Hofstra University

Hofstra University, a private non-profit educational institution in Hempstead, New York, provides federal grant funding for academic research, undergraduate STEM education initiatives, and specialized workforce training programs as a prime grant recipient and sub-recipient. The university competes across full-and-open federal grant vehicles without set-aside designations and operates a smaller federal contract footprint delivering tuition and educational services to the Department of the Navy.

Hofstra's federal award portfolio reflects a research and academic mission. The university acts as prime recipient on 196 awards (89%) spanning basic research, applied research, and educational programming across the sciences and engineering. Recent prime grant work includes a $1.3 million NSF STEM Education award (September 2024–August 2028) developing computer science curriculum and teacher professional development across nine states; a $452 thousand NSF Biological Sciences award (June 2024–May 2027) investigating epigenetic regulation of transposable elements in maize, with undergraduate research experience and fellowship components; a $355 thousand National Institute of General Medical Sciences award (July 2026–June 2031) supporting the T32 Medical Scientist Training Program at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, which matriculates four to six students annually in integrated MD/PhD training; and a $299 thousand NSF CISE award (September 2025–August 2027) funding the Microelectronics in Connecting Real-World Opportunities for Computer Science initiative, a research-practice partnership with BirdBrain Technologies and North Carolina State University to enhance Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles curriculum across 13 high school teachers in three states.

Customer concentration is diffuse across a 40-agency portfolio. The National Science Foundation leads by award count with 40 awards (no aggregated dollar value specified in the source), while the Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery dominates by potential value with 31 awards worth $1.3 million combined, largely small firm-fixed-price delivery orders under a single-award Basic Ordering Agreement (N0018914GZ019) running through August 2035 and providing tuition and fee support for Navy personnel training. The top five customers account for 49% of awards by count and 74% by combined potential value. Recent Navy contracts include delivery orders of $15 thousand to $58 thousand each for tuition and fees (awarded January 2022 through January 2024, with completions through June 2024).

Hofstra's grant footprint spans the National Science Foundation (40 awards covering STEM education, mathematical sciences, computer science and engineering, and biological sciences), the National Institute of Mental Health (closed-loop electrical brain stimulation research and workplace diversity studies), the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (medical device design education and tissue engineering), the National Institutes of Health (T32 Medical Scientist Training Program), the Department of Education (STEM scholarships and teacher professional development), the National Endowment for the Arts (university art museum operations), the Internal Revenue Service (Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic education), the Economic Development Administration (entrepreneurship support for veterans and distressed-community entrepreneurs), and the Department of Agriculture (green lacewing pest-management research). In its sub-recipient capacity, Hofstra participates in prime grants from the University of Maryland College Park (crop resistance genetics), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (R25 knowledge graph project), the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research (T32 Translational Immunology Training grants, with four successive annual sub-awards from 2022–2024), and New York University (speech-language pathology treatment outcomes research).

Activity has remained steady at 9–12 awards annually over the past five years (2022–2025), with eight awards scheduled for completion within the next twenty-four months. The university's combined obligated dollars ($124.8 million across all awards) substantially exceed the combined potential value ($2.8 million), reflecting multi-year commitments and prior-year obligations in its large historical grant portfolio spanning four decades. Hofstra's characterization in the source as "Administration of Education Programs" (28 awards) and "Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools" (12 awards) aligns with its core positioning as a research university and educational service provider rather than a contracting vendor; the Navy contract work represents a narrow tactical extension to support military medical personnel education.