Federal contractor · COLLEGE STATION, TX

TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION

TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION received $41.5K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1 awards. Since FY2017: $28.1K. Its largest customer was Bureau of Land Management ($41.5K). It also received $37M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$41.5K
New awards
1
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. -2.7KFY2017
  2. -10.7KFY2018
  3. 0FY2022
  4. 41.5KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Bureau of Land Management$41.5K100%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$41.5K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Brazos County, TX$41.5K100%

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. GENETIC ANALYSIS OF WILD HORSE AND BURRO HAIR FOLLICLE SAMPLES$41.5K
    Bureau of Land Management· Brazos County, TX· Professional services· Dec 10, 2025 – Jul 21, 2026· 140L0126C0001

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.

TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION received $37M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 7 actions (2 new awards), −12% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 84.411 · Education Innovation and Research (Formerly Investing in Innovation (I3) FUND) ($30M).

Assistance · FY2026
$37M
New awards
2
Actions
7
Since FY2021
$362.1M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 66.7MFY2021
  2. 87.6MFY2022
  3. 81.3MFY2023
  4. 47.8MFY2024
  5. 41.8MFY2025
  6. 37MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$37M100%

Top programs

  1. 84.411 · Education Innovation and Research (Formerly Investing in Innovation (I3) FUND)$30M81%
  2. 47.050 · Geosciences$7M19%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Education$30M81%
  2. National Science Foundation$7M19%

Largest awards

  1. MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS OF THE JOIDES RESOLUTION AS A FACILITY FOR THE INTERNATIONAL OCEAN DISCOVERY PROGRAM (IODP)$640.7M
    47.050 · Geosciences· National Science Foundation· Cooperative agreement· Nov 19, 2020 – Apr 22, 2026· 1326927
  2. CLOSEOUT OF JOIDES RESOLUTION IODP EXPEDITION OBLIGATIONS AND OPERATION OF AN INSTRUMENTED GULF COAST REPOSITORY -THIS AWARD WILL ENABLE…$28.1M
    47.050 · Geosciences· National Science Foundation· Cooperative agreement· Oct 29, 2024 – Jul 27, 2026· 2412279
  3. A SCIENTIFIC OCEAN DRILLING COORDINATING OFFICE FOR THE US COMMUNITY -TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY (TAMU) AND COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (LDEO)…$25M
    47.050 · Geosciences· National Science Foundation· Cooperative agreement· Feb 28, 2025 – Jul 27, 2026· 2444315
  4. RURAL OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH LITERACY, OBSERVATION, TUTORING, AND STEM (ROOTS)$15M
    84.411 · Education Innovation and Research (Formerly Investing in Innovation (I3) FUND)· Department of Education· Project grant· Dec 15, 2025 – Dec 15, 2025· S411A250016
  5. ENABLE MIDDLE-GRADERS WITH POWERFUL READING COMPREHENSION (EMPOWER)$15M
    84.411 · Education Innovation and Research (Formerly Investing in Innovation (I3) FUND)· Department of Education· Project grant· Dec 15, 2025 – Aug 4, 2026· S411A250007

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

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $65.5K paid out · $0 received
  • FY2022: $65K paid out · $150K received
  • FY2023: $65K paid out · $1.2M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $324K received
  • FY2025: $8.4M paid out · $65K 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

3 companies · $8.6M reported

  1. THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK$6.5M
    NEW YORK, NY · 3 subawards
  2. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO$1.9M
    LA JOLLA, CA · 1 subaward
  3. RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY$195.5K
    PISCATAWAY, NJ · 3 subawards

Primes that pay it

3 companies · $1.7M reported

  1. SOUTHEAST COASTAL OCEAN OBSERVING REGIONAL ASSOCIATION$1.1M
    MOUNT PLEASANT, SC · 1 subaward
  2. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$495K
    LEXINGTON, MA · 4 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  3. THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC$174K
    LAUREL, MD · 1 subaward

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.

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.