reported sub-contracts equal 3.9% of its FY2026 contract obligations.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $15.4M paid out · $954K received
  • FY2022: $8.4M paid out · $433.2K received
  • FY2023: $4.3M paid out · $2.4M received
  • FY2024: $23M paid out · $3.1M received
  • FY2025: $15.1M paid out · $285.7K received
  • FY2026: $1.7M paid out · $952.4K 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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

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

Companies it pays

81 companies · $68.4M reported

  1. ABT GLOBAL LLC$16.7M
    ROCKVILLE, MD · 11 subawards · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
  2. MEF ASSOCIATES, LLC$13.6M
    ALEXANDRIA, VA · 18 subawards · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
  3. DECISION INFORMATION RESOURCES, INC$4.2M
    HOUSTON, TX · 5 subawards · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services

Primes that pay it

12 companies · $8.1M reported

  1. AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES$1.7M
    ARLINGTON, VA · 2 subawards
  2. THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK$1.6M
    NEW YORK, NY · 6 subawards
  3. DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES$1.2M
    ATLANTA, GA · 2 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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 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 8 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. CCS ASSOCIATES, INC.$14.6M+8.5% in FY2026
    SAN JOSE, CA · 38% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Institutes of Health · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
  2. CHILD TRENDS, INCORPORATED$18.7M+667% in FY2026
    ROCKVILLE, MD · 41% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDepartmental Offices · Management, scientific, and technical consulting servicesOffice of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
  3. MDB, INC.$13.3M+15% in FY2026
    WASHINGTON, DC · 36% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Institutes of Health · Management, scientific, and technical consulting servicesOffice of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources · Management, scientific, and technical consulting 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 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.