Federal contractor · NASHVILLE, TN

TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY

No contract obligations recorded for TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY in FY2026. Since FY2017: $640.5K. Its largest customer was Federal Railroad Administration ($0). It also received $54.9M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$0
New awards
1
Sole-source
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Single offer
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UEI
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Other than small businessEducational institutionGovernment entity
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 140.5KFY2017
  2. 128.5KFY2022
  3. 123.8KFY2023
  4. 123.8KFY2024
  5. 123.8KFY2025
  6. 0FY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Federal Railroad Administration$00.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

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

Largest awards

  1. THE SCOPE OF THE RESEARCH PART OF THIS PROJECT WILL INCLUDE THE APPLICATION OF AI/ML, SIMULATION AND SAFETY STATISTICAL MODELING IN RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION. THE EDUCATIONAL SCOPE WILL INCLUDE THE ENHANCEMENT OF THE CURRICULUM AND INTRODUCTION OF RAIL$500K
    Federal Railroad Administration· District of Columbia, DC· Research & development· Sep 13, 2022 – Aug 24, 2026· 693JJ622C000035

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.

TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY received $54.9M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 379 actions (28 new awards), −22% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program ($17M).

Assistance · FY2026
$54.9M
New awards
28
Actions
379
Since FY2021
$487.1M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 133.9MFY2021
  2. 54.2MFY2022
  3. 91.3MFY2023
  4. 82.3MFY2024
  5. 70.5MFY2025
  6. 54.9MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$36.5M67%
  2. Direct payments$18.3M33%
  3. Other assistance$38.6K0.1%

Top programs

  1. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program$17M31%
  2. 84.031 · Higher Education Institutional Aid$11.5M21%
  3. 10.205 · Payments to 1890 Land-Grant Colleges and Tuskegee University$5.4M9.8%
  4. 10.512 · Extension Services at 1890 Colleges and Tuskegee University, West Virginia State College, and Central State University$4.5M8.1%
  5. 47.076 · Stem Education (Formerly Education and Human Resources)$3.6M6.6%
  6. 93.600 · Head Start$2.7M5.0%
  7. 10.310 · Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI)$1.3M2.5%
  8. 10.326 · Capacity Building for Non-Land Grant Colleges of Agriculture (NLGCA)$1.3M2.4%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Education$30.1M55%
  2. National Institute of Food and Agriculture$15M27%
    Department of Agriculture
  3. National Science Foundation$4.7M8.6%
  4. Administration for Children and Families$2.7M5.0%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  5. National Park Service$1.3M2.3%
    Department of the Interior
  6. National Institutes of Health$1.1M2.0%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  7. Department of the Army$997.6K1.8%
    Department of Defense
  8. Health Resources and Services Administration$448K0.8%
    Department of Health and Human Services

Largest awards

  1. HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES PROGRAM$39.1M
    84.031 · Higher Education Institutional Aid· Department of Education· Project grant· Aug 3, 2022 – Aug 29, 2026· P031B220034
  2. GRANT PROGRAM$20.2M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Sep 8, 2022 – May 27, 2026· P063P220381
  3. CORONAVIRUS AID, RELIEF, AND ECONOMIC SECURITY (CARES) ACT FUNDING FOR TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY$18.9M
    84.425 · Education Stabilization Fund· Department of Education· Formula grant· Jan 17, 2021 – Apr 27, 2026· P425E200897
  4. GRANT PROGRAM$18.7M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Sep 10, 2024 – Jul 29, 2026· P063P240381
  5. GRANT PROGRAM$17.5M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Sep 11, 2023 – Aug 11, 2026· P063P230381
  6. GRANT PROGRAM$15.6M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Sep 3, 2025 – Sep 9, 2026· P063P250381

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

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $2.2M (27 subawards)

16 primes

  1. GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (THE)$345K16%
    WASHINGTON, DC · 1 subaward
  2. EXTENSION FOUNDATION$250K12%
    KANSAS CITY, MO · 2 subawards
  3. THE CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI$235K11%
    COLUMBIA, MO · 1 subaward
  4. VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$227.2K10%
    NASHVILLE, TN · 5 subawards
  5. UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE$188.3K8.7%
    KNOXVILLE, TN · 1 subaward
  6. TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY$178.3K8.2%
    COOKEVILLE, TN · 3 subawards
  7. MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY$163K7.5%
    MURFREESBORO, TN · 1 subaward
  8. NATIONAL 4-H COUNCIL$156.5K7.2%
    CHEVY CHASE, MD · 1 subaward
  9. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND ES$150K6.9%
    PRINCESS ANNE, MD · 1 subaward
  10. HUDSONALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY$99.8K4.6%
    HUNTSVILLE, AL · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $371.4K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $3.3M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $2.9M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $2.6M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $2.4M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $2.2M 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

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

36 companies · $14.1M reported

  1. VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$2.3M
    NASHVILLE, TN · 40 subawards
  2. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO$2M
    EL PASO, TX · 2 subawards
  3. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$876.8K
    URBANA, IL · 3 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 1 market (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY$176K
    OKLAHOMA CITY, OK · 71% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Railroad Administration · Scientific research and development services
  2. THERMADYNAMICS RAIL LLC$350K
    MANASSAS PARK, VA · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Railroad Administration · Scientific research and development services
  3. VTECH B.V.$358.4K0% in FY2026
    ROTTERDAM, NLD · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Railroad Administration · Scientific research and development 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.

Matched organizations

  • Tennessee State UniversityAI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2024
$120K
2 reports

Lobbying by year

  1. 2024$120K
    2 reports

Top issues

  1. Budget and appropriations2 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES2 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. Congressional Partners$120K
    2 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.