Recipient of federal assistance · NEWARK, NJ

NEWARK PUBLIC SCHOOLS

NEWARK PUBLIC SCHOOLS received $8.7M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026, on 24 actions, −24% vs FY2025. It has no federal contracts in the loaded years. Since FY2021: $72.5M. Its largest awarding agency was Administration for Children and Families ($6.4M).

Assistance · FY2026
$8.7M
New awards
0
Actions
24
Since FY2021
$72.5M
UEI
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Location
NEWARK, NJ
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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. 19.1MFY2021
  2. 10MFY2022
  3. 11.9MFY2023
  4. 11.3MFY2024
  5. 11.5MFY2025
  6. 8.7MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$8.7M100%

Top programs · Awarding agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Top programs

  1. 93.600 · Head Start$6.4M73%
  2. 93.243 · Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance$1.8M21%
  3. 93.079 · Cooperative Agreements to Promote Adolescent Health Through School-Based Surveillance and Risk Behavior Reduction$385K4.4%
  4. 93.136 · Injury Prevention and Control Research and State and Community Based Programs$120K1.4%

Awarding agencies

  1. Administration for Children and Families$6.4M73%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  2. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration$1.8M21%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention$505K5.8%
    Department of Health and Human Services

Largest awards

  1. HEAD START$40.3M
    93.600 · Head Start· Administration for Children and Families· Project grant· May 25, 2021 – Jul 15, 2026· 02CH011623
  2. HEAD START$18.6M
    93.600 · Head Start· Administration for Children and Families· Project grant· Jun 26, 2025 – Jun 12, 2026· 02CH013279
  3. PROJECT AWARE NEWARK - NEWARK PUBLIC SCHOOLS/NEWARK BOARD OF EDUCATION (NBOE)* IS NEW JERSEY’S LARGEST SCHOOL DISTRICT SERVING ONE OF THE…$7.2M
    93.243 · Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance· Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration· Project grant· Aug 10, 2023 – Sep 22, 2026· H79SM088346
  4. NEWARK HEALTH & WELLNESS PROJECT - NEWARK BOARD OF EDUCATION (NBOE), THE LARGEST SCHOOL DISTRICT IN NEW JERSEY, IS APPLYING FOR THE CDC…$1.2M
    93.136 · Injury Prevention and Control Research and State and Community Based Programs· Centers for Disease Control and Prevention· Cooperative agreement· Jul 25, 2024 – Sep 22, 2026· NU87DP000015

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

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $320.9M received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $39.2M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $113.8M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $150M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $34.7M 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.