Federal contractor · SAN DIEGO, CA

UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO

UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO received $5.9M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 9 awards (−2.2% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $43.9M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($5.8M). It also received $15.1M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$5.9M
New awards
9
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
V6S1GT51XD56
Other than small businessNonprofitEducational institution

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 527.1KFY2017
  2. 558.7KFY2018
  3. 5.4MFY2019
  4. 5.9MFY2020
  5. 5.9MFY2021
  6. 5.4MFY2022
  7. 4.8MFY2023
  8. 3.5MFY2024
  9. 6MFY2025
  10. 5.9MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. 8 awards
  2. 1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Education & social services$5.9M100%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $5.9M
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $5.9M
  • 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

  1. Department of Defense · 7 awards
  2. Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. Department of the Navy· San Diego County, CA· Education & social services· Mar 23, 2026 – Mar 23, 2026· N3560A26FB002
  2. Department of the Navy· San Diego County, CA· Education & social services· May 22, 2026 – May 22, 2026· N3560A26FB212
  3. Department of the Navy· San Diego County, CA· Education & social services· Mar 4, 2026 – May 13, 2026· N0622A26FA179
  4. Department of the Navy· San Diego County, CA· Education & social services· Aug 29, 2025 – Jan 30, 2026· N0622A25FA534
  5. Department of the Navy· San Diego County, CA· Education & social services· Apr 17, 2026 – Apr 17, 2026· N0622A26FA325
  6. Department of the Navy· San Diego County, CA· Education & social services· Feb 20, 2026 – Feb 20, 2026· N0024426FS036
  7. Department of the Army· San Diego County, CA· Education & social services· May 29, 2026 – May 29, 2026· W9124D26PA148
  8. Department of the Navy· San Diego County, CA· Education & social services· Jun 4, 2026 – Jun 4, 2026· N3560A26FB218

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 SAN DIEGO received $15.1M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 160 actions (13 new awards), −19% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program ($10.8M).

Assistance · FY2026
$15.1M
New awards
13
Actions
160
Since FY2021
$103.2M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 24MFY2021
  2. 10MFY2022
  3. 19.8MFY2023
  4. 15.8MFY2024
  5. 18.6MFY2025
  6. 15.1MFY2026

By type

  1. Direct payments$13.3M88%
  2. Grants$1.8M12%

Top programs

  1. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program$10.8M72%
  2. 84.033 · Federal Work-Study Program$1.9M13%
  3. 12.800 · Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program$958.1K6.4%
  4. 84.047 · Trio Upward Bound$608.5K4.0%
  5. 93.732 · Mental and Behavioral Health Education and Training Grants$599.5K4.0%
  6. 84.007 · Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants$494.7K3.3%
  7. 47.049 · Mathematical and Physical Sciences$422.3K2.8%
  8. 84.042 · Trio Student Support Services$272.4K1.8%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Defense
  2. Department of Health and Human Services
  3. Department of the Treasury

Largest awards

  1. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Sep 22, 2025 – Sep 16, 2026· P063P253336
  2. 84.425 · Education Stabilization Fund· Department of Education· Formula grant· Jan 18, 2021 – Apr 27, 2026· P425E200090
  3. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Sep 18, 2024 – Jan 7, 2026· P063P243336
  4. 12.800 · Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program· Department of the Air Force· Project grant· Dec 15, 2020 – Nov 19, 2025· FA95502110009
  5. 93.732 · Mental and Behavioral Health Education and Training Grants· Health Resources and Services Administration· Project grant· May 25, 2021 – Jun 2, 2026· M0131377
  6. 93.925 · Scholarships for Health Professions Students From Disadvantaged Backgrounds· Health Resources and Services Administration· Project grant· May 19, 2021 – Feb 10, 2026· T0839302

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

  • Sub-grants: $743.2K (11 subawards)

6 sub-recipients

  1. PITTSBURGH, PA · 3 subawards
  2. BALTIMORE, MD · 2 subawards
  3. ELON, NC · 2 subawards
  4. MALIBU, CA · 2 subawards

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $230.3K (2 subawards)

2 primes

  1. CHULA VISTA, CA · 1 subaward
  2. VILLANOVA, PA · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $1.1M paid out · $407.5K received
  • FY2022: $1.5M paid out · $2.2M received
  • FY2023: $1.3M paid out · $530.5K received
  • FY2024: $1.4M paid out · $1.5M received
  • FY2025: $1.6M paid out · $888.3K received
  • FY2026: $743.2K paid out · $230.3K 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.

Teaming partners

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

Companies it pays

15 companies · $7.7M reported

  1. PITTSBURGH, PA · 12 subawards
  2. MINNEAPOLIS, MN · 6 subawards
  3. WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$948.8K
    MIDDLETOWN, CT · 6 subawards

Primes that pay it

16 companies · $5.8M reported

  1. VERMONT LAW SCHOOL, INC.$1.8M
    SOUTH ROYALTON, VT · 1 subaward
  2. MATHER, CA · 6 subawards
  3. CHULA VISTA, CA · 3 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 2 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. JACKSONVILLE UNIVERSITY$15.8M−12% in FY2026
    JACKSONVILLE, FL · 99% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Colleges, universities, and professional schools
  2. THE CITADEL$12.3M+25% in FY2026
    CHARLESTON, SC · 80% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Colleges, universities, and professional schools
  3. VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE$11.7M−48% in FY2026
    LEXINGTON, VA · 74% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Colleges, universities, and professional schoolsArmy · Colleges, universities, and professional schools

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.

Matched organizations

  • University of San DiegoAI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$44K
4 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$160K

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$48K
    4 reports
  2. 2024$48K
    4 reports
  3. 2025$44K
    4 reports
  4. 2026$20K
    2 reports

Top issues

  1. Education14 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES14 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE14 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. Downs Government Affairs$160K
    14 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 Sep 30, 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.