Federal grants to Trustees of Tufts College
Trustees of Tufts College in Somerville, Massachusetts received $209 million in federal grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, across 328 awards. Its largest program was Biomedical Research and Research Training, with $19.4 million. In fiscal 2025 it was awarded $38.0 million.
From USAspending.gov award records, updated November 7, 2026.
- Grants, FY 2021 to 2025$209 million
- Awards328
- Awarded in FY 2025$38.0 million
- Largest award$16.0 million
By year
| Fiscal year | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY 2021 | 99 | $54.8 million |
| FY 2022 | 95 | $42.8 million |
| FY 2023 | 107 | $30.1 million |
| FY 2024 | 114 | $42.7 million |
| FY 2025 | 95 | $38.0 million |
Programs that fund Trustees of Tufts College
| Program | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Biomedical Research and Research Training | 20 | $19.4 million |
| Education Stabilization Fund | 2 | $18.7 million |
| Research and Development | 1 | $16.0 million |
| Engineering | 38 | $13.2 million |
| Computer and Information Science and Engineering | 34 | $12.5 million |
| Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) | 2 | $10.6 million |
| Mathematical and Physical Sciences | 40 | $9.8 million |
| Office of Science Financial Assistance Program | 11 | $9.1 million |
| STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) | 17 | $7.6 million |
| Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program | 11 | $7.4 million |
Awarding agencies
| Agency | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| National Science Foundation | 170 | $59.9 million |
| Department of Health and Human Services | 65 | $55.6 million |
| Department of Defense | 40 | $43.2 million |
| Department of Education | 2 | $18.2 million |
| Department of Energy | 14 | $14.3 million |
Largest awards
| Award | Program | First action | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| The purpose of this collaborative effort is to bring together a multidisciplinary group of scientists to advance the state of the art in measuring, predicting and enhancing cognitive capabilities and human-system interactions for both individuals and teams working in complex environments. | Research and Development | November 23, 2020 | $16.0 million |
| Pineo_institutional_CARES_2020 | Education Stabilization Fund | January 17, 2021 | $10.3 million |
| ** awards issued prior to january 20, 2025, were funded under previous administrations and may not reflect the priorities and policies of the current administration.** as the world population increases to 10 billion by 2050, total food and meat production must rise by 70 and 100%, respectively, to s | Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) | September 9, 2021 | $10.0 million |
| Reilly_CARES_2020 | Education Stabilization Fund | January 17, 2021 | $8.4 million |
| Act-now: autonomous cognitive technologies for novelty in open worlds | Research and Technology Development | December 17, 2020 | $4.5 million |
| High energy physics at tufts university | Office of Science Financial Assistance Program | August 27, 2021 | $3.7 million |
| New muri grant | Basic Scientific Research | June 12, 2023 | $3.3 million |
| Noninvasive bladder cancer diagnostics via machine learning analysis of nanoscale surface images of epithelial cells extracted from voided urine samples - project summary/abstract bladder cancer is common cancer with an estimated 81,190 new cases and 17,240 deaths in 2018 (with > 500,000 survivors) | Cancer Detection and Diagnosis Research | July 20, 2021 | $3.1 million |
| Mechanisms of genome instability mediated by simple dna repeats | Biomedical Research and Research Training | February 18, 2021 | $3.0 million |
| Tufts university: new award with control#3117-1509 under DE-FOA-0003117 - revolutionizing ore to steel to impact emissions (ROSIE) titled ''solving ore concentrate reduction with new chemistry'' tufts will revitalize the U.S. Ore-to-iron value chain by directly reducing iron ore concentrates with am | Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy | July 3, 2024 | $2.9 million |
Questions people ask
How much federal grant money does Trustees of Tufts College get?
$209 million in 328 grant awards from fiscal 2021 to 2025, as obligations reported to USAspending.gov.
Which agency gives Trustees of Tufts College the most?
The National Science Foundation, with $59.9 million in 170 awards. The Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense follow.
What is Trustees of Tufts College's largest federal grant?
$16.0 million under Research and Development, with its first action in the period on November 23, 2020. That counts only the money obligated in fiscal 2021 to 2025.
Which federal programs fund Trustees of Tufts College?
Its largest are Biomedical Research and Research Training, Education Stabilization Fund and Research and Development.
Other grant recipients in Somerville
- Form Factory 1, LLC
- Sublime Systems, Inc.
- City of Somerville MA
- Somerville Housing Authority
- Community Action Agency of Somerville, Inc.
- Micro-Leads Inc
- Eden Geopower Inc
- Rendever, Inc.
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