Federal contractor · SIOUX FALLS, SD

SANFORD RESEARCH

SANFORD RESEARCH received $894.1K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1 awards (+303% vs FY2025). Since FY2018: $4.8M. Its largest customer was National Institutes of Health ($894.1K). It also received $8M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$894.1K
New awards
1
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Parent company
SANFORD HEALTH
Other than small businessNonprofit
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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.

6 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $1.1M in FY2026 together.

  1. SANFORD RESEARCHSIOUX FALLS, SD · Family page
    $894.1K
  2. MAVERICK AIR CENTER LLCSIOUX FALLS, SD
    $213.4K
  3. SANFORD HEALTHSIOUX FALLS, SD
    $34.5K
  4. SANFORD BISMARCKBISMARCK, ND
    $22.4K
  5. SANFORD HEALTH NETWORKCHAMBERLAIN, SD
    $0
  6. SANFORD MEDICAL CENTERSIOUX FALLS, SD
    -$82.7K

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 580.8KFY2018
  2. 76KFY2019
  3. 539.9KFY2020
  4. 856.9KFY2021
  5. -71.9KFY2022
  6. -250.8KFY2023
  7. 2MFY2024
  8. 222KFY2025
  9. 894.1KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. National Institutes of Health$894.1K100%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$894.1K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Minnehaha County, SD$894.1K100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition0.0%
    US 39% · $0
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • 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. CONNECT TASK ORDER 8$2.5M
    National Institutes of Health· Minnehaha County, SD· Professional services· Sep 25, 2024 – Aug 19, 2026· 75N91024F00001

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.

SANFORD RESEARCH received $8M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 28 actions (3 new awards), −0.7% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 93.859 · Biomedical Research and Research Training ($4.5M).

Assistance · FY2026
$8M
New awards
3
Actions
28
Since FY2021
$42.1M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 4.5MFY2021
  2. 8.7MFY2022
  3. 6.3MFY2023
  4. 6.6MFY2024
  5. 8MFY2025
  6. 8MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$8M100%

Top programs

  1. 93.859 · Biomedical Research and Research Training$4.5M57%
  2. 93.399 · Cancer Control$881.6K11%
  3. 93.847 · Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research$600.6K7.6%
  4. 93.394 · Cancer Detection and Diagnosis Research$546.3K6.9%
  5. 93.121 · Oral Diseases and Disorders Research$452.7K5.7%
  6. 93.837 · Cardiovascular Diseases Research$415K5.2%
  7. 93.242 · Mental Health Research Grants$415K5.2%
  8. 93.396 · Cancer Biology Research$60.3K0.8%

Awarding agencies

  1. National Institutes of Health$8M100%
    Department of Health and Human Services

Largest awards

  1. CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH$24.2M
    93.859 · Biomedical Research and Research Training· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Sep 8, 2021 – Apr 21, 2026· P20GM103620
  2. SANFORD COMMUNITY CANCER PROGRAM OF THE NORTH CENTRAL PLAINS$13.6M
    93.399 · Cancer Control· National Institutes of Health· Cooperative agreement· Jul 15, 2021 – Sep 21, 2026· UG1CA189825
  3. CENTER FOR CANCER BIOLOGY RESEARCH - THIS COBRE PHASE III APPLICATION AIMS TO CONTINUE SUPPORT FOR THE CENTER FOR CANCER BIOLOGY RESEARCH…$5M
    93.859 · Biomedical Research and Research Training· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Mar 24, 2023 – May 19, 2026· P30GM145398
  4. CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH - OVERALL PROJECT SUMMARY THE PRIMARY GOAL OF THIS APPLICATION IS TO CONTINUE TO HARNESS THE CAPABILITIES OF…$3.7M
    93.859 · Biomedical Research and Research Training· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Jun 18, 2024 – Jul 1, 2026· P30GM154633
  5. GENETIC ANALYSES OF MOLYBDENUM COFACTOR BIOLOGY - PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT MOLYBDENUM COFACTOR (MOCO) IS A 520-DALTON PROSTHETIC GROUP THAT…$2.1M
    93.859 · Biomedical Research and Research Training· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Aug 4, 2022 – Jun 18, 2026· R35GM146871
  6. DIETARY INTERVENTIONS TO MODULATE HEART HEALTH IN OFFSPRING BORN TO DIABETIC MOTHERS AND THE SUBSEQUENT GENERATION. - GESTATIONAL DIABETES…$2.1M
    93.837 · Cardiovascular Diseases Research· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Jan 10, 2022 – Feb 26, 2026· R01HL160980

