Federal grants to Macalester College
Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota received $11.7 million in federal grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, across 21 awards. Its largest program was Education Stabilization Fund, with $6.0 million. In fiscal 2025 it was awarded $927,862.
From USAspending.gov award records, updated October 31, 2026.
- Grants, FY 2021 to 2025$11.7 million
- Awards21
- Awarded in FY 2025$927,862
- Largest award$3.3 million
By year
| Fiscal year | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY 2021 | 11 | $7.9 million |
| FY 2022 | 2 | $121,551 |
| FY 2023 | 6 | $795,021 |
| FY 2024 | 2 | $1.9 million |
| FY 2025 | 3 | $927,862 |
Programs that fund Macalester College
| Program | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Education Stabilization Fund | 2 | $6.0 million |
| Conservation Research and Development | 1 | $1.8 million |
| Geosciences | 5 | $1.3 million |
| Mathematical and Physical Sciences | 4 | $1.1 million |
| Biological Sciences | 2 | $469,202 |
| Computer and Information Science and Engineering | 2 | $325,981 |
| Grants to Reduce Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking on Campus | 1 | $300,000 |
| Basic Scientific Research | 1 | $177,762 |
| Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities | 1 | $146,203 |
| Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences | 1 | $143,126 |
Awarding agencies
| Agency | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Education | 2 | $6.0 million |
| National Science Foundation | 14 | $3.3 million |
| Department of Energy | 1 | $1.8 million |
| Department of Justice | 1 | $300,000 |
| Department of Defense | 1 | $177,762 |
Largest awards
| Award | Program | First action | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Macalester college higher education emergency relief fund institutional portion | Education Stabilization Fund | January 17, 2021 | $3.3 million |
| Macalester college higher education emergency relief fund request | Education Stabilization Fund | January 17, 2021 | $2.6 million |
| The collected project: to address federal consortium for advanced batteries goals by designing and implementing a battery sustainability and energy storage educational and outreach platform that targets Minnesota and extends to other states. To change battery recycling behavior using three publicly | Conservation Research and Development | July 31, 2024 | $1.8 million |
| Reu site: undergraduate research pathways that broaden and strengthen the geosciences | Geosciences | June 29, 2021 | $642,244 |
| Rui: the tropospheric oxidation of biogenic hydrocarbons: probing temperature dependence and autoxidation | Mathematical and Physical Sciences | June 8, 2021 | $459,686 |
| Brc-bio: the role of resources and competition in shaping fine-scale territorial and fission-fusion dynamics in a non-model population of a model species -animal sociality often presents a paradox: individuals living in groups must share valuable resources?such as food, mates, and territory?while al | Biological Sciences | July 8, 2025 | $414,830 |
| Rui: pyrazoloindazoles as long wavelength chromophores and emitters -with the support of the chemical mechanism, function, and properties program of the division of chemistry, professor dennis cao of the chemistry department at macalester college is developing a class of organic dye compounds that i | Mathematical and Physical Sciences | June 13, 2025 | $365,000 |
| Career: shallow angle subduction and tectonic underplating of magmatic arc root zones: a recipe for high-flux magmatism? | Geosciences | July 6, 2021 | $311,610 |
| Integrating resources: comprehensive, coordinated campus prevention and response | Grants to Reduce Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking on Campus | September 27, 2021 | $300,000 |
| Rui: electronic spectroscopy of vanadium hydride and niobium hydride | Mathematical and Physical Sciences | August 12, 2021 | $264,328 |
Questions people ask
How much federal grant money does Macalester College get?
$11.7 million in 21 grant awards from fiscal 2021 to 2025, as obligations reported to USAspending.gov.
Which agency gives Macalester College the most?
The Department of Education, with $6.0 million in 2 awards. The National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy follow.
What is Macalester College's largest federal grant?
$3.3 million under Education Stabilization Fund, with its first action in the period on January 17, 2021. That counts only the money obligated in fiscal 2021 to 2025.
Which federal programs fund Macalester College?
Its largest are Education Stabilization Fund, Conservation Research and Development and Geosciences.
Other grant recipients in Saint Paul
- Minnesota Department of Human Services
- Minnesota Department of Transportation
- Department of Commerce Minnesota
- Minnesota Department of Health
- The State of Minnesota of Employment & Economic Development
- Minnesota Department of Public Safety
- Judiciary Courts of State of Minnesota
- Minnesota Public Facilities Authority
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