Federal contractor · BELLINGHAM, WA

WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY received $13.4K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1 awards (−49% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $291.7K. Its largest customer was Departmental Offices ($13.4K). It also received $16.6M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$13.4K
New awards
1
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
U3ZFA57417D4
Other than small businessEducational institutionGovernment entity
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 12.1KFY2017
  2. 12.6KFY2018
  3. 12.8KFY2019
  4. 20.3KFY2020
  5. 24.2KFY2021
  6. 24.9KFY2022
  7. 23.5KFY2023
  8. 121.4KFY2024
  9. 26.3KFY2025
  10. 13.4KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Departmental Offices$13.4K100%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$13.4K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Whatcom County, WA$13.4K100%

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. RECRUITING SERVICES - WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$149.6K
    Departmental Offices· Whatcom County, WA· Professional services· Jul 22, 2021 – Jul 21, 2026· 140D0421P0109

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 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY received $16.6M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 254 actions (14 new awards), −42% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program ($13.5M).

Assistance · FY2026
$16.6M
New awards
14
Actions
254
Since FY2021
$177.7M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 61.6MFY2021
  2. 15.4MFY2022
  3. 27.9MFY2023
  4. 27.5MFY2024
  5. 28.7MFY2025
  6. 16.6MFY2026

By type

  1. Direct payments$14.6M88%
  2. Grants$2M12%
  3. Other assistance$55K0.3%

Top programs

  1. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program$13.5M82%
  2. 93.859 · Biomedical Research and Research Training$1.1M6.4%
  3. 11.617 · Congressionally-Identified Projects$1M6.2%
  4. 84.007 · Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants$537.2K3.2%
  5. 84.033 · Federal Work-Study Program$487.4K2.9%
  6. 93.837 · Cardiovascular Diseases Research$460.7K2.8%
  7. 84.365 · English Language Acquisition State Grants$372.4K2.2%
  8. 47.050 · Geosciences$211.2K1.3%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Education$15.1M91%
  2. National Institutes of Health$1.5M9.1%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  3. National Institute of Standards and Technology$1M6.2%
    Department of Commerce
  4. National Endowment for the Humanities$209.6K1.3%
  5. Forest Service$55K0.3%
    Department of Agriculture
  6. Department of the Navy$50K0.3%
    Department of Defense

Largest awards

  1. GRANT PROGRAM$21.6M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Sep 24, 2024 – Jan 1, 2026· P063P240418
  2. GRANT PROGRAM$19.6M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Sep 22, 2025 – Sep 18, 2026· P063P250418
  3. WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY/WASHINGTON CAMPUS COMPACT, SERVING AS AN INTERMEDIARY AND IN PARTNERSHIP WITH 42 OPERATING SITES IN…$5.1M
    94.006 · Americorps State and National 94.006· Corporation for National and Community Service· Project grant· Jun 24, 2021 – Jan 21, 2026· 21EDIWA001
  4. PROVIDING EQUITABLE ACCESS TO CONTINUING EDUCATION (PEACE) PROJECT: TEACHER PREPARATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR P-12 TEACHERS OF…$2.1M
    84.365 · English Language Acquisition State Grants· Department of Education· Project grant· Sep 26, 2022 – Aug 28, 2026· T365Z220152
  5. CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE ELEMENTARY SCIENCE TEACHING -CURRICULUM MATERIALS ARE NOT A SCRIPT FOR TEACHERS TO FOLLOW, BUT A TOOL OVER WHICH THEY…$1.8M
    47.076 · Stem Education (Formerly Education and Human Resources)· National Science Foundation· Project grant· Jul 25, 2023 – Dec 23, 2025· 2300558
  6. LONG-TERM TRAINING GRANT: REHABILITATION COUNSELING$1.2M
    84.129 · Rehabilitation Long-Term Training· Department of Education· Project grant· Sep 20, 2021 – Dec 30, 2025· H129B190019

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: $514.1K (4 subawards)

4 sub-recipients

  1. MILLION CONCEPTS LLC$268K52%
    LOUISVILLE, KY · 1 subaward
  2. MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY$127.2K25%
    BOZEMAN, MT · 1 subaward
  3. TEACH ACCESS INC$79.3K15%
    WINSTON SALEM, NC · 1 subaward
  4. PURDUE UNIVERSITY$39.5K7.7%
    WEST LAFAYETTE, IN · 1 subaward

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $2.3M (13 subawards)

9 primes

  1. WASHINGTON STATE OFFICE OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT$817.2K36%
    OLYMPIA, WA · 1 subaward
  2. UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS$479.5K21%
    FAIRBANKS, AK · 1 subaward
  3. STATE OF WASHINGTON$384.2K17%
    LACEY, WA · 1 subaward
  4. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$195.9K8.7%
    SEATTLE, WA · 4 subawards
  5. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON$162.6K7.2%
    EUGENE, OR · 2 subawards
  6. PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE$84.9K3.8%
    SEATTLE, WA · 1 subaward
  7. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA$62.7K2.8%
    SANTA BARBARA, CA · 1 subaward
  8. WORLD LEARNING INC.$35K1.6%
    BRATTLEBORO, VT · 1 subaward
  9. UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.$33.8K1.5%
    ATHENS, GA · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $810.4K paid out · $5.4M received
  • FY2022: $399.3K paid out · $3.4M received
  • FY2023: $394.9K paid out · $1M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $2.6M received
  • FY2025: $91.9K paid out · $2.2M received
  • FY2026: $514.1K paid out · $2.3M 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

11 companies · $2.2M reported

  1. LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY BANDS OF ODAWA INDIANS$893.7K
    HARBOR SPRINGS, MI · 2 subawards
  2. MILLION CONCEPTS LLC$268K
    LOUISVILLE, KY · 1 subaward
  3. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$246.1K
    SEATTLE, WA · 4 subawards

Primes that pay it

20 companies · $16.9M reported

  1. WASHINGTON$5.5M
    OLYMPIA, WA · 2 subawards
  2. VETERANS AFFAIRS WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT$2.3M
    OLYMPIA, WA · 5 subawards
  3. UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS$1.7M
    FAIRBANKS, AK · 4 subawards

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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. THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO$84K
    TORONTO, CAN · 52% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
  2. JG RESEARCH & EVALUATION LLC$78.9K
    BOZEMAN, MT · 49% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
  3. JIRAK CONSULTING ASSOCIATES, LLC$99K−88% in FY2026
    PRESCOTT, AZ · 52% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · Management, scientific, and technical consulting 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.

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.