Elon University

Elon University's Student Financial Services Division operates as a non-profit educational institution recipient of federal grants and contracts, competing on a full-and-open basis without set-aside designations. The division does not hold contracts as a federal contractor prime or subcontractor; instead it functions as a grant recipient across diverse federal research and educational partnership programs, with recent activity concentrated in NSF mathematical sciences funding, Department of the Navy tuition assistance, NASA science program grants, and consumer safety research.

The division's federal footprint spans 88 total awards across prime grants (81 awards, 92%) and grant sub-awards (7 awards, 8%) since 1985, with recent activity showing five awards in 2025 and two awards through May 2026. Combined potential value stands at $723 thousand against obligated dollars of $27.4 million, reflecting a significant multi-year award portfolio. Distinct federal customer agencies number 27 across the activity window.

Customer concentration by award count spans Army (14 awards), Air Force Air Education and Training Command (12 awards, $246 thousand combined potential value), NSF (10 awards), Corporation for National and Community Service (6 awards), and National Endowment for the Humanities (3 awards), accounting for 51% of recent awards. By potential value, concentration shifts to the Consumer Product Safety Commission ($301 thousand from a single R&D contract for surface wiping methodology evaluation), Air Force AETC ($246 thousand across 12 task orders on IDIQ F0160003D0054), and NASA Shared Services Center ($150 thousand from a balanced science program grant awarded November 2025). The division also holds three Navy awards ($22 thousand combined) for SSEP tuition assistance and two Department of Justice awards ($4 thousand).

Representative prime grant work includes a $150 thousand NASA Science program award (CFDA 43.001) supporting a balanced science initiative extending through November 2026; a $121,965 NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences grant (CFDA 47.049) for braid group representation theory research with applications to quantum computing and molecular biology, running through August 2027; a $301 thousand Consumer Product Safety Commission definitive contract for surface wiping methodology R&D through September 2025; a $22,014.50 Navy purchase order for SSEP tuition assistance completed May 2024; and an NSF Research at Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) award for mathematical modeling of SARS-CoV-2 immune response completed December 2025. Additional capacity includes NSF funding for STEM transfer pathways from community colleges, Office on Violence Against Women Campus Program funding for violence prevention through June 2026, and AmeriCorps VISTA support (Corporation for National and Community Service) for afterschool and food security programming extending to August 2027.

The division engages as a grant sub-recipient under prime grantees including North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (collegiate recovery programming, sub-awards dated May 2026, June 2025, and December 2024), Duke University (attentional resilience research, October 2025), University of San Diego (institutional research dashboards and forecasting model validation, October 2025), and University of Central Florida Board of Trustees (destructive behavior scale validation, sub-awards dated January 2024 and May 2023). Five awards reach ultimate completion within twenty-four months ($150 thousand combined potential value), presenting recompete timing for NSF, NASA, and other federal research sponsors. The division's category footprint is anchored in educational programming and research services under NAICS 611310 (Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools) and PSC Education/Training codes, with minimal prime contract apparatus and no participation in federal contracting vehicles, GWACs, or IDIQs as a prime.