Federal contractor · COLUMBUS, OH

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, THE

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, THE received $1.5M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 16 awards (−71% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $107.3M. Its largest customer was Food and Drug Administration ($733.6K). It also received $404M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$1.5M
New awards
16
Sole-source
1.4%
Single offer
48%
UEI
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Parent company
CENTRAL OHIO TECHNICAL COLLEGE
Other than small businessEducational institutionGovernment entity
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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

8 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $4.3M in FY2026 together.

  1. OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, THECOLUMBUS, OH · Family page
    $1.5M
  2. OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, THECOLUMBUS, OH
    $2.2M
  3. UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDOTOLEDO, OH
    $541.3K
  4. THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITYCOLUMBUS, OH
    $67.6K
  5. OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, THECOLUMBUS, OH
    $0
  6. THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITYCOLUMBUS, OH
    $0
  7. THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITYCOLUMBUS, OH
    $0
  8. UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDOTOLEDO, OH
    $0

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-10-05

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 18.4MFY2017
  2. 16.2MFY2018
  3. 17.7MFY2019
  4. 13.8MFY2020
  5. 20.8MFY2021
  6. 7.1MFY2022
  7. 3.6MFY2023
  8. 2.9MFY2024
  9. 5.3MFY2025
  10. 1.5MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Food and Drug Administration$733.6K48%
    3 awards
  2. National Institutes of Health$380K25%
    2 awards
  3. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency$200K13%
    1 awards
  4. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration$180K12%
    1 awards
  5. Department of the Army$22.8K1.5%
    1 awards
  6. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$18.5K1.2%
    3 awards
  7. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention$00.0%
    1 awards
  8. Department of Veterans Affairs$00.0%
    1 awards
  9. Department of the Air Force$00.0%
    1 awards
  10. Defense Health Agency$00.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$718.1K46%
  2. Research & development$580K37%
  3. Education & social services$254.7K16%

Where the work was performed

  1. Montgomery County, MD$933.6K61%
  2. Franklin County, OH$619.3K40%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition50%
    US 39% · $761.4K
  • Sole-source awards1.4%
    US 30% · $21.3K
  • Single-offer competitions48%
    US 8.7% · $740.2K
  • 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.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Department of the Army$22.8K
    Department of Defense · 1 awards
  2. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$18.5K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. WOMEN'S HEALTH INITIATIVE (WHI) - REGIONAL CENTER (RC) - TASK AREA A$4.3M
    National Institutes of Health· Franklin County, OH· Research & development· Oct 15, 2020 – Aug 10, 2026· 75N92021F00001
  2. FY20 NEW START JW200164$3.4M
    Defense Health Agency· Franklin County, OH· Research & development· Sep 24, 2021 – Nov 20, 2025· W81XWH21C0047
  3. WOMEN'S HEALTH INITIATIVE (WHI) REGIONAL CENTER (RC): TASK AREA A AND A2$2.1M
    National Institutes of Health· Franklin County, OH· Research & development· Sep 26, 2025 – Aug 10, 2026· 75N92025F00001
  4. RESEARCH - EFFECTS OF PRECONCEPTION STRESS AND ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE.$1.5M
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Essex County, NJ· Research & development· Aug 8, 2024 – Jun 23, 2026· 36C24224C0113
  5. THE DETERMINATION OF REPEATABILITY (R) AND REPRODUCIBILITY (R) FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF TOTAL PARTICULATE MATTER AND NICOTINE IN COMBUSTIBLE AND ELECTRONIC NICOTINE DELIVERY SYSTEMS (ENDS) USING A UNIVERSAL SMOKING MACHINE ADAPTOR (USMA).$1.4M
    Food and Drug Administration· Montgomery County, MD· Professional services· Sep 10, 2025 – May 13, 2026· 75F40125C00034
  6. LEARNING WITH CONFIDENCE FOR MULTI-SENSOR EXPLOITATION$1.2M
    Department of the Air Force· Franklin County, OH· Research & development· Sep 28, 2021 – Apr 2, 2026· FA865021C1174
  7. THE FDA OFFICE OF TRAINING EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT (OTED) HAS A FOOD PROCESSING & TECHNOLOGY COURSE (FD 152) THAT IS A PART OF THE MANUFACTURED FOOD CURRICULUM FOR TRAINING FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL AND TRIBAL INVESTIGATORS/INSPECTORS TO CONDUCT TH$698.4K
    Food and Drug Administration· Montgomery County, MD· Education & social services· Apr 27, 2023 – Sep 22, 2026· 75F40123C00044
  8. TESTING OF PARENTERALLY ADMINISTERED LIVE ATTENUATED ROTAVIRUS$248K
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention· DeKalb County, GA· Professional services· Sep 5, 2024 – Jun 9, 2026· 75D30124P19961

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.

