Federal contractor · URBANA, IL

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS received $276.2K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 5 awards (+27% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $2.6M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($131.7K). It also received $64.6M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026: $276.2K
New awards: 5
Sole-source: 100%
Single offer: 0.0%

UEI: C11MNATAJ3K5
Parent company: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

Other than small businessEducational institutionGovernment entity

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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

Part of the UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS company family: 4 registered entities, $9.2M in FY2026 together. See the family

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISURBANA, IL · Family page
Reported parent$6.3M
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISCHICAGO, IL
Reported parent$2.6M
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISCHICAGO, IL
Reported parent$0

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

2.7KFY2017
-562.4KFY2018
866.6KFY2020
827KFY2021
346.5KFY2022
453.3KFY2023
204KFY2024
217.7KFY2025
276.2KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Department of the Navy$131.7K48%
3 awards
Department of the Army$131.3K48%
1 awards
Department of Veterans Affairs$13.1K4.8%
1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Education & social services$263K95%
Research & development$13.1K4.8%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

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

Low competition100%
US 39% · $276.2K
Sole-source awards100%
US 30% · $276.2K
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.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

Department of the Navy$131.7K
Department of Defense · 3 awards
Department of the Army$131.3K
Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

NON-PERSONAL SERVICE TO PROVIDE ALL LABOR, TRANSPORTATION, EQUIPMENT, MATERIALS, SUPERVISION AND OTHER ITEMS FOR SERVICES NECESSARY FOR TO MANAGE AND PERFORM FIREFIGHTER TRAINING SERVICES AT FORT MCCOY, WI. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE 4/7/2026 - 5/11/26.$131.3K
Department of the Army· Monroe County, WI· Education & social services· Mar 11, 2026 – Mar 11, 2026· W911SA26PA078
RATIFICATION OF GOVERNMENT-AT-FAULT RETROACTIVE TUITION FOR FALL 2025 NROTC MIDSHIPMEN TUITION AND ALLOWABLE FEES.$66.1K
Department of the Navy· Champaign County, IL· Education & social services· Dec 15, 2025 – Dec 15, 2025· N3560A26FB024
SPRING 2026 NROTC MIDSHIPMEN TUITION AND ALLOWABLE FEES$65.7K
Department of the Navy· Champaign County, IL· Education & social services· Mar 5, 2026 – Mar 5, 2026· N3560A26FB150
3T MRI SCANS FOR RESEARCH$34.1K
Department of Veterans Affairs· Cook County, IL· Research & development· May 16, 2024 – Jul 9, 2026· 36C24E24C0003
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FALL 2025 SEMESTER TUITION AND ALLOWABLE FEES$0
Department of the Navy· Champaign County, IL· Education & social services· Oct 7, 2025 – Nov 17, 2025· N3560A26FB012

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.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS received $64.6M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 189 actions (7 new awards), −2.3% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program ($60.3M).

Assistance · FY2026: $64.6M
New awards: 7
Actions: 189
Since FY2022: $268.2M

Assistance by fiscal year

24MFY2022
52.7MFY2023
60.7MFY2024
66.1MFY2025
64.6MFY2026

By type

Direct payments$64.6M100.0%
Grants$29.5K0.0%

Top programs

84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program$60.3M93%
84.033 · Federal Work-Study Program$3.3M5.1%
84.007 · Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants$1.1M1.6%
10.001 · Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research$29.5K0.0%
84.379 · Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education Grants (Teach GRANTS)$3,6930.0%

Awarding agencies

Department of Education$64.6M100.0%
Agricultural Research Service$29.5K0.0%
Department of Agriculture

Largest awards

GRANT PROGRAM$62.1M
84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 19, 2024 – Jul 6, 2026· P063P240118
GRANT PROGRAM$59.5M
84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 18, 2025 – Sep 17, 2026· P063P250118
GRANT PROGRAM$28.4M
84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 17, 2026 – Sep 18, 2026· P063P260118
CAMPUS BASED-FWS$3.3M
84.033 · Federal Work-Study Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Apr 1, 2026 – Apr 1, 2026· P033A261306
CAMPUS BASED-FSEOG$1.1M
84.007 · Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Apr 1, 2026 – Apr 1, 2026· P007A261306
PELL GRANTS$48.6K
84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Feb 19, 2026 – Sep 10, 2026· P063Q250118

