Federal recipient
Lowell Observatory
$1.8 Million committed in FY2025
- District
- AZ-02
- Location
- 1400 W Mars Hill RD, Flagstaff, AZ, 86001
- UEI
- L1A3LW734P89
- DUNS
- 102805942
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how federal money reaches Lowell Observatory.
Grants
$1.8M
100%
Top agencies
The agencies that pay Lowell Observatory, by dollars committed.
Top programs
The assistance programs behind Lowell Observatory's money, by dollars committed.
What they sell
Top products and services Lowell Observatory sells the government under contract, by dollars committed.
Space Vehicle Components
$53,862
Awards
The largest individual awards to Lowell Observatory.
Where the money went next
The sub-recipients Lowell Observatory passed prime-award money on to. Sub-awards are prime-reported and may lag or under-report.
Northern Arizona University
$669,944
2 sub-awards
Planetary Science Institute
$171,196
2 sub-awards
University of Maryland, College Park
$149,874
Competition
How many of Lowell Observatory's priced contract actions drew exactly one offer — a competition on paper with a single bidder. A high share doesn't prove anything improper; it's a flag worth a second look.
Multiple offers
1
100%
What budget it comes from
The Treasury accounts Lowell Observatory's awards draw on. Dollars committed on awards that span more than one account are split evenly across them.
Science, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
080-0120
$13.8M
36 awards
Research and Related Activities, National Science Foundation
049-0100
$5.2M
15 awards
Committed by fiscal year
Dollars committed to Lowell Observatory, per fiscal year (FY2018–FY2026).
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How to read these numbers
- Committed to this recipient
The dollars agencies committed to them — signed contracts and awarded grants — counted in the year each action happened.
- Lifetime vs. a single year
The profile sections cover the recipient's full history on record; the headline total and the flow bar reflect the fiscal year picked at the top.
- “Active in FY X”
A fiscal-year award list shows every award with at least one action that year, at its full lifetime value — a different lens from the by-year chart, which splits each award across the years it was committed.
- Names come raw
Recipient names appear exactly as filed, and the government doesn't standardize them, so one organization can show up under a few spelling variants — worth checking near-duplicates before sizing one up.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments
