Azusa Pacific University

Azusa Pacific University, doing business as Azusa Conservatory Of Music, operates as a private, non-profit, faith-based minority-serving and Hispanic-serving institution based in Azusa, California, delivering federal educational services and student support programming as a prime recipient on federal grants (95% of recent awards) and as a prime contractor on Navy tuition-assistance delivery orders under a single-award Basic Ordering Agreement. The university does not hold IDIQs, GWACs, or BPAs and competes in full-and-open federal contracting with no set-aside designations across its federal footprint.

Azusa Pacific's federal work splits sharply between contract and grant activities. On the contract side, the institution holds a single-award Basic Ordering Agreement with the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, established September 15, 2021, and running through September 15, 2031, that funds recurring delivery orders for tuition and fees supporting Navy personnel pursuing degree and non-degree programs. Recent contract awards on this vehicle include a $45,240 delivery order for tuition and fees (August 2025), a $23,610 delivery order (January 2026), and a $17,344 summer-term delivery order (July 2025); individual task orders typically range from approximately $8,000 to $55,000. This BOA represents the entirety of Azusa Pacific's prime federal contract activity — the Navy accounts for 17 awards and $346 thousand in combined potential value across the visible contract footprint.

Federal grant work dominates the institution's federal engagement and reflects Azusa Pacific's mission as a student-support and workforce-development provider. The university is a recipient on grants from the Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education (12 awards covering TRIO Student Support Services, TRIO McNair, TRIO Upward Bound, and related student success initiatives), the Department of Health and Human Services Bureau of Health Professionals (15 awards supporting nursing education, public health workforce development, geriatrics training, and graduate psychology education programs), and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (5 awards for behavioral health, substance-use disorder training, and community mental health services). Representative grant work includes a $272,364 TRIO Student Support Services award (Office of Postsecondary Education, September 2025–August 2026) funding comprehensive support services for disadvantaged students; a five-year Project Youth Wellness grant (SAMHSA Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, September 2024–September 2029) implementing prevention navigation and integrated substance-use, mental-health, and sexual-health services for youth aged 12–24 in the San Gabriel Valley; a three-year Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention award (Bureau of Health Professionals, September 2022–September 2025) supporting registered nurse training and health-equity curriculum development; and multiple Nursing Student Loans awards (CFDA 93.364) totaling $7.9 million (July 2022–June 2079) providing long-term, low-interest loans to nursing students. The institution also holds Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) grants from the Internal Revenue Service (October 2023–September 2024 and October 2024–September 2025, with a new award effective October 2025–September 2026) delivering tax preparation services to low-to-moderate-income populations and supporting EITC filing. In the grant sub-recipient role, Azusa Pacific serves under awards from Northwestern University (education decision-making research tools, February 2025), the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (university health and cleaning PPE provision, 2024 and related periods), and Family Health International (English-language access and MOOC development programs, July 2023 and December 2023).

Customer concentration sits with federal education and health workforce agencies. The top five funding sources account for 67% of awards by count: the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (21 awards), the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (17 awards, $346 thousand combined potential value), HHS's Bureau of Health Professionals (15 awards), the Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education (12 awards), and HHS's Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (5 awards). The two rankings track closely, with the Navy's contract footprint anchoring dollar value while HHS and Education dominate award volume through multi-year grant programs. Activity has declined year over year — 14 awards in 2022 to 1 award in 2026 — with 9 awards reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore facing recompete risk. The institution's broader federal footprint reflects engagement across 23 distinct customer agencies, including the National Science Foundation (STEM education research), the National Endowment for the Humanities (ethnic studies curriculum development), and the Office on Violence Against Women (campus safety programming).