Recipient of federal assistance · AUGUSTA, ME

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM received $9.5M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026, on 103 actions, −36% vs FY2025. It has no federal contracts in the loaded years. Since FY2021: $67.2M. Its largest awarding agency was Department of Education ($8.8M).

Assistance · FY2026
$9.5M
New awards
7
Actions
103
Since FY2021
$67.2M
UEI
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Location
AUGUSTA, ME
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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. 10.4MFY2021
  2. 5MFY2022
  3. 12.8MFY2023
  4. 14.5MFY2024
  5. 14.9MFY2025
  6. 9.5MFY2026

By type

  1. Direct payments$8.3M87%
  2. Grants$1.3M13%

Top programs · Awarding agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Top programs

  1. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program$7.8M82%
  2. 84.042 · Trio Student Support Services$566.1K6.0%
  3. 93.464 · Acl Assistive Technology$512.1K5.4%
  4. 84.033 · Federal Work-Study Program$294.8K3.1%
  5. 84.007 · Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants$201.4K2.1%
  6. 21.009 · Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Matching Grant Program$172K1.8%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Education$8.8M93%
  2. Administration for Community Living$512.1K5.4%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  3. Internal Revenue Service$172K1.8%
    Department of the Treasury

Largest awards

  1. GRANT PROGRAM$8.4M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· May 29, 2025 – Jul 29, 2026· P063P250494
  2. GRANT PROGRAM$8.4M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· May 15, 2024 – Jun 24, 2026· P063P240494
  3. TRIO SCHOLARS STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES$2.8M
    84.042 · Trio Student Support Services· Department of Education· Project grant· Aug 17, 2021 – Mar 18, 2026· P042A200647
  4. GRANT PROGRAM$1.1M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Jun 30, 2026 – Sep 16, 2026· P063P260494
  5. STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES, TRIO SCHOLARS$566.5K
    84.042 · Trio Student Support Services· Department of Education· Project grant· Jul 3, 2025 – Aug 31, 2026· P042A250177
  6. FY2026 (ATSG) AT ACT STATE GRANTS FOR ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY - AT ACT STATE GRANTS FOR ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY$512.1K
    93.464 · Acl Assistive Technology· Administration for Community Living· Formula grant· Dec 10, 2025 – Mar 27, 2026· 2602MEATSG

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: $21.3K (2 subawards)

1 prime

  1. HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, MAINE DEPARTMENT OF$21.3K100%
    AUGUSTA, ME · 2 subawards

By fiscal year

  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $120K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $67.6K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $21.3K 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.