Recipient of federal assistance · DENVER, CO

METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER

METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER received $47.8M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026, on 299 actions, +4.1% vs FY2025. It has no federal contracts in the loaded years. Since FY2021: $277.5M. Its largest awarding agency was Department of Education ($45.7M).

Assistance · FY2026
$47.8M
New awards
8
Actions
299
Since FY2021
$277.5M
UEI
UP9BGM1JEM81
Location
DENVER, CO
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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. 82.8MFY2021
  2. 20.2MFY2022
  3. 39.3MFY2023
  4. 41.4MFY2024
  5. 46MFY2025
  6. 47.8MFY2026

By type

  1. Direct payments$44.4M93%
  2. Grants$3.4M7.1%

Top programs · Awarding agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Top programs

  1. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program$42.3M88%
  2. 84.033 · Federal Work-Study Program$1.1M2.3%
  3. 84.007 · Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants$1M2.1%
  4. 93.359 · Nurse Education, Practice Quality and Retention Grants$753.2K1.6%
  5. 93.925 · Scholarships for Health Professions Students From Disadvantaged Backgrounds$650K1.4%
  6. 84.184 · School Safely National Activities$495.8K1.0%
  7. 84.047 · Trio Upward Bound$467.2K1.0%
  8. 93.172 · Human Genome Research$341.7K0.7%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Education$45.7M96%
  2. Health Resources and Services Administration$1.4M2.9%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  3. National Institutes of Health$341.7K0.7%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  4. Washington Headquarters Services$203.2K0.4%
    Department of Defense
  5. National Science Foundation$168.6K0.4%
  6. National Endowment for the Arts$25K0.1%

Largest awards

  1. GRANT PROGRAM$41.3M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 4, 2025 – Sep 16, 2026· P063P251205
  2. GRANT PROGRAM$40.6M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 6, 2024 – Jul 6, 2026· P063P241205
  3. GRANT PROGRAM$18.7M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 5, 2026 – Sep 18, 2026· P063P261205
  4. SCHOLARSHIPS FOR DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS$3.3M
    93.925 · Scholarships for Health Professions Students From Disadvantaged Backgrounds· Health Resources and Services Administration· Project grant· Mar 30, 2021 – Dec 31, 2025· T0839303
  5. MSU DENVER'S TRIO HIGH SCHOOL UPWARD BOUND$2.3M
    84.047 · Trio Upward Bound· Department of Education· Project grant· Sep 19, 2022 – Jul 27, 2026· P047A221611
  6. POSTBACCALAUREATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR HISPANIC AMERICANS IN DENVER (POHA-DENVER) NUTRITION MASTERS DEGREE PROGRAM$2M
    84.031 · Higher Education Institutional Aid· Department of Education· Project grant· Jul 15, 2021 – Jun 1, 2026· P031M190041

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: $8,250 (1 subaward)

1 sub-recipient

  1. COUNTIES OF ADAMS & WELD SCHOOL DISTRICT 27J$8,250100%
    BRIGHTON, CO · 1 subaward

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $204.5K (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. BOARD OF EDUCATION COLORADO$204.5K100%
    DENVER, CO · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $3.2M received
  • FY2022: $120.5K paid out · $491.3K received
  • FY2024: $313.3K paid out · $992.1K received
  • FY2025: $217K paid out · $359.4K received
  • FY2026: $8,250 paid out · $204.5K received
  • FY2027: $119.2K 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.