Recipient of federal assistance · MADISON, WI

THE MORGRIDGE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH, INC.

THE MORGRIDGE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH, INC. received $13.7M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026, on 19 actions, +82% vs FY2025. It has no federal contracts in the loaded years. Since FY2021: $40.5M. Its largest awarding agency was National Science Foundation ($9M).

Assistance · FY2026
$13.7M
New awards
2
Actions
19
Since FY2021
$40.5M
UEI
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Location
MADISON, WI
Nonprofits
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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. 2.5MFY2021
  2. 3.8MFY2022
  3. 8.8MFY2023
  4. 4.2MFY2024
  5. 7.5MFY2025
  6. 13.7MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$13.7M100%

Top programs · Awarding agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Top programs

  1. 47.070 · Computer and Information Science and Engineering$9M66%
  2. 93.837 · Cardiovascular Diseases Research$1.7M12%
  3. 93.394 · Cancer Detection and Diagnosis Research$1.4M9.9%
  4. 93.859 · Biomedical Research and Research Training$826.8K6.0%
  5. 93.865 · Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research$684.5K5.0%
  6. 93.855 · Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research$179.1K1.3%

Awarding agencies

  1. National Science Foundation$9M66%
  2. National Institutes of Health$4.7M34%
    Department of Health and Human Services

Largest awards

  1. CATEGORY I: FABRIC FOR AI-DRIVEN SCIENCE (FABAID) -THE NATIONAL-SCALE FABRIC FOR AI-DRIVEN SCIENCE (FABAID) WEAVES SERVICES AND…$9M
    47.070 · Computer and Information Science and Engineering· National Science Foundation· Cooperative agreement· May 22, 2026 – May 22, 2026· 2609485
  2. PELICAN: ADVANCING THE OPEN SCIENCE DATA FEDERATION PLATFORM -THE PELICAN SOFTWARE SUITE PROVIDES A PLATFORM THAT FACILITATES SHARING OF…$7.7M
    47.070 · Computer and Information Science and Engineering· National Science Foundation· Project grant· Aug 29, 2023 – Apr 3, 2026· 2331480
  3. LEVERAGING ZEBRAFISH MODELS TO DISSECT AND ENHANCE HEART REGENERATION$6.9M
    93.837 · Cardiovascular Diseases Research· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Apr 30, 2021 – Mar 27, 2026· R35HL150713
  4. STEM CELL PROLIFERATION AND DIFFERENTIATION IN PLANARIA$4M
    93.865 · Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· May 25, 2021 – Apr 28, 2026· R01HD043403
  5. FUNCTIONAL OPTICAL IMAGING FOR RAPID, LABEL-FREE PREDICTIONS OF TREATMENT RESPONSE AND CLONAL EVOLUTION IN PATIENT-DERIVED CANCER ORGANOIDS…$3.1M
    93.394 · Cancer Detection and Diagnosis Research· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Mar 31, 2023 – Apr 13, 2026· R01CA272855
  6. LABEL-FREE IMAGING OF CAR T CELL METABOLISM - PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT THE GOAL OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO DEVELOP NON-INVASIVE SINGLE-CELL…$2.6M
    93.394 · Cancer Detection and Diagnosis Research· National Institutes of Health· Project grant· Jul 28, 2023 – Jul 7, 2026· R01CA278051

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: $3.4M (6 subawards)

6 sub-recipients

  1. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM$2.5M72%
    MADISON, WI · 1 subaward
  2. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO$237K7.0%
    LA JOLLA, CA · 1 subaward
  3. BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA$224K6.6%
    LINCOLN, NE · 1 subaward
  4. PURDUE UNIVERSITY$169.5K5.0%
    WEST LAFAYETTE, IN · 1 subaward
  5. THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$151.6K4.5%
    PRINCETON, NJ · 1 subaward
  6. SWARTHMORE COLLEGE$150.9K4.5%
    SWARTHMORE, PA · 1 subaward

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $1.2M (8 subawards)

2 primes

  1. DUKE UNIVERSITY$704.9K58%
    DURHAM, NC · 1 subaward
  2. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM$518.3K42%
    MADISON, WI · 7 subawards

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $299.9K paid out · $4.8M received
  • FY2022: $1.6M paid out · $1.1M received
  • FY2023: $4.2M paid out · $2M received
  • FY2024: $2.4M paid out · $1.5M received
  • FY2025: $155.6K paid out · $1.2M received
  • FY2026: $3.4M paid out · $1.2M 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.

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.