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Federal grants to Cornell College

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Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa received $4.2 million in federal grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, across 7 awards. Its largest program was Education Stabilization Fund, with $3.7 million. In fiscal 2025 it was awarded $216,994.

From USAspending.gov award records, updated November 7, 2026.

By year

Federal grants to Cornell College by fiscal year
Fiscal yearAwardsAmount
FY 20214$3.9 million
FY 20222$164,097
FY 20230$0
FY 20240-$669
FY 20251$216,994

An award funded in several years counts in each of them, so yearly awards add up to more than the five-year total.

Programs that fund Cornell College

Every program, fiscal 2021 to 2025
ProgramAwardsAmount
Education Stabilization Fund 84.4252$3.7 million
Geosciences 47.0502$358,924
Biological Sciences 47.0741$199,785
Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access 45.1492$18,509

Awarding agencies

AgencyAwardsAmount
Department of Education2$3.7 million
National Science Foundation3$558,709
National Endowment for the Humanities2$18,509

Largest awards

The 7 largest awards by money obligated in fiscal 2021 to 2025
AwardProgramFirst actionAmount
Cornell college higher education emergency relief fund-institutional award
ASST_NON_P425F200768_091 on USAspending
Education Stabilization FundMarch 23, 2021$2.1 million
Cornell college CARES act emergency student fund request
ASST_NON_P425E200057_091 on USAspending
Education Stabilization FundJanuary 19, 2021$1.6 million
Collaborative research: the drivers of regionally coherent meridional variability across the australian and asian monsoons over the common era -the eastern hemisphere tropics and subtropics are highly sensitive to variations in regional monsoon precipitation, which provides the majority of freshwate
ASST_NON_2503124_049 on USAspending
GeosciencesJuly 29, 2025$216,994
Rui: sg: field and laboratory tests of pyrogenic organic compounds in australian stalagmites as a novel, high-resolution paleofire proxy -the massive fires that burned across many parts of australia in 2019-2020 are part of a global trend. Rising temperatures, coupled in some cases with prolonged dr
ASST_NON_2147186_049 on USAspending
Biological SciencesApril 20, 2022$199,785
Collaborative research: P2C2--EVALUATING the origins of multidecadal variability in late holocene indian summer monsoon rainfall in nepal
ASST_NON_2102864_049 on USAspending
GeosciencesMarch 25, 2021$141,930
Cornell college archives post-derecho preservation equipment and supplies [in 2021, the cornell archives was awarded an neh preservation assistance grant for a preservation assessment of the physical collection and a survey of digital needs. The impetus for that grant application was the derecho of
ASST_NON_PG28787422_418 on USAspending
Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and AccessAugust 30, 2022$9,878
Cornell college archives post-derecho preservation assessment
ASST_NON_PG28094721_418 on USAspending
Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and AccessAugust 26, 2021$8,631

Amounts are net obligations: money committed, minus any amounts taken back. They are not payments. See how our data works.

Questions people ask

How much federal grant money does Cornell College get?

$4.2 million in 7 grant awards from fiscal 2021 to 2025, as obligations reported to USAspending.gov.

Which agency gives Cornell College the most?

The Department of Education, with $3.7 million in 2 awards. The National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities follow.

What is Cornell College's largest federal grant?

$2.1 million under Education Stabilization Fund, with its first action in the period on March 23, 2021. That counts only the money obligated in fiscal 2021 to 2025.

Which federal programs fund Cornell College?

Its largest are Education Stabilization Fund, Geosciences and Biological Sciences.

Other grant recipients in Mount Vernon

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