Federal recipient
Northwestern University
$113.7 Million committed in FY2025
- District
- IL-09
- Location
- 633 Clark ST, Evanston, IL, 60208
- UEI
- EXZVPWZBLUE8
- DUNS
- 160079455
- Also known as
- Northwestern University Evanston, Northwestern University, Evanston, Small Business Administration
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how federal money reaches Northwestern University.
Grants
$112.0M
98%
Contracts
$1.3M
1%
Other
$443,847
<1%
Top agencies
The agencies that pay Northwestern University, by dollars committed.
Top programs
The assistance programs behind Northwestern University's money, by dollars committed.
What they sell
Top products and services Northwestern University sells the government under contract, by dollars committed.
Health R&D Services; Health Care Services; Applied Research
$11.7M
R&D- General Science/Technology: Social Sciences (Advanced Development)
$1.0M
Education/Training- General
Awards
The largest individual awards to Northwestern University.
Where the money went next
The sub-recipients Northwestern University passed prime-award money on to. Sub-awards are prime-reported and may lag or under-report.
University of Chicago
$39.2M
92 sub-awards
The Leland Stanford Junior University
$34.2M
44 sub-awards
University of Illinois
$23.1M
124 sub-awards
Competition
How many of Northwestern University'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.
Single offer
72
67%
Multiple offers
35
33%
What budget it comes from
The Treasury accounts Northwestern University's awards draw on. Dollars committed on awards that span more than one account are split evenly across them.
Research and Related Activities, National Science Foundation
049-0100
$420.6M
717 awards
Science, Energy Programs, Energy
089-0222
$200.7M
53 awards
Committed by fiscal year
Dollars committed to Northwestern University, 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