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-grants: $790.9K (10 subawards)

10 sub-recipients

  1. MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$383.6K48%
    EAST LANSING, MI · 1 subaward
  2. REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, THE$65.7K8.3%
    SAN FRANCISCO, CA · 1 subaward
  3. THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO$64.7K8.2%
    AURORA, CO · 1 subaward
  4. SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY$62.2K7.9%
    BROOKINGS, SD · 1 subaward
  5. THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA$55K7.0%
    VERMILLION, SD · 1 subaward
  6. REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$52.3K6.6%
    ANN ARBOR, MI · 1 subaward
  7. MAYO CLINIC$44.4K5.6%
    ROCHESTER, MN · 1 subaward
  8. THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA$27.6K3.5%
    IOWA CITY, IA · 1 subaward
  9. EMORY UNIVERSITY$18K2.3%
    ATLANTA, GA · 1 subaward
  10. LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$17.3K2.2%
    MAYWOOD, IL · 1 subaward

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $535.6K (4 subawards)

3 primes

  1. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA$286.7K54%
    GRAND FORKS, ND · 2 subawards
  2. HUGO W. MOSER RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT KENNEDY KRIEGER, INC.$236.2K44%
    BALTIMORE, MD · 1 subaward
  3. UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO$12.6K2.4%
    ALBUQUERQUE, NM · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $807.7K paid out · $1.2M received
  • FY2022: $383.6K paid out · $2.1M received
  • FY2023: $652K paid out · $3M received
  • FY2024: $222.8K paid out · $936K received
  • FY2025: $121.8K paid out · $41.1K received
  • FY2026: $790.9K paid out · $535.6K 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

33 companies · $3.7M reported

  1. THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA$664.3K
    VERMILLION, SD · 4 subawards
  2. SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY$599.3K
    BROOKINGS, SD · 6 subawards
  3. NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY$464.4K
    FARGO, ND · 3 subawards

Primes that pay it

22 companies · $51.7M reported

  1. SOUTH DAKOTA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION$9.8M
    PIERRE, SD · 91 subawards
  2. NORTH DAKOTA, STATE OF$9.3M
    BISMARCK, ND · 2 subawards
  3. SOUTH DAKOTA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY$8.8M
    PIERRE, SD · 12 subawards

Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.

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 7 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH SOLUTIONS LLC$2.4M+13% in FY2026
    GAITHERSBURG, MD · 56% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Institutes of Health · Other professional, scientific, and technical services
  2. KOMAN ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT SERVICES, LLC$4.5M−62% in FY2026
    ANCHORAGE, AK · 72% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Institutes of Health · Other professional, scientific, and technical services
  3. IDEXX DISTRIBUTION, INC$4M+19% in FY2026
    WESTBROOK, ME · 68% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Institutes of Health · Other professional, scientific, and technical services

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

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 SANFORD RESEARCH (6 recipients).

Matched organizations

  • Sanford HealthAI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$720K
8 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$2.5M

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$720K
    8 reports
  2. 2024$720K
    8 reports
  3. 2025$720K
    8 reports
  4. 2026$360K
    4 reports

Top issues

  1. Medicare and Medicaid28 reports
  2. Budget and appropriations14 reports
  3. Health issues14 reports
  4. Immigration14 reports
  5. Medical and disease research, clinical labs9 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES28 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE28 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. BOCKORNY GROUP, INC.$1.4M
    14 reports
  2. Chamber Hill Strategies$1.1M
    14 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.