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 · FY2022–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: $5M (3 subawards)

1 prime

IL DEPT. OF HUMAN SERVICES$5M100%
SPRINGFIELD, IL · 3 subawards

By fiscal year

FY2022: $0 paid out · $420K received
FY2024: $0 paid out · $125K received
FY2026: $0 paid out · $5M 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.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

601 companies · $691.2M reported

LINDE INC.$40.5M
DANBURY, CT · 5 subawards
UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC$25.9M
CHICAGO, IL · 113 subawards
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM$20.7M
MADISON, WI · 84 subawards

Primes that pay it

282 companies · $997.4M reported

ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICE$264.2M
SPRINGFIELD, IL · 208 subawards
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES ILLINOIS$62.9M
SPRINGFIELD, IL · 147 subawards
WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY$58.4M
NEW YORK, NY · 8 subawards

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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 39 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

KITWARE INC$47.1M−22% in FY2026
CLIFTON PARK, NY · 55% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development servicesDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency · Scientific research and development servicesNational Institutes of Health · Scientific research and development services+2 more
EXPEDITION TECHNOLOGY, LLC$35.7M−21% in FY2026
HERNDON, VA · 43% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development servicesDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency · Scientific research and development servicesNavy · Scientific research and development services
PRECISION COMBUSTION, INC.$19.4M−77% in FY2026
NORTH HAVEN, CT · 32% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development servicesNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Scientific research and development servicesNavy · Scientific research and development services

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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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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.

Across the company family of UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (4 recipients).

Matched organizations

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISAI match · 99%

Lobbying · 2025: $440K; 8 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026: $2M; $2M in its own reports

Lobbying by year

2023$610K
9 reports
2024$710K
12 reports
2025$440K
8 reports
2026$190K
5 reports

Top issues

Budget and appropriations28 reports
Medicare and Medicaid28 reports
Science and technology27 reports
Education22 reports
Agriculture20 reports
Defense17 reports
Health issues16 reports
Sports and athletics14 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES29 reports
U.S. SENATE29 reports
Commerce - Dept of (DOC)9 reports
White House Office6 reports
Education - Dept of4 reports
Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP)4 reports
Defense - Dept of (DOD)3 reports
Agriculture - Dept of (USDA)2 reports
Energy - Dept of2 reports
Interior - Dept of (DOI)2 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

Lewis-Burke Associates, LLC$1.2M
14 reports
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP$70K
1 reports
TUSK STRATEGIES, LLC$45K
5 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 2026.

Congress: members and bills

Through the organizations matched to this company: members of Congress whose campaigns received contributions from their PACs, and the bills their lobbying reports named. Shown beside the company's contracts as a comparison, not a cause.

Bills named in its lobbying reports

H.R. 6655 · A Stronger Workforce for America Act10 reports
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2023–2024
H.R. 6213 · National Quantum Initiative Reauthorization Act9 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2023–2024
H.R. 1 · An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.8 reports
119th Congress · Became law · 2025–2026
H.R. 8774 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20257 reports
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2024–2025
H.R. 9026 · Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20257 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2024–2025
H.R. 8997 · Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20256 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2024
H.R. 9027 · Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20256 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2024
H.R. 9029 · Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20256 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2024
H.R. 6951 · College Cost Reduction Act5 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2024–2025
H.R. 8070 · Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20255 reports
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2024

22 of 34 reports (2023–2026) name at least one bill. Bills and resolutions the current reports name in their issue descriptions, by number of reports. A report names what it lobbied on, not which side it took.

Amounts, members and bills are as recorded, shown side by side. They say nothing about why a contribution was made, how a member voted or what a report sought. A bill number written in a report is read as the measure of the Congress its context points to (a law's number, the Congress written next to it, the title), else of the Congress then sitting.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.

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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.