Elon University

Elon University Student Financial Services Division, a private nonprofit educational institution based in Elon, North Carolina, operates as a recipient of federal research grants and as a service provider on education and tuition assistance contracts, with 91% of recent awards held as prime recipient and 9% as sub-recipient under peer institutions. The division has no federal contract vehicle status and does not serve as a prime contractor; all federal work flows through grant awards and purchase orders funded by civilian and military agencies.

Elon's customer base is dispersed across 27 distinct federal agencies with no dominant concentrator. The Department of the Army leads in award volume (14 awards), followed by the Air Force Air Education and Training Command (12 awards, $246 thousand combined potential value), the National Science Foundation (10 awards), the Corporation for National and Community Service (6 awards), and the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences (3 awards). By potential value, the Consumer Product Safety Commission ranks highest ($301 thousand on a single award), followed by the Air Force Air Education and Training Command ($246 thousand), and the NASA Shared Services Center ($150 thousand). The distribution reflects the institution's dual role: military tuition assistance work anchors Air Force task orders against vehicle F0160003D0054, while research grants fragment across NSF programs, the Department of Justice, the Office on Violence Against Women, and specialized civilian agencies.

Recent grant work centers on fundamental mathematical and life sciences research aligned with NSF's Research at Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) framework. A $500 thousand NSF award (CFDA 47.049, effective September 2026) funds mathematical modeling of innate antiviral and inflammatory responses in viral myocarditis, integrating computational modeling with laboratory validation and undergraduate researcher training. A $121 thousand NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences grant (CFDA 47.049, September 2025 through August 2027) supports braid group representation theory research with applications to quantum computing and satellite orbital mechanics, incorporating dance-based STEM outreach. A $150 thousand NASA Science grant (CFDA 43.001, awarded November 2025) executed through the Student Financial Services Division itself funds a balanced science program aligned with National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine guidance. On the contract side, the Consumer Product Safety Commission awarded a $301 thousand definitive contract (September 2022, completing September 2025) for research and development on surface wiping methodology applicability, performed in Bethesda, Maryland. The Department of the Navy Office of Naval Research issued a $22 thousand purchase order (January 2024) for SSEP tuition assistance services.

Sub-recipient work includes partnerships with the University of San Diego on research infrastructure and institutional effectiveness modeling (two awards beginning October 2025 and July 2026), the North Carolina Department of Health & Human Services on the Collegiate Recovery Program (three sub-awards between December 2024 and May 2026), Duke University on attentional resilience research in older adults (May 2026), and the University of Central Florida on destructive behavior scale validation studies (May 2023 and January 2024). Activity has remained modest and episodic — four awards in 2022, declining to one in 2023, then recovering to five in 2025 and four in 2026 year to date. Four awards carrying combined potential value of $150 thousand face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing modest recompete exposure. The division's federal footprint is characterized by undergraduate and graduate STEM education, campus-based safety initiatives, tuition assistance administration, and foundational research in mathematics and life sciences, with no concentration in any single customer agency or contract vehicle.