Federal contractor · LAWRENCE, KS

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS received $298.2K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 4 awards (+81% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $3.6M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($298.2K). It also received $31.4M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$298.2K
New awards
4
Sole-source
90%
Single offer
9.7%
UEI
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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 KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH INC company family: 4 registered entities, $2.9M in FY2026 together. See the family

  1. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH INCLAWRENCE, KS · Family page
    $2.6M
  2. KANSAS, UNIVERSITY OFKANSAS CITY, KS
    $0
  3. UNIVERSITY OF KANSASLAWRENCE, KS
    $0

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-09-30

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 724.5KFY2017
  2. 414.6KFY2018
  3. 505.4KFY2019
  4. 231.8KFY2020
  5. 135.6KFY2021
  6. 255.3KFY2022
  7. 409.5KFY2023
  8. 488.5KFY2024
  9. 164.6KFY2025
  10. 298.2KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Navy$298.2K100%
    4 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Education & social services$298.2K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Douglas County, KS$269.2K90%
  2. St. Mary's County, MD$29K9.7%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $298.2K
  • Sole-source awards90%
    US 30% · $269.2K
  • Single-offer competitions9.7%
    US 8.7% · $29K
  • 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

  1. Department of the Navy$269.2K
    Department of Defense · 2 awards

Largest awards

  1. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SPRING 2026 TUITION AND MANDATORY FEES FOR NROTC MIDSHIPMEN$135.6K
    Department of the Navy· Douglas County, KS· Education & social services· Mar 4, 2026 – Mar 4, 2026· N3560A26FB152
  2. ALL 2025 NROTC MIDSHIPMEN TUITION AND ALLOWABLE FEES$117.8K
    Department of the Navy· Douglas County, KS· Education & social services· Sep 29, 2025 – Dec 5, 2025· N3560A25FB260
  3. ON-SITE TRAINING; AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES STRESS ANALYSIS$29K
    Department of the Navy· St. Mary's County, MD· Education & social services· Jun 4, 2026 – Jun 4, 2026· N0042126P1159
  4. FALL 2025 RETROACTIVE NROTC MIDSHIPMEN TUITION AND ALLOWABLE FEES FOR 1 MIDSHIPMAN$15.8K
    Department of the Navy· Douglas County, KS· Education & social services· Dec 11, 2025 – Dec 11, 2025· N3560A26FB033

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 KANSAS received $31.4M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 290 actions (5 new awards), −2.9% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program ($28.8M).

Assistance · FY2026
$31.4M
New awards
5
Actions
290
Since FY2021
$199.3M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 64.3MFY2021
  2. 14.1MFY2022
  3. 25.3MFY2023
  4. 31.8MFY2024
  5. 32.3MFY2025
  6. 31.4MFY2026

By type

  1. Direct payments$31M99%
  2. Grants$383K1.2%

Top programs

  1. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program$28.8M92%
  2. 84.033 · Federal Work-Study Program$1.6M5.1%
  3. 84.007 · Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants$586.1K1.9%
  4. 84.299 · Indian Education -- Special Programs for Indian Children$383K1.2%
  5. 84.379 · Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education Grants (Teach GRANTS)$18.4K0.1%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Education$31.4M100%

Largest awards

  1. GRANT PROGRAM$30.5M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· May 15, 2024 – Oct 27, 2025· P063P240146
  2. GRANT PROGRAM$28.8M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· May 27, 2025 – Sep 18, 2026· P063P250146
  3. GRANT PROGRAM$11.6M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Jun 25, 2026 – Sep 18, 2026· P063P260146
  4. CAMPUS BASED-FWS$1.6M
    84.033 · Federal Work-Study Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Apr 1, 2026 – Apr 1, 2026· P033A261556
  5. THE SOUTHERN PLAINS INDIGENOUS TEACHING PATHWAY PROJECT$746.5K
    84.299 · Indian Education -- Special Programs for Indian Children· Department of Education· Project grant· Sep 22, 2025 – Jul 31, 2026· S299B250057
  6. CAMPUS BASED-FSEOG$586.1K
    84.007 · Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Apr 1, 2026 – Apr 1, 2026· P007A261556

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

  • Sub-grants: $735.6K (5 subawards)

4 primes

  1. KANSAS DEPARTMENT FOR AGING AND DISABILITY SERVICES$261.5K36%
    TOPEKA, KS · 2 subawards
  2. KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT$260K35%
    TOPEKA, KS · 1 subaward
  3. IOWA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH$176.4K24%
    DES MOINES, IA · 1 subaward
  4. CINCINNATI UNIV OF$37.7K5.1%
    CINCINNATI, OH · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $1.2M paid out · $880.3K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $142.5K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $1.6M received
  • FY2024: $610K paid out · $718.9K received
  • FY2025: $590K paid out · $1.1M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $735.6K 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

183 companies · $112.3M reported

  1. KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY$9.8M
    MANHATTAN, KS · 41 subawards
  2. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL$5.6M
    CHAPEL HILL, NC · 23 subawards
  3. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.$3.9M
    KANSAS CITY, KS · 27 subawards

Primes that pay it

140 companies · $134.7M reported

  1. KANSAS STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION$19.8M
    TOPEKA, KS · 14 subawards
  2. KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT$13.6M
    TOPEKA, KS · 113 subawards
  3. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.$8.8M
    KANSAS CITY, KS · 125 subawards

Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.

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.

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

  1. AKITA INNOVATIONS LLC$5.9M+0.1% in FY2026
    NORTH BILLERICA, MA · 73% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development servicesNavy · Scientific research and development services
  2. BLUERISC INC$6.5M−73% in FY2026
    AMHERST, MA · 73% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development servicesNavy · Scientific research and development services
  3. BANC 3, INC.$5M−100% in FY2026
    PRINCETON, NJ · 64% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Scientific research and development servicesNavy · Scientific research and development services

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 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 KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH INC (4 recipients).

Matched organizations

  • University of KansasAI match · 100%
  • University of Kansas Hospital AuthorityAI match · 95%
Lobbying · 2025
$240K
12 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$900K
$900K in its own reports

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$240K
    10 reports
  2. 2024$240K
    8 reports
  3. 2025$240K
    12 reports
  4. 2026$180K
    7 reports

Top issues

  1. Budget and appropriations35 reports
  2. Health issues20 reports
  3. Sports and athletics15 reports
  4. Education10 reports
  5. Energy and nuclear9 reports
  6. Medicare and Medicaid6 reports
  7. Science and technology5 reports
  8. Defense2 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES35 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE35 reports
  3. Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)6 reports

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

Lobbying firms hired

  1. Polsinelli PC$420K
    14 reports
  2. Strategic Health Care$225K
    6 reports
  3. Lewis-Burke Associates, LLC$0
    2 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 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Oct 5, 2026.

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.