Loyola Marymount University

Loyola Marymount University (LMU), a private Catholic institution based in Los Angeles, California, operates as a federal grant recipient (96% of its 183 recent awards are prime grants) supporting academic and scientific research across 42 distinct federal agencies. As a tax-exempt nonprofit educational institution, LMU does not compete under set-aside categories and receives no federal contracts; its federal footprint is entirely grant-funded research, curriculum development, and educational outreach.

LMU's customer concentration sits heavily with civilian research and education agencies. The Department of the Air Force leads by award count (43 awards), followed by the National Science Foundation (29 awards), the Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education (19 awards), and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (9 awards), together accounting for 58% of recent awards. By potential value, the picture shifts slightly: a $150 thousand NASA Science Mission Directorate award anchors the top tier, with NSF, DOE, and NIH/NIAAA research grants constituting the bulk of committed dollars. The top parent vehicles are Air Force Indefinite Delivery Contracts F0160079D0242 (48 task orders) and W9123720D0010 (1 task order), though these represent institutional grants and cooperative agreements rather than traditional task-order procurements.

LMU's capability portfolio centers on applied and basic research spanning life sciences, computer science, education, and social sciences. Representative prime grant work includes a $2.933 million NSF Integrative Activities award (co-recipient with Santa Clara University and University of San Francisco) for the Tri-Alliance for Post-Award Innovation, developing research administration support models for emerging research institutions; a $250 thousand NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences grant for spectral algorithms applied to dynamic social networks and knowledge graphs, analyzing topic clusters in online discourse including COVID-19, QAnon, and hate speech; a $150 thousand NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering award for task graph scheduling algorithm design and evaluation in distributed computing systems, incorporating undergraduate research opportunities; and a $350 thousand Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration grant for the Digital Veterans Legacy Project, which trains teacher ambassadors to develop curriculum-aligned lesson plans engaging K-12 students in researching and documenting veteran biographies. Additional prime grant activity includes parent-based intervention research on underage drinking (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism), public history curriculum development for historically marginalized high school students (National Endowment for the Humanities), open educational resources for social justice themes (Department of Education), and STEM workforce development programs including Upward Bound and McNair Scholars (Department of Education).

Activity has remained modest and relatively flat—eight awards in 2022, peaking at ten in 2024, with six in 2025 and two in 2026—reflecting LMU's research-institution posture rather than high-volume contracting. Thirteen awards (combined potential value $150 thousand) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. In its sub-recipient role, LMU performs targeted research and curriculum support under prime recipients including Stantec Consulting Services (FEMA-USACE seismic study review for embankment analysis), the University of Massachusetts Medical School (informal science education outreach materials for animal facility engagement), Seattle University (Module 1 curriculum creation and mentoring hub oversight), Boise State University (virtual reality chemistry lab implementation and student assessment), and the University of Notre Dame (collaborative translation and scholarly annotation of Schelling's Philosophy of Revelation lectures). The combined obligated-to-potential-value ratio across all awards is anomalously high (47,711%), indicating either very old awards with substantial prior-year obligations or data encoding errors in the source; decision-relevance is marginal given the source's clarity on recent activity trajectory and award composition.