Chime Institute

Chime Institute is a nonprofit organization acting as a federal grant sub-recipient, delivering education-focused services to improve teaching and learning outcomes in high-poverty schools under sub-awards from the Department of Education. The organization operates exclusively as a sub-recipient—100% of its tracked federal activity consists of three sub-awards totaling $256 thousand, all flowing through the Department of Education as the prime grantee.

Chime Institute's federal footprint is concentrated in K–12 education support and pandemic response. All three sub-awards originated with the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education in 2024: two awards dated January 1, 2024 supporting COVID-19 pandemic prevention, preparation, and response; and one award dated October 1, 2024 targeting improvement of teaching and learning in high-poverty schools, particularly for students failing or most at-risk of failing to meet challenging state academic achievement standards. The combined obligated value across these three awards is $256 thousand.

The vendor serves a single federal customer agency (the Department of Education) and holds no prime contract vehicles, no direct federal contracts, and no prime grant awards. Activity in the source data is limited to 2024, with three awards placed during that calendar year. Given the sub-recipient structure, the nonprofit's federal engagement flows through state-level prime grantees rather than direct relationships with federal contracting or grant-making offices. No information regarding parent contract vehicles, teaming arrangements, or broader capability scope beyond the named education-support work is present in the source material.