Federal recipient
The Pennsylvania State University
$652.6 Million committed in FY2025
- District
- PA-15
- Location
- 201 Old Main, University Park, PA, 16802
- UEI
- NPM2J7MSCF61
- DUNS
- 003403953
- Also known as
- Ohio State University, Pa ST U University Park, Penn State, Penn State University, Pennsylvania State University, the, Pennsylvania State Univ, Pennsylvania State Univ Up, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Pennsylvania State University the, Pennsylvania State University - University Pa, Pennsylvania State University - University Park, Pennsylvania State University -Univ Park, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Pennsylvania State University System, Pennsylvania State University System (0376), Pennsylvania State University the, Pennsylvania State University the Penn State, Pennsylvania State University the (0376), Pennsylvania State University,, Pennsylvania State University, Main Campus, Pennsylvania State University, the, Pennsylvania State University, the Penn State, Pennsylvania State University-Univ Park, Pennsylvania State University-University Park, Pennsylvania State Unviersity, Pennsylvania Uiv, Pennyslvania State University, Pensylvania State University, T Pennsylvania State University, The Pennsylvania State University, The Pennsylvania ST Univ, The Pennsylvania State Univers, The Pennsylvania State University Penn State, The Pennsylvania State University - Lti, The Pennsylvania State University - York, University of Illinois
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how federal money reaches The Pennsylvania State University.
Direct payments
$3.0M
<1%
Grants
$303.6M
47%
Top agencies
The agencies that pay The Pennsylvania State University, by dollars committed.
Top programs
The assistance programs behind The Pennsylvania State University's money, by dollars committed.
What they sell
Top products and services The Pennsylvania State University sells the government under contract, by dollars committed.
R&D- Defense Other: Services (Engineering Development)
$1.1B
National Defense R&D Services; Defense-Related Activities; Applied Research
$919.2M
National Defense R&D Services; Department of Defense - Military; Experimental Development
Awards
The largest individual awards to The Pennsylvania State University.
Where the money went next
The sub-recipients The Pennsylvania State University passed prime-award money on to. Sub-awards are prime-reported and may lag or under-report.
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation
$72.9M
4 sub-awards
Omitron, Inc.
$65.9M
3 sub-awards
Regents of the University of Michigan
$31.3M
Competition
How many of The Pennsylvania State 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
948
66%
Multiple offers
479
34%
What budget it comes from
The Treasury accounts The Pennsylvania State 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
$696.2M
1,359 awards
Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Defense-Wide
097-0400
$601.6M
132 awards
Committed by fiscal year
Dollars committed to The Pennsylvania State 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
