Federal grants to Bowdoin College
Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine received $12.5 million in federal grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, across 33 awards. Its largest program was TRIO Upward Bound, with $4.2 million. In fiscal 2025 it was awarded $1.8 million.
From USAspending.gov award records, updated October 31, 2026.
- Grants, FY 2021 to 2025$12.5 million
- Awards33
- Awarded in FY 2025$1.8 million
- Largest award$1.8 million
By year
| Fiscal year | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY 2021 | 10 | $6.8 million |
| FY 2022 | 10 | $456,196 |
| FY 2023 | 14 | $3.3 million |
| FY 2024 | 5 | $237,399 |
| FY 2025 | 7 | $1.8 million |
Programs that fund Bowdoin College
| Program | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| TRIO Upward Bound | 4 | $4.2 million |
| Education Stabilization Fund | 2 | $2.6 million |
| Biological Sciences | 4 | $1.4 million |
| Mathematical and Physical Sciences | 7 | $1.4 million |
| STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) | 1 | $969,447 |
| Integrative Activities | 5 | $855,740 |
| Biomedical Research and Research Training | 1 | $400,669 |
| Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences | 2 | $288,999 |
| Science | 4 | $266,494 |
| Medical Library Assistance | 1 | $99,957 |
Awarding agencies
| Agency | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Education | 6 | $6.8 million |
| National Science Foundation | 21 | $5.0 million |
| Department of Health and Human Services | 2 | $459,604 |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 4 | $266,494 |
Largest awards
| Award | Program | First action | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Higher education relief for bowdoin college in brunswick, Maine | Education Stabilization Fund | January 19, 2021 | $1.8 million |
| Upward bound program | TRIO Upward Bound | May 31, 2023 | $1.6 million |
| Bowdoin college upward bound grant 2 - Washington county | TRIO Upward Bound | May 31, 2023 | $1.2 million |
| Continuation of bowdoin college's regular upward bound project | TRIO Upward Bound | May 25, 2021 | $1.1 million |
| Collaborative research: bridging preschool and kindergarten science: exploring play-based engagement with scientific and engineering practices in early learning environments -this project will investigate how and to what extent preschoolers and kindergarteners can engage in science and engineering p | STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) | July 8, 2022 | $969,447 |
| Allocation of institutional CARES act funds to support bowdoin college | Education Stabilization Fund | November 17, 2020 | $826,285 |
| Career: adapting to life with a dash of salt: eco-evolutionary consequences of freshwater salinization -lakes provide important services to communities across the united states, including recreation, drinking water, and habitat for fish and wildlife. Yet many lakes are becoming saltier, mainly due t | Biological Sciences | July 29, 2025 | $649,543 |
| Rui: evaluation of neurotrophic-like properties of spaetzle-toll signaling in the developing and adult cricket cns -one of the most fundamental questions in neuroscience is how neuronal flexibility occurs and why the capacity for neuronal change generally diminishes over the course of an organism?s | Biological Sciences | July 11, 2023 | $474,210 |
| Rui: sugar probes to track utilization, uptake, and processing of monosaccharides by bacteria -with the support of the chemistry of life processes (CLP) program in the division of chemistry, professor danielle dube from bowdoin college is developing sugar probes to facilitate the study of bacterial | Mathematical and Physical Sciences | April 12, 2023 | $402,000 |
| Deciphering helicobacter pylori's glycocode: uncovering & harnessing drug targets | Biomedical Research and Research Training | September 9, 2021 | $400,669 |
Questions people ask
How much federal grant money does Bowdoin College get?
$12.5 million in 33 grant awards from fiscal 2021 to 2025, as obligations reported to USAspending.gov.
Which agency gives Bowdoin College the most?
The Department of Education, with $6.8 million in 6 awards. The National Science Foundation and the Department of Health and Human Services follow.
What is Bowdoin College's largest federal grant?
$1.8 million under Education Stabilization Fund, with its first action in the period on January 19, 2021. That counts only the money obligated in fiscal 2021 to 2025.
Which federal programs fund Bowdoin College?
Its largest are TRIO Upward Bound, Education Stabilization Fund and Biological Sciences.
Other grant recipients in Brunswick
- Coastal Enterprises, Inc.
- Atlantic Salmon Federation Inc
- Full Plates Full Potential
- Coastal Counties Workforce Inc
- The Genesis Fund
- Volunteers of America Northern New England, Inc
- Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority
- Town of Brunswick
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