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, THE received $404M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 1,730 actions (283 new awards), −15% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 93.837 · Cardiovascular Diseases Research ($42.6M).

Assistance · FY2026
$404M
New awards
283
Actions
1,730
Since FY2021
$2.7B

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 402.6MFY2021
  2. 449.2MFY2022
  3. 475.4MFY2023
  4. 483.9MFY2024
  5. 474.5MFY2025
  6. 404MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$401.8M99%
  2. Other assistance$2.2M0.6%

Top programs

  1. 93.837 · Cardiovascular Diseases Research$42.6M11%
  2. 93.855 · Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research$32.6M8.1%
  3. 93.395 · Cancer Treatment Research$23M5.7%
  4. 93.859 · Biomedical Research and Research Training$22.7M5.6%
  5. 93.853 · Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders$19.5M4.8%
  6. 93.866 · Aging Research$15M3.7%
  7. 93.867 · Vision Research$13.1M3.2%
  8. 93.242 · Mental Health Research Grants$12.4M3.1%

Awarding agencies

  1. National Institutes of Health$288.7M71%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  2. National Science Foundation$30.9M7.6%
  3. Administration for Children and Families$9.8M2.4%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  4. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention$6.7M1.7%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  5. Federal Aviation Administration$6.4M1.6%
    Department of Transportation
  6. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$6.3M1.6%
  7. Department of Education$5.9M1.5%
  8. National Endowment for the Humanities$5M1.2%

Largest awards

  1. THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER$101.3M
    93.397 · Cancer Centers Support Grants· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Jan 25, 2021 – Apr 21, 2026· P30CA016058
  2. OPTIMIZING HEALING IN OHIO COMMUNITIES (OHIO)$61.6M
    93.279 · Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs· National Institutes of Health· Cooperative agreement· Apr 8, 2021 – Aug 5, 2026· UM1DA049417
  3. EARLY HEAD START$27.2M
    93.600 · Head Start· Administration for Children and Families· Project grant· Jul 17, 2024 – Jul 16, 2026· 05CH012745
  4. NSF ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER FOR HYBRID AUTONOMOUS MANUFACTURING MOVING FROM EVOLUTION TO REVOLUTION (ERC-HAMMER) -THE ENGINEERING…$25.7M
    47.041 · Engineering· National Science Foundation· Cooperative agreement· Aug 9, 2022 – Sep 3, 2026· 2133630
  5. RESEARCH IN HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS$24.3M
    81.049 · Office of Science Financial Assistance Program· Department of Energy· Project grant· Apr 8, 2021 – Apr 14, 2026· DESC0011726
  6. DISCOVERY OF ANTICANCER AGENTS OF DIVERSE NATURAL ORGIN$24.2M
    93.395 · Cancer Treatment Research· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Oct 20, 2020 – Aug 26, 2026· P01CA125066

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-contracts: $1.1M (6 subawards)
  • Sub-grants: $31.4M (222 subawards)

136 sub-recipients

  1. UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE$2M6.1%
    BURLINGTON, VT · 8 subawards
  2. REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$1.8M5.7%
    ANN ARBOR, MI · 5 subawards
  3. RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$1.7M5.1%
    COLUMBUS, OH · 10 subawards
  4. OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, THE$1M3.2%
    COLUMBUS, OH · 4 subawards
  5. OHIO STATE GLOBAL ONE HEALTH LLC$962.2K3.0%
    COLUMBUS, OH · 4 subawards
  6. TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY$950.5K2.9%
    BLOOMINGTON, IN · 5 subawards
  7. OHIO STATE GLOBAL ONE HEALTH, LLC$912K2.8%
    ADDIS ABABA, ETH · 2 subawards
  8. CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY$870K2.7%
    CLEVELAND, OH · 3 subawards
  9. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$847.1K2.6%
    CHICAGO, IL · 4 subawards
  10. REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$738.5K2.3%
    MINNEAPOLIS, MN · 1 subaward

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-contracts: $6.2M (16 subawards)
  • Sub-grants: $52.4M (268 subawards)

127 primes

  1. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$5M8.6%
    CHICAGO, IL · 3 subawards
  2. OHIO DEPARTMENT MENTAL HEALTH$4.4M7.5%
    COLUMBUS, OH · 7 subawards
  3. UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION$3.5M6.0%
    PITTSBURGH, PA · 12 subawards
  4. RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$3.3M5.6%
    COLUMBUS, OH · 9 subawards
  5. TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH CENTER INC$2.9M4.9%
    EAST LIBERTY, OH · 6 subawards
  6. JOB AND FAMILY SERVICES, OHIO DEPARTMENT OF$2.3M3.9%
    COLUMBUS, OH · 1 subaward
  7. CITY OF COLUMBUS$1.8M3.0%
    COLUMBUS, OH · 4 subawards
  8. CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY$1.7M2.9%
    CLEVELAND, OH · 5 subawards
  9. THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$1.4M2.4%
    UNIVERSITY PARK, PA · 5 subawards
  10. THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$1.4M2.3%
    BALTIMORE, MD · 4 subawards

Its reported sub-contracts equal 72% of its FY2026 contract obligations.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $68.3M paid out · $125.6M received
  • FY2022: $95.3M paid out · $122.9M received
  • FY2023: $75M paid out · $131.4M received
  • FY2024: $81.2M paid out · $84.3M received
  • FY2025: $50.9M paid out · $92.9M received
  • FY2026: $32.4M paid out · $58.6M 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

476 companies · $407.1M reported

  1. RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$18.7M
    COLUMBUS, OH · 88 subawards
  2. CINCINNATI UNIV OF$14.2M
    CINCINNATI, OH · 20 subawards
  3. CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY$13.9M
    CLEVELAND, OH · 21 subawards

Primes that pay it

312 companies · $824.8M reported

  1. OHIO$151.5M
    COLUMBUS, OH · 7 subawards
  2. JOB AND FAMILY SERVICES, OHIO DEPARTMENT OF$111.1M
    COLUMBUS, OH · 6 subawards
  3. OHIO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY, EMERGENCY MANAGMENT AGENCY$54.2M
    COLUMBUS, OH · 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 26 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. INFORMATION SYSTEMS LABORATORIES INC$12.5M−52% in FY2026
    POWAY, CA · 2 entities · 41% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development servicesNavy · Scientific research and development services
  2. NORTHWEST RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC.$12.1M−49% in FY2026
    SEATTLE, WA · 39% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development servicesNavy · Scientific research and development servicesNavy · Software publishers
  3. SMART INFORMATION FLOW TECHNOLOGIES LLC$18.5M−50% in FY2026
    MINNEAPOLIS, MN · 43% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Scientific research and development servicesNavy · Scientific research and development servicesDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency · Scientific research and development services+1 more

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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.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Across the company family of OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, THE (8 recipients).

Matched organizations

  • The Ohio State UniversityAI match · 100%
  • The University of ToledoAI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$363.3K
12 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$1.2M
$1.2M in its own reports

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$333K
    8 reports
  2. 2024$258.2K
    10 reports
  3. 2025$363.3K
    12 reports
  4. 2026$207.5K
    6 reports

Top issues

  1. Education29 reports
  2. Budget and appropriations28 reports
  3. Health issues27 reports
  4. Science and technology25 reports
  5. Medicare and Medicaid22 reports
  6. Agriculture14 reports
  7. Clean air and water14 reports
  8. Energy and nuclear14 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES29 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE27 reports
  3. Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)12 reports
  4. Defense - Dept of (DOD)9 reports
  5. Education - Dept of8 reports
  6. Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA)1 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

  1. Van Scoyoc Associates$350K
    14 reports
  2. Shumaker Advisors, LLC$180K
    8 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Oct 5, 2026.

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.