Recipient of federal assistance · SALEM, OR

WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY

WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY received $4.8M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026, on 148 actions, −13% vs FY2025. It has no federal contracts in the loaded years. Since FY2021: $28.2M. Its largest awarding agency was Department of Education ($4.8M).

Assistance · FY2026
$4.8M
New awards
6
Actions
148
Since FY2021
$28.2M
UEI
LBDSJ1GSKJY1
Location
SALEM, OR
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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. 6.1MFY2021
  2. 3.1MFY2022
  3. 3.6MFY2023
  4. 5.1MFY2024
  5. 5.5MFY2025
  6. 4.8MFY2026

By type

  1. Direct payments$4.8M99.7%
  2. Grants$15.9K0.3%

Top programs · Awarding agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Top programs

  1. 84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program$3.8M79%
  2. 84.033 · Federal Work-Study Program$650K14%
  3. 84.007 · Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants$351.2K7.3%
  4. 45.024 · Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals$20K0.4%
  5. 45.162 · Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development-$4,0520.0%

Awarding agencies

  1. Department of Education$4.8M99.7%
  2. National Endowment for the Arts$20K0.4%

Largest awards

  1. GRANT PROGRAM$3.9M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 15, 2025 – Mar 24, 2026· P063P252074
  2. GRANT PROGRAM$1.7M
    84.063 · Federal Pell Grant Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 17, 2026 – Sep 14, 2026· P063P262074
  3. CAMPUS BASED-FWS$650K
    84.033 · Federal Work-Study Program· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Apr 1, 2026 – Apr 1, 2026· P033A263526
  4. SUSTAINING AND EXPANDING HUMANITIES EDUCATION AT THE NORTHWEST'S PREMIER LIBERAL ARTS INSTITUTION POST-PANDEMIC [AN NEH AMERICAN RESCUE…$445.9K
    45.162 · Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development· National Endowment for the Humanities· Project grant· Dec 15, 2021 – Dec 18, 2025· ZED28398122
  5. CAMPUS BASED-FSEOG$351.2K
    84.007 · Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants· Department of Education· Direct payment for specified use· Apr 1, 2026 – Apr 1, 2026· P007A263526
  6. IIJA IRA BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT CALIFORNIA PLANT CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION MANAGEMENT - 2024$218.3K
    15.245 · Plant Conservation and Restoration Management· Bureau of Land Management· Cooperative agreement· Sep 6, 2024 – Mar 10, 2026· L24AC00551

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

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $290.8K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $298K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $70.8K 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 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 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.