Federal contractor · SALT LAKE CITY, UT

WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY

WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY received $5.6M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 2 awards (−50% vs FY2025). Since FY2020: $22M. Its largest customer was Department of the Navy ($5.6M). It also received $504.2M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$5.6M
New awards
2
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
LLSKS9FXDR63
Other than small businessEducational institution
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 500FY2020
  2. 0FY2021
  3. 174KFY2022
  4. 695.5KFY2023
  5. 4.3MFY2024
  6. 11.2MFY2025
  7. 5.6MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Navy$5.6M100%
    2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Education & social services$5.6M100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Salt Lake County, UT$5.6M100%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition0.0%
    US 39% · $0
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • 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.

Largest awards

  1. BASE PERIOD FFP$20.7M
    Department of the Navy· Salt Lake County, UT· Education & social services· Jan 9, 2024 – May 6, 2026· N0018924FZ103
  2. BASE PERIOD - CYBER SECURITY PROGRAM$1.2M
    Department of the Navy· Salt Lake County, UT· Education & social services· Feb 11, 2022 – May 6, 2026· N0018922FZ377

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.

WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY received $504.2M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 729 actions (7 new awards), +4.4% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program ($489.5M).

Assistance · FY2026
$504.2M
New awards
7
Actions
729
Since FY2021
$1.8B

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 59.2MFY2021
  2. 100.9MFY2022
  3. 265.9MFY2023
  4. 374.9MFY2024
  5. 483MFY2025
  6. 504.2MFY2026

By type

  1. Direct payments$498.9M99%
  2. Grants$5.3M1.1%

Top programs

  1. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program$489.5M97%
  2. 84.007 · Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants$8.4M1.7%
  3. 84.336 · Teacher Quality Partnership Grants$5.3M1.1%
  4. 84.379 · Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education Grants (Teach GRANTS)$890.8K0.2%
  5. 84.033 · Federal Work-Study Program$120K0.0%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Education$498.9M99%
  2. Employment and Training Administration$5.3M1.1%
    Department of Labor

Largest awards

  1. GRANT PROGRAM$476.1M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Jun 24, 2025 – Sep 18, 2026· P063P251009
  2. GRANT PROGRAM$457.2M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· May 15, 2024 – Aug 26, 2026· P063P241009
  3. GRANT PROGRAM$348.4M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Jul 5, 2023 – Jul 30, 2026· P063P231009
  4. GRANT PROGRAM$70.9M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Jun 22, 2026 – Sep 18, 2026· P063P261009
  5. CAMPUS BASED-FSEOG$8.4M
    84.007 · Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Apr 1, 2026 – Apr 1, 2026· P007A269215
  6. THE PURPOSE OF THE TQP PROGRAM IS TO IMPROVE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF PROSPECTIVE AND NEW TEACHERS BY IMPROVING TEACHER…$5.3M
    84.336 · Teacher Quality Partnership Grants· Employment and Training Administration· Grant· Sep 16, 2026 – Sep 16, 2026· 26S60TQ000002

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

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $427.7K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $1M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $600K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $396.2K 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

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

5 companies · $2.4M reported

  1. NORTH DAKOTA OFFICE OF STATE TAX COMMISSIONER$1M
    BISMARCK, ND · 1 subaward
  2. NORTH DAKOTA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION$600K
    BISMARCK, ND · 2 subawards
  3. WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY$396.2K
    HOUSTON, TX · 1 subaward

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 1 market (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. JACKSONVILLE UNIVERSITY$15.8M−12% in FY2026
    JACKSONVILLE, FL · 75% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Colleges, universities, and professional schools
  2. UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO$15.4M−2.2% in FY2026
    SAN DIEGO, CA · 72% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · Colleges, universities, and professional schools
  3. UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC$26M−20% in FY2026
    NOTRE DAME, IN · 2 entities · 85% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNavy · 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 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.

Matched organizations

  • Western Governors UniversityAI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$200K
4 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$700K

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$200K
    4 reports
  2. 2024$200K
    4 reports
  3. 2025$200K
    4 reports
  4. 2026$100K
    2 reports

Top issues

  1. Budget and appropriations14 reports
  2. Education14 reports
  3. Labor issues, antitrust and workplace14 reports
  4. Veterans14 reports

Who was contacted

  1. Education - Dept of14 reports
  2. Executive Office of the President (EOP)14 reports
  3. Labor - Dept of (DOL)14 reports
  4. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES14 reports
  5. U.S. SENATE14 reports
  6. Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA)14 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. Dutko Worldwide, LLC$500K
    10 reports
  2. DUTKO GOVERNMENT RELATIONS$200K
    4 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.