Chatham University

Chatham University, a private non-profit educational institution based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, operates as a federal grant recipient and holds a single-award Basic Ordering Agreement with the Department of the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery to deliver tuition, fees, and educational services to military personnel on a call-as-needed basis through September 2034.

Chatham's federal footprint is overwhelmingly grant-driven. The university acts as prime recipient on 79 of 80 tracked awards (99%) and derives most revenue from research and workforce development grants rather than contract task orders. Recent prime grant work spans the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences and Geosciences programs—a $234,805 award (CFDA 47.074, August 2026) to develop computational statistical methods for high-dimensional biological data in ecology and evolutionary biology running through July 2029; a $249,950 project grant (CFDA 47.049, September 2025) to accelerate molecular property calculations from computer simulations through formal master equation approaches, with integrated undergraduate researcher training, completing August 2027; and a $199,697 geosciences award (CFDA 47.050, January 2025) to quantify hydrologic impacts of invasive plant species in peri-urban forests through restoration and native replanting, completing December 2026. The university also holds workforce development grants from the Department of Health and Human Services' Bureau of Health Professionals, including a $250,804-range counseling psychology PsyD program award (July 2025, CFDA not specified) training health service psychology students for substance abuse and trauma treatment in medically underserved communities, and a behavioral health workforce education grant (September 2023, ultimate completion September 2026). The Department of Agriculture awarded a $596,622.64 cooperative agreement (March 2026, CFDA 10.175) under the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program to enhance specialty crop competitiveness through marketing and producer development, running through February 2029. Chatham also received a $157,000 SBA Congressional Grants award (CFDA 59.059, October 2024) and holds multiple Women's Business Ownership Assistance grants (CFDA 59.043) supporting entrepreneurship training for women-owned businesses, plus a mental health and suicide prevention grant from SAMHSA's Center for Mental Health Services (September 2022, ultimate completion September 2025). On the contract side, Chatham holds a Basic Ordering Agreement (N0018924GZ030) under which the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery has issued six delivery orders for tuition and fees—including a $22,424 order (July 2025), an $11,453.58 order (May 2025), and a $10,069 order (January 2026), all firm fixed price with completion dates ranging from April through December 2025. The combined potential value across all 80 tracked awards is $303,000, though obligated dollars total $30.5 million, indicating a significant volume of completed and invoiced work.

Customer concentration is fragmented across 22 federal agencies. The Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 4 leads by award count (19 awards, $127,000 combined potential value), followed by the Small Business Administration's Office of Entrepreneurial Development (7 awards), the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (6 awards), and the Department of the Navy (combined 7 awards, $75,000 potential value including the BOA). Award volume has remained steady across recent years (4 awards in 2022, 2 in 2023, 6 each in 2024 and 2025, 4 in 2026), with three awards facing ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. One sub-grant award appears in the source: Chatham received a sub-award from the University of Pittsburgh on a dopamine transporter trafficking research grant (September 2026). The university competes on full-and-open PSC categories without set-aside designations; primary work is classified under Education/Training—Tuition/Registration/Membership Fees (32 awards) and Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (18 NAICS awards).