Recipient of federal assistance · FAIRFIELD, CT

SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED

SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED received $11.3M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026, on 154 actions, −2.6% vs FY2025. It has no federal contracts in the loaded years. Since FY2021: $76.6M. Its largest awarding agency was Department of Education ($9.8M).

Assistance · FY2026
$11.3M
New awards
7
Actions
154
Since FY2021
$76.6M
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Location
FAIRFIELD, CT
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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. 21.1MFY2021
  2. 11MFY2022
  3. 9.8MFY2023
  4. 11.8MFY2024
  5. 11.6MFY2025
  6. 11.3MFY2026

By type

  1. Direct payments$9.6M85%
  2. Grants$1.7M15%

Top programs · Awarding agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Top programs

  1. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program$7.5M66%
  2. 84.033 · Federal Work-Study Program$1.8M16%
  3. 93.359 · Nurse Education, Practice Quality and Retention Grants$753.1K6.7%
  4. 93.247 · Advanced Nursing Education Workforce Grant Program$650K5.7%
  5. 84.047 · Trio Upward Bound$350.5K3.1%
  6. 84.007 · Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants$348K3.1%
  7. 47.076 · Stem Education (Formerly Education and Human Resources)$129.2K1.1%
  8. 84.379 · Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education Grants (Teach GRANTS)$15.7K0.1%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Education$9.8M86%
  2. Health Resources and Services Administration$1.4M12%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  3. National Science Foundation$129.2K1.1%

Largest awards

  1. GRANT PROGRAM$7.6M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Jul 10, 2025 – Aug 25, 2026· P063P251224
  2. ADVANCED NURSING EDUCATION WORKFORCE$5M
    93.247 · Advanced Nursing Education Workforce Grant Program· Health Resources and Services Administration· Project grant· May 28, 2021 – Jun 23, 2026· T9432891
  3. CAMPUS BASED-FWS$1.8M
    84.033 · Federal Work-Study Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Apr 1, 2026 – Apr 1, 2026· P033A260791
  4. BEHAVIORAL HEALTH WORKFORCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAM$1.7M
    93.732 · Mental and Behavioral Health Education and Training Grants· Health Resources and Services Administration· Project grant· May 25, 2021 – Feb 18, 2026· M0141987
  5. SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY UPWARD BOUND PROGRAM$1.7M
    84.047 · Trio Upward Bound· Department of Education· Project grant· May 23, 2022 – Jul 29, 2026· P047A220734
  6. PUBLIC HEALTH SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM - ADDRESS: 5151 PARK AVE., FAIRFIELD, CT 06825 PROJECT DIRECTOR: JACQUELINE A. VERNARELLI, PH.D., PROGRAM…$1.5M
    93.516 · Public Health Training Centers Program· Health Resources and Services Administration· Project grant· Sep 7, 2022 – Nov 20, 2025· T5246774

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

  • Sub-grants: $5,711 (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. CT DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION$5,711100%
    HARTFORD, CT · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $61.8K received
  • FY2022: $52.6K paid out · $1.5M received
  • FY2023: $58K paid out · $102.9K received
  • FY2024: $419.2K paid out · $331.2K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $5,711 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.