Federal Grants Recipients
Federal grants are financial awards given to organizations to carry out a public purpose. Grant-heavy recipients include universities, research institutions, nonprofits, and state/local governments that receive federal funding for healthcare, education, research, and social programs.
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Federal Grants FAQ
Federal grants are financial awards given to organizations to carry out a public purpose. Grant-heavy recipients include universities, research institutions, nonprofits, and state/local governments that receive federal funding for healthcare, education, research, and social programs.
0 organizations in our dataset receive more than half their federal funding through grants, accounting for $0 in total obligations.
Federal contracts are used when the government buys specific goods or services (e.g., building a weapons system or providing IT support). Grants are used to fund activities that serve a public purpose without the government receiving a direct product (e.g., medical research, education programs). Contracts are governed by the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), while grants follow different rules.
Organizations are classified as primarily grants-based when more than 50% of their total awards are grants. Spending figures represent total federal obligations.
The this entity category groups every U.S. federal government spending entity sharing this attribute. The list above is the data; the paragraphs below explain what the grouping means against the broader USASpending.gov federal awards data distribution and how to read the relative rankings within the category.
For readers using this category as a starting point, the per-entity detail pages linked from the table above carry the underlying USASpending.gov federal awards data data in full. The category-level view is the filter; the per-entity pages are the actual answer.
Source: USAspending.gov, 2026.