Loyola University New Orleans

Loyola University New Orleans, a tax-exempt nonprofit private university headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, acts as a federal grant recipient (96% of recent awards) delivering undergraduate and graduate education, research infrastructure, clinical mental health services, and environmental monitoring across thirty-two distinct federal agencies. The institution does not hold federal contracts or contract vehicles; its footprint is exclusively grant-based and concentrated in education and training delivery (55 awards under Education/Training PSC codes), research support, and community service programming.

Loyola's customer base is diffuse across federal agencies. The Department of the Army leads by award count with thirteen awards, followed by the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 17 (nine awards), the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (nine awards), the Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education (nine awards), and the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Test Center (eight awards). However, dollar concentration diverges from volume. The top five customers by potential value — the Department of Justice, the Department of the Air Force, and three Veterans Affairs regional networks — collectively anchor 40% of combined potential value. Notably, the source reports $45.3 million in combined dollars obligated against $812 thousand in combined potential value, a signal that obligated spend substantially exceeds recorded potential-value ceilings, reflecting multi-year execution of project grants.

Recent prime grant work includes a $249,995 National Institute of General Medical Sciences award (August 2026) for acquisition of a laser scanning confocal microscope to support undergraduate research and faculty projects in neuronal biology, connective tissue development, cancer cell polarity, tissue regeneration, and wetland ecosystem characterization across the Departments of Biological Sciences, Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Psychology and Neuroscience. A $272,364 Office of Postsecondary Education TRIO Student Support Services award (September 2025 through August 2026) funds comprehensive student support targeting low-income, first-generation, and students with disabilities. A $230 thousand-plus Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Program award (September 2023 through September 2028) supports the Loyola Center for Counseling and Education's expansion of sliding-scale mental health services to children under twelve in the greater New Orleans area. A cooperative agreement with the DOI Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 (July 2022 through December 2026) funds long-term monitoring of Okaloosa darters at twenty-two sites on Eglin Air Force Base, with undergraduate student training in environmental science and STEM fieldwork. The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded funding (September 2022 through February 2024) for Special Collections and Archives environmental monitoring infrastructure upgrades to mitigate hurricane damage risk. The Upward Bound Program, an Office of Postsecondary Education project grant awarded June 2022 through August 2027, supports college-preparation services.

In its subrecipient role (four percent of recent awards), Loyola receives sub-awards from Louisiana State University for biomedical research development projects, from Tulane Educational Fund for community court-data analysis work, from Homeland Security and Emergency Management for campus remediation and permanent work related to disaster recovery, from the Orleans Parish District Attorney for human trafficking task force data analysis and re-entry services evaluation, and from Tulane for court