Loyola University Maryland, Inc.

Loyola University Maryland, Inc., a private tax-exempt research university headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, receives federal grant funding as a prime recipient across STEM education, humanities research, and workforce development programs, with no federal contracting footprint and minimal subrecipient engagement.

The institution's federal grant portfolio spans eleven prime awards concentrated in the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), with cumulative obligated funding of $33.5 million against $357 thousand in combined potential value across eighty-five total awards (prime and sub). Loyola's recent NSF grants include a $1,999,824 STEM Scholarships program (CFDA 47.076, February 2026 through January 2032) providing scholarships averaging $15,000 annually to twenty-four high-achieving, low-income undergraduates pursuing degrees in biology, chemistry, biochemistry, computer engineering, mechanical engineering, materials engineering, electrical engineering, and forensic science, with supplementary funding for faculty mentoring, peer mentoring, industry mentoring, cohort-building events, and third-party evaluation; a $398,804 project grant (CFDA 47.076, December 2025 through November 2028) developing active learning curriculum materials for undergraduate quantum computing, quantum machine learning, and quantum chemistry instruction; a $412,470 Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant (CFDA 47.083, October 2022 through September 2025) to establish a flow cytometry core facility with a fluorescence-activated cell sorter for multi-institutional undergraduate research training; and a $249,808 collaborative research initiation grant (CFDA 47.041, July 2022 through June 2024) defining quantitative literacy expectations for first-year engineering students. The NEH awarded Loyola $139,914 under its Collaborative Research program (CFDA 45.035, October 2026 through September 2028) for scholarly book-length manuscript development analyzing twelve autograph album artifacts from Holocaust museums and archives using frameworks from Holocaust studies, history, and material culture studies. Additional NSF funding supports culturally responsive STEM teacher preparation and workforce development initiatives, including a Noyce Track 1 teacher recruitment and retention grant (CFDA 47.076, June 2023 through May 2028) targeting secondary science and mathematics educators for Maryland high-need schools in partnership with Baltimore County Public Schools, and a school counselor scholarship program (Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, April 2023 through December 2026) focused on culturally responsive preparation. A $675,000 Small Business Administration Congressional Grants award (CFDA 59.059, September 2022 through August 2023) supported small business development and entrepreneurship initiatives. Loyola also received a Department of Housing and Urban Development Economic Development Initiative community project funding award (August 2024 through August 2032) under congressionally directed spending authority. The university's grant activity has remained steady at two to four awards annually over the past five years, with three prime awards reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. Loyola functions as a subrecipient on six federal grants managed by the University of Maryland Baltimore (conducting laboratory support for the Nathan Schnaper Intern Program in Translational Cancer Research across multiple award cycles), the Baltimore City Health Department (workforce development leadership training), and the Maryland Department of Emergency Management (COVID-19 emergency programming). The portfolio does not include federal contracts, IDIQs, or parent contract vehicles; Loyola operates exclusively within the federal grants ecosystem, serving twenty-nine distinct grantor agencies with particular depth at NSF, NIST, the Department of the Army, and NEH.