Federal grants to Trinity University
Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas received $18.9 million in federal grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, across 31 awards. Its largest program was Education Stabilization Fund, with $6.7 million. In fiscal 2025 it was awarded $1.8 million.
From USAspending.gov award records, updated October 31, 2026.
- Grants, FY 2021 to 2025$18.9 million
- Awards31
- Awarded in FY 2025$1.8 million
- Largest award$3.7 million
By year
| Fiscal year | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY 2021 | 15 | $9.8 million |
| FY 2022 | 10 | $2.6 million |
| FY 2023 | 9 | $2.3 million |
| FY 2024 | 11 | $2.3 million |
| FY 2025 | 6 | $1.8 million |
Programs that fund Trinity University
| Program | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Education Stabilization Fund | 2 | $6.7 million |
| TRIO Upward Bound | 2 | $2.2 million |
| Research Infrastructure Programs | 1 | $1.9 million |
| Biomedical Research and Research Training | 4 | $1.9 million |
| TRIO McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement | 2 | $1.3 million |
| Mathematical and Physical Sciences | 6 | $1.2 million |
| Aging Research | 1 | $786,451 |
| Geosciences | 4 | $721,840 |
| Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences | 2 | $499,993 |
| Engineering | 2 | $400,512 |
Awarding agencies
| Agency | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Education | 6 | $10.1 million |
| Department of Health and Human Services | 7 | $5.0 million |
| National Science Foundation | 14 | $2.9 million |
| Department of Agriculture | 1 | $300,000 |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 1 | $298,418 |
Largest awards
| Award | Program | First action | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trinity university CARES act for relief of institutional expenses due to the COVID 19 pandemic | Education Stabilization Fund | January 17, 2021 | $3.7 million |
| CARES act higher education emergency relief fund for trinity university. Funds will be made available to students in accordance with the attached certificate of agreement. | Education Stabilization Fund | January 17, 2021 | $3.0 million |
| Development of immunological reagents for the identification of new world monkey biomarkers - project summary marmosets, squirrel monkeys, and owl monkeys are new world monkeys (NWM) studied extensively in a broad array of research areas, including infection, vision, audition, social behavior, cogni | Research Infrastructure Programs | March 15, 2022 | $1.9 million |
| Expanding educational opportunity through collaborative community-based partnership | TRIO Upward Bound | May 23, 2022 | $1.8 million |
| Mcnair scholars program at trinity university | TRIO McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement | August 8, 2022 | $1.1 million |
| Marmosets as a model for understanding social, neuroendocrine, and vascular contributions to cognitive aging | Aging Research | April 14, 2021 | $786,451 |
| Collaborative research: rui: structure-function relationships and efficiency of bacterial flagellar motors using computational fluid dynamics and directed evolution experiments -bacteria are among the oldest organisms on earth. Through biological evolution, many bacteria have acquired a biomechanica | Mathematical and Physical Sciences | June 28, 2022 | $540,000 |
| Functionalized receptors for efficient epitope recognition - project summary biomedical science relies heavily on methods for attaching ligand binding sites to proteins. Such epitope tags are important for protein affinity purification, for improving protein solubility, and for adding functionality | Biomedical Research and Research Training | August 27, 2025 | $535,867 |
| Minimal protein affinity tags - project summary biomedical science relies heavily on methods for attaching ligand binding sites to proteins. Such affinity tags are essential for protein affinity purification, for improving protein solubility, and for adding functionality to proteins such as fluoresc | Biomedical Research and Research Training | July 15, 2021 | $527,940 |
| Metallopeptide based mimics of mononuclear nonheme iron enzymes: understanding enzymatic reactivity using designed metallopeptides - project abstract. Mononuclear nonheme iron (MNHFE) enzymes perform an array of chemically diverse reactions that are vital to many different aspects of human health in | Biomedical Research and Research Training | March 11, 2021 | $488,185 |
Questions people ask
How much federal grant money does Trinity University get?
$18.9 million in 31 grant awards from fiscal 2021 to 2025, as obligations reported to USAspending.gov.
Which agency gives Trinity University the most?
The Department of Education, with $10.1 million in 6 awards. The Department of Health and Human Services and the National Science Foundation follow.
What is Trinity University's largest federal grant?
$3.7 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 Trinity University?
Its largest are Education Stabilization Fund, TRIO Upward Bound and Research Infrastructure Programs.
Other grant recipients in San Antonio
- Compass Connections
- BCFS Health and Human Services
- The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
- City of San Antonio
- San Antonio Metropolitan Transit
- The University of Texas at San Antonio
- Family Endeavors, Inc.
- Housing Authority of the City of San Antonio
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