Loyola Marymount University

Loyola Marymount University, a private Catholic institution based in Los Angeles, operates as a federal grant recipient (96% of its recent 185 awards are prime grants) with a portfolio focused on research, educational outreach, and institutional capacity building across 43 distinct federal agencies. LMU is a tax-exempt nonprofit educational institution and does not hold federal contracts; all federal funding flows through grant awards and sub-grants, positioning it as a pure research and education recipient rather than a federal service contractor.

LMU's capability footprint centers on federally funded academic research, workforce development, and K–12 educational partnerships. Representative grant work includes a $539,625 National Institute on Aging award (CFDA 93.866) for age-induced mitochondrial turnover research, running through July 2029; a $150,000 National Science Foundation award (CFDA 47.070) for task graph scheduling algorithm design and empirical evaluation across distributed computing platforms including Pegasus, Parsl, and Docker, awarded August 2025 through July 2027; and a $350,000 Department of Veterans Affairs grant (CFDA 64.204) under the Veterans Legacy Grants Program for the Digital Veterans Legacy Project, an educational initiative engaging K–12 students and teachers in collaborative research and digital storytelling about veterans interred in national cemeteries. LMU also holds a $2.93 million NSF Integrative Activities award (CFDA 47.083) as part of the Tri-Alliance consortium with Santa Clara University and University of San Francisco to transform post-award research infrastructure at emerging research institutions. Additional recent work includes NSF funding for AI and language technology research (CFDA 47.070, $250,000), National Endowment for the Humanities support for public history K–12 summer institutes and archaeology museum preservation, and multiple National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism grants developing parent-based interventions and gamified digital prevention platforms targeting college drinking and mental health.

Customer concentration is highly distributed across mission-driven agencies. The top five customer agencies account for 58% of awards by count: the Department of the Air Force leads with 43 awards (primarily through ROTC and Air Force training programs), followed by the National Science Foundation (30 awards), the Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education (19 awards including McNair Scholars and Upward Bound programs), the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (9 awards), and Air Education and Training Command (7 awards). By potential value, the distribution is less concentrated — NASA's Shared Services Center, NSF, DOE, DoD, and NIH collectively drive the dollar footprint, though the source reports combined potential value of only $214,000 across all 185 awards, reflecting the fact that most figures are obligated rather than ceiling-capped (actual obligated dollars are $103.8 million).

LMU places work under two named indefinite delivery vehicles: F0160079D0242 (48 task orders, Air Force) and W9123720D0010 (1 task order, Army). The Air Force vehicle dominates LMU's IDV exposure and anchors its largest customer relationship.

Activity trajectory shows modest fluctuation with eight awards in 2022, declining to four in 2026 (source captures only the first eight months of 2026). Eight awards (combined potential value $150,000) reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and therefore face recompete exposure. LMU's subcontractor footprint is minimal — four recent grant sub-awards place LMU as a research collaborator and curriculum developer under primes including Boise State University (virtual reality chemistry lab equity project), University of Massachusetts Medical School (animal science education outreach), Seattle University (pedagogical module development), and the Department of Education California (charter school expansion funding). One contract sub-award places LMU under Stantec Consulting Services for FEMA-USACE seismic study technical support in California. This sub engagement is sparse relative to the 96% prime posture and does not characterize LMU's federal role.

LMU's grant portfolio emphasizes STEM research (NSF, NIH, NASA), behavioral and public health interventions (NIAAA, NIH), education and workforce development (DOEd), and humanities scholarship (NEH). The institution leverages its Jesuit mission and primarily undergraduate status to compete for NSF awards targeting research universities at emerging research institutions and teaching-focused schools; workforce development grants emphasize historically underserved populations through McNair Scholars, Upward Bound, and Accelerating Transfer and Low-Income Access and Success (ATLAS) programming. No federal contracts, no set-aside designations, and no commercial contract vehicles characterize LMU's footprint — the institution operates exclusively in the grant economy.