Federal contractor · CHICAGO, IL

THE ADLER PLANETARIUM

No contract obligations recorded for THE ADLER PLANETARIUM in FY2026. It also received $912.5K in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$0
New awards
0
Sole-source
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Single offer
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 0FY2017

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

No contract obligations recorded for THE ADLER PLANETARIUM in FY2026.

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.

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.

THE ADLER PLANETARIUM received $912.5K in federal assistance in FY2026, on 3 actions (1 new awards), −55% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 43.001 · Science ($599.6K).

Assistance · FY2026
$912.5K
New awards
1
Actions
3
Since FY2021
$9.4M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 2.3MFY2021
  2. 3.8MFY2022
  3. 0FY2023
  4. 351.6KFY2024
  5. 2MFY2025
  6. 912.5KFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$912.5K100%

Top programs

  1. 43.001 · Science$599.6K66%
  2. 45.149 · Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access$312.8K34%

Awarding agencies

  1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$599.6K66%
  2. National Endowment for the Humanities$312.8K34%

Largest awards

  1. THIS PROPOSAL BUILDS ON A HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL NASA-ZOONIVERSE PARTNERSHIP AND ADVANCES A STRATEGIC HIGH-IMPACT EFFORT TO SCALE THE…$899.6K
    43.001 · Science· National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Cooperative agreement· Aug 20, 2025 – Sep 1, 2026· 80NSSC25M0025
  2. ADLER COLLECTIONS LIGHTING UPGRADE [THE PROPOSED PROJECT WILL REPLACE ALL EXISTING AGING LIGHTING IN THE ADLER PLANETARIUM GALLERY AND…$312.8K
    45.149 · Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access· National Endowment for the Humanities· Project grant· Dec 22, 2025 – Dec 23, 2025· PF30718926

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: $90.4K (1 subaward)

1 sub-recipient

  1. REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$90.4K100%
    MINNEAPOLIS, MN · 1 subaward

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $62.4K (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$62.4K100%
    URBANA, IL · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $919.6K paid out · $31.7K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $1,000 received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $34.9K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $123.1K received
  • FY2025: $230.7K paid out · $367.9K received
  • FY2026: $90.4K paid out · $62.4K 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 · $1.2M reported

  1. REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$860K
    MINNEAPOLIS, MN · 2 subawards
  2. YALE UNIV$230.7K
    NEW HAVEN, CT · 1 subaward
  3. UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA$150K
    TUCSON, AZ · 1 subaward

Primes that pay it

4 companies · $621K reported

  1. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$365.5K
    AUSTIN, TX · 1 subaward
  2. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$158.2K
    URBANA, IL · 6 subawards
  3. BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY$56.1K
    CARBONDALE, IL · 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.

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.