Recipient of federal assistance · HOUSTON, TX

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM received $49.7M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026, on 127 actions, −7.6% vs FY2025. It has no federal contracts in the loaded years. Since FY2021: $273.1M. Its largest awarding agency was Department of Education ($49.7M).

Assistance · FY2026
$49.7M
New awards
7
Actions
127
Since FY2021
$273.1M
UEI
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Location
HOUSTON, TX
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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. 55.2MFY2021
  2. 22.9MFY2022
  3. 43.9MFY2023
  4. 47.6MFY2024
  5. 53.8MFY2025
  6. 49.7MFY2026

By type

  1. Direct payments$48.8M98%
  2. Grants$882.1K1.8%

Top programs · Awarding agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Top programs

  1. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program$47.4M95%
  2. 84.047 · Trio Upward Bound$896.9K1.8%
  3. 84.007 · Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants$820K1.7%
  4. 84.033 · Federal Work-Study Program$600K1.2%
  5. 84.379 · Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education Grants (Teach GRANTS)$26.1K0.1%
  6. 84.044 · Trio Talent Search$1.000.0%
  7. 77.007 · U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Minority Serving Institutions Program (MSIP)-$1,4200.0%
  8. 93.243 · Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance-$6,3550.0%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Education$49.7M100%

Largest awards

  1. GRANT PROGRAM$48.6M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 21, 2024 – Nov 17, 2025· P063P242306
  2. GRANT PROGRAM$47.6M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 19, 2025 – Sep 18, 2026· P063P252306
  3. GRANT PROGRAM$18.4M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 19, 2026 – Sep 10, 2026· P063P262306
  4. UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON - DOWNTOWN UPWARD BOUND PROGRAM$3M
    84.047 · Trio Upward Bound· Department of Education· Project grant· May 23, 2022 – Jul 27, 2026· P047A220023
  5. UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON - DOWNTOWN UPWARD BOUND PROGRAM - YATES HIGH SCHOOL$1.5M
    84.047 · Trio Upward Bound· Department of Education· Project grant· May 23, 2022 – Jul 29, 2026· P047A220140
  6. TALENT SEARCH PROJECT UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON - DOWNTOWN$1.4M
    84.044 · Trio Talent Search· Department of Education· Project grant· Aug 19, 2022 – Aug 28, 2026· P044A221044

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: $345K (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. TEXAS WORKFORCE COMMISSION$345K100%
    AUSTIN, TX · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $58.5K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $1.6M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $414.7K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $345K 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.