Federal contractor · LEXINGTON, KY
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY received $19.3M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 19 awards (+323% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $29.9M. Its largest customer was Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons ($19.2M). It also received $62.5M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.
- Obligations · FY2026
- $19.3M
- New awards
- 19
- Sole-source
- 100%
- Single offer
- 0.0%
- UEI
- QUKNKLZ4N889
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 KENTUCKY company family: 4 registered entities, $34.7M in FY2026 together. See the family
- UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKYLEXINGTON, KY · Family page$11.8M
- UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, THELEXINGTON, KY$3.6M
- UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKYLEXINGTON, KY$0
AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-10-05
Spending by fiscal year
Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).
- 211.9KFY2017
- 224.1KFY2018
- 328.6KFY2019
- 254.4KFY2020
- 426.2KFY2021
- 387.1KFY2022
- 3.6MFY2023
- 516KFY2024
- 4.6MFY2025
- 19.3MFY2026
Top buying agencies
Obligations in FY2026.
- 11 awards
- Department of the Navy$148.2K0.8%6 awards
- Food and Drug Administration-$1200.0%1 awards
- National Institutes of Health-$8,4000.0%1 awards
What was bought · Where the work was performed
Obligations in FY2026.
What was bought
- Health & medical$19.2M99%
- Education & social services$148.2K0.8%
Where the work was performed
- Fayette County, KY$19.3M100%
Integrity signals
Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.
- Low competition100%US 39% · $19.3M
- Sole-source awards100%US 30% · $19.3M
- Single-offer competitions0.0%US 8.7% · -$120
- Urgency justifications0.0%US 5.1% · -$1,902
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 Justice · 9 awards
- Department of the Navy$148.2KDepartment of Defense · 3 awards
Largest awards
- Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· Fayette County, KY· Health & medical· Apr 22, 2026 – Jun 17, 2026· 15B10926P00000069
- Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· Fayette County, KY· Health & medical· Mar 12, 2026 – Mar 12, 2026· 15B10926P00000052
- Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· Fayette County, KY· Health & medical· Apr 6, 2026 – Apr 6, 2026· 15B10926P00000068
- Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· Fayette County, KY· Health & medical· Mar 11, 2026 – Mar 11, 2026· 15B10926P00000050
- Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· Fayette County, KY· Health & medical· Dec 10, 2025 – Dec 10, 2025· 15B10926P00000012
- Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· Fayette County, KY· Health & medical· Mar 17, 2026 – Mar 17, 2026· 15B10926P00000053
- Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· Fayette County, KY· Health & medical· Mar 11, 2026 – Mar 11, 2026· 15B10926P00000042
- Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons· Fayette County, KY· Health & medical· Mar 11, 2026 – Jul 22, 2026· 15B10926P00000049
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 KENTUCKY received $62.5M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 338 actions (13 new awards), −2.9% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program ($37.5M).
- Assistance · FY2026
- $62.5M
- New awards
- 13
- Actions
- 338
- Since FY2021
- $367.5M
Assistance by fiscal year
- 92.9MFY2021
- 35.5MFY2022
- 54.4MFY2023
- 57.8MFY2024
- 64.4MFY2025
- 62.5MFY2026
By type
- Direct payments$40.7M65%
- Grants$21.7M35%
Top programs
- 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program$37.5M60%
- 10.511 · Smith-Lever Extension Funding$9.9M16%
- 10.203 · Payments to Agricultural Experiment Stations Under the Hatch Act$6.6M11%
- 93.224 · Health Center Program$2.7M4.3%
- 84.033 · Federal Work-Study Program$2.5M4.0%
- 10.514 · Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program$1.7M2.7%
- 84.007 · Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants$757.1K1.2%
- 10.202 · Cooperative Forestry Research$663.8K1.1%
Awarding agencies
- Department of Education$40.7M65%
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Health and Human Services
Largest awards
- GRANT PROGRAM$38.7M84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· May 15, 2024 – Jul 6, 2026· P063P240150
- GRANT PROGRAM$37.7M84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Jul 29, 2025 – Sep 16, 2026· P063P250150
- HEALTH CENTER PROGRAM$12.5M93.224 · Health Center Program· Health Resources and Services Administration· Project grant· Jun 24, 2022 – May 29, 2026· H8045850
- 10.511 · Smith-Lever Extension Funding· National Institute of Food and Agriculture· Formula grant· Nov 23, 2022 – Feb 10, 2026· NI23SLBCXXXXG012
- 10.511 · Smith-Lever Extension Funding· National Institute of Food and Agriculture· Formula grant· Feb 21, 2024 – Feb 10, 2026· NI24SLBCXXXXG055
- 10.511 · Smith-Lever Extension Funding· National Institute of Food and Agriculture· Formula grant· Dec 5, 2024 – Feb 10, 2026· NI25SLBCXXXXG016
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.
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: $264.5K (1 subaward)
1 prime
- UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA$264.5K100%GAINESVILLE, FL · 1 subaward
By fiscal year
- FY2021: $0 paid out · $84.3K received
- FY2022: $0 paid out · $89.9K received
- FY2023: $0 paid out · $1.7M received
- FY2024: $0 paid out · $919.4K received
- FY2025: $0 paid out · $382.9K received
- FY2026: $0 paid out · $264.5K 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
321 companies · $142M reported
- UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE$11.7MLOUISVILLE, KY · 80 subawards
- NASHVILLE, TN · 38 subawards
- PORTLAND, OR · 14 subawards
Primes that pay it
173 companies · $349.1M reported
- FRANKFORT, KY · 162 subawards
- MILITARY AFFAIRS KENTUCKY DEPARTMEN$13.2MFRANKFORT, KY · 16 subawards
- LOUISVILLE, KY · 27 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 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 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 19 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.
- THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH$92.8M+4.2% in FY2026FORT WORTH, TX · 2 entities · 84% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons · General medical and surgical hospitalsNational Institutes of Health · Scientific research and development services
- MAYO CLINIC$98.5M+17% in FY2026ROCHESTER, MN · 7 entities · 77% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons · General medical and surgical hospitals
- INTEGRATED MEDICAL SOLUTIONS, LLC$110.7M+56% in FY2026MANSFIELD, TX · 81% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveFederal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons · General medical and surgical hospitals
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 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 KENTUCKY (4 recipients).
Matched organizations
- University of KentuckyAI match · 100%
- Lobbying · 2025
- $567.6K
- 8 reports
- Lobbying · 2023–2026
- $1.9M
- $1.9M in its own reports
Lobbying by year
- 2023$564.6K8 reports
- 2024$668.5K8 reports
- 2025$567.6K8 reports
- 2026$140K4 reports
Top issues
- Education26 reports
- Agriculture14 reports
- Budget and appropriations14 reports
- Defense14 reports
- Medical and disease research, clinical labs14 reports
- Medicare and Medicaid14 reports
- Science and technology14 reports
- Alcohol and drug abuse8 reports
Who was contacted
- U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES28 reports
- U.S. SENATE18 reports
- Defense - Dept of (DOD)17 reports
- Agriculture - Dept of (USDA)11 reports
- Natl Institutes of Health (NIH)11 reports
Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).
Lobbying firms hired
- Cornerstone Government Affairs, Inc.$700K14 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.
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.