Federal contractor · SAINT PAUL, MN

MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION received $186.3K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1 awards (+20% vs FY2025). Since FY2020: $1.3M. Its largest customer was Department of Education ($186.3K). It also received $942.7M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$186.3K
New awards
1
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 159.7KFY2020
  2. 163.7KFY2021
  3. 180.5KFY2022
  4. 205.4KFY2023
  5. 213.4KFY2024
  6. 155.1KFY2025
  7. 186.3KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of Education$186.3K100%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$186.3K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Ramsey County, MN$186.3K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $186.3K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $186.3K
  • 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. MINNESOTA - NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS (NAEP) STATE COORDINATOR$355K
    Department of Education· Ramsey County, MN· Professional services· Mar 26, 2025 – Jul 31, 2026· 91990025C0048

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.

MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION received $942.7M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 123 actions (32 new awards), +9.1% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 10.555 · National School Lunch Program ($415.4M).

Assistance · FY2026
$942.7M
New awards
32
Actions
123
Since FY2021
$8.4B

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 3.4BFY2021
  2. 1.3BFY2022
  3. 1.1BFY2023
  4. 862.6MFY2024
  5. 864.2MFY2025
  6. 942.7MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$942.7M100%

Top programs

  1. 10.555 · National School Lunch Program$415.4M44%
  2. 84.027 · Special Education Grants to States$235M25%
  3. 84.010 · Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies$177.4M19%
  4. 84.367 · Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants (Formerly Improving Teacher Quality State GRANTS)$25.7M2.7%
  5. 84.424 · Student Support and Academic Enrichment Program$13.2M1.4%
  6. 84.287 · Twenty-First Century Community Learning Centers$12.6M1.3%
  7. 84.365 · English Language Acquisition State Grants$10.4M1.1%
  8. 84.181 · Special Education-Grants for Infants and Families$8.9M0.9%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Education$501M53%
  2. Food and Nutrition Service$423M45%
    Department of Agriculture
  3. Administration for Children and Families$8M0.8%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  4. Employment and Training Administration$7.4M0.8%
    Department of Labor
  5. Institute of Museum and Library Services$3.2M0.3%
  6. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention$470K0.0%
    Department of Health and Human Services

Largest awards

  1. CNP CN BLOCK PROG$488.6M
    10.555 · National School Lunch Program· Food and Nutrition Service· Formula grant· Oct 5, 2021 – Jul 10, 2026· 222MN061N1199
  2. CNP CN BLOCK PROG$310.1M
    10.555 · National School Lunch Program· Food and Nutrition Service· Formula grant· Nov 7, 2024 – Mar 19, 2026· 252MN061N1199
  3. CNP CN BLOCK PROG$267.5M
    10.555 · National School Lunch Program· Food and Nutrition Service· Formula grant· Oct 14, 2025 – Jul 2, 2026· 262MN061N1199
  4. STATE GRANT - B (611)$232.9M
    84.027 · Special Education Grants to States· Department of Education· Formula grant· Jul 1, 2025 – Oct 1, 2025· H027A250087
  5. TITLE I PART A BASIC GRANTS TO LEAS$183.5M
    84.010 · Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies· Department of Education· Formula grant· Jul 1, 2025 – Oct 1, 2025· S010A250023
  6. CNP CN BLOCK PROGRAMS TOTAL CONSOLIDATED$145.5M
    10.555 · National School Lunch Program· Food and Nutrition Service· Formula grant· Dec 3, 2025 – Jul 2, 2026· 262MN061N1099

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.

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: $25.1M (623 subawards)

268 sub-recipients

  1. SW/WC SERVICE COOPERATIVE$4.4M17%
    MARSHALL, MN · 4 subawards
  2. YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH$3.3M13%
    MINNEAPOLIS, MN · 2 subawards
  3. INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 535$1.8M7.1%
    ROCHESTER, MN · 7 subawards
  4. REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$1.5M5.8%
    MINNEAPOLIS, MN · 1 subaward
  5. INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIST # 625$889.2K3.5%
    SAINT PAUL, MN · 5 subawards
  6. UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA$820.1K3.3%
    SAINT CLOUD, MN · 1 subaward
  7. CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND$757.1K3.0%
    WASHINGTON, DC · 1 subaward
  8. CASS LAKE BENA SCHOOLS$660.5K2.6%
    CASS LAKE, MN · 5 subawards
  9. ONAMIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS$633.4K2.5%
    ONAMIA, MN · 5 subawards
  10. FARIBAULT PUBLIC SCHOOLS DISTRICT OFFICE$629.6K2.5%
    FARIBAULT, MN · 4 subawards

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $863.9K (2 subawards)

2 primes

  1. MN DEPT OF HUMAN SERVICES$813.9K94%
    SAINT PAUL, MN · 1 subaward
  2. SHELBURNE FARMS$50K5.8%
    SHELBURNE, VT · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $1.6B paid out · $3.6M received
  • FY2022: $270.5M paid out · $1.7M received
  • FY2023: $563.9M paid out · $1.9M received
  • FY2024: $428M paid out · $2.1M received
  • FY2025: $79.7M paid out · $711.3K received
  • FY2026: $25.1M paid out · $863.9K 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.

Teaming partners

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

Companies it pays

714 companies · $2.9B reported

  1. INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIST # 625$511.3M
    SAINT PAUL, MN · 62 subawards
  2. MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT #1$320.1M
    MINNEAPOLIS, MN · 60 subawards
  3. ANOKA-HENNEPIN SCHOOL DISTRICT 11$77.2M
    ANOKA, MN · 46 subawards

Primes that pay it

2 companies · $10.6M reported

  1. MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES$10.6M
    SAINT PAUL, MN · 19 subawards
  2. SHELBURNE FARMS$50K
    SHELBURNE, VT · 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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. OHIO DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION$545.6K+3.3% in FY2026
    COLUMBUS, OH · 98% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEducation · Scientific research and development services
  2. NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT$565.2K+9.3% in FY2026
    ALBANY, NY · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveEducation · Scientific research and development services
  3. ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION$535.4K+3.5% in FY2026
    SPRINGFIELD, IL · 96% 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.