Federal grants to Southwestern University
Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas received $9.0 million in federal grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, across 9 awards. Its largest program was Education Stabilization Fund, with $5.1 million. In fiscal 2025 it was awarded $188,414.
From USAspending.gov award records, updated November 7, 2026.
- Grants, FY 2021 to 2025$9.0 million
- Awards9
- Awarded in FY 2025$188,414
- Largest award$2.8 million
By year
| Fiscal year | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY 2021 | 3 | $5.4 million |
| FY 2022 | 3 | $1.8 million |
| FY 2023 | 2 | $812,406 |
| FY 2024 | 2 | $802,289 |
| FY 2025 | 2 | $188,414 |
Programs that fund Southwestern University
| Program | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Education Stabilization Fund | 2 | $5.1 million |
| TRIO Upward Bound | 2 | $1.5 million |
| STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) | 1 | $1.5 million |
| Grants to Reduce Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking on Campus | 1 | $496,267 |
| Mathematical and Physical Sciences | 1 | $249,918 |
| Biological Sciences | 1 | $131,892 |
| Aquatics Resources Management | 1 | $40,000 |
Awarding agencies
| Agency | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Education | 4 | $6.6 million |
| National Science Foundation | 3 | $1.9 million |
| Department of Justice | 1 | $496,267 |
| Department of the Interior | 1 | $40,000 |
Largest awards
| Award | Program | First action | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARES act: higher education emergency relief fund | Education Stabilization Fund | January 17, 2021 | $2.8 million |
| CARES act: higher education emergency relief fund | Education Stabilization Fund | January 17, 2021 | $2.2 million |
| Equipped for success: science identity, community, and engagement to promote stem student persistence | STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) | November 16, 2021 | $1.5 million |
| Southwestern university upward bound program | TRIO Upward Bound | May 23, 2022 | $1.2 million |
| The strengthening culturally specific campus approaches to address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking initiative (csc initiative) supports historically black colleges and universities (HBCUS), hispanic-serving institutions (HSIS), and tribal colleges and universities (t | Grants to Reduce Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking on Campus | September 23, 2024 | $496,267 |
| Southwestern university upward bound project: georgetown and jarrell isds | TRIO Upward Bound | July 8, 2021 | $294,118 |
| Leaps-mps: elucidating the properties and role of a stress-induced fluorescence state in photosynthetic diatoms -in this project, funded by the mps-leaps (launching early-career academic pathways) program and managed by the division of chemistry (CHE), professor massey and her students at southweste | Mathematical and Physical Sciences | August 21, 2025 | $249,918 |
| Brc-bio: carbon sequestration potential and drought resilience with wet meadow restoration under a changing climate -global air temperature has increased by over one degree celsius since the industrial revolution and is on its way to reaching two degrees celsius by 2041. This scenario will cause dev | Biological Sciences | December 28, 2022 | $131,892 |
| Wet meadows in the gunnison basin of Colorado are a critical brood rearing habitat for the ground dwelling bird the gunnison sage grouse centrocercus minimus which is listed as threatened under the endangered species act the sage grouse require a large contiguous area of sagebrush artemisia spp for | Aquatics Resources Management | September 26, 2022 | $40,000 |
Questions people ask
How much federal grant money does Southwestern University get?
$9.0 million in 9 grant awards from fiscal 2021 to 2025, as obligations reported to USAspending.gov.
Which agency gives Southwestern University the most?
The Department of Education, with $6.6 million in 4 awards. The National Science Foundation and the Department of Justice follow.
What is Southwestern University's largest federal grant?
$2.8 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 Southwestern University?
Its largest are Education Stabilization Fund, TRIO Upward Bound and STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources).
Other grant recipients in Georgetown
- Williamson-Burnet County Opportunities, Inc.
- Lone Star Circle of Care
- Williamson County
- Georgetown Housing Authority
- City of Georgetown
- Resilient Power Systems Inc.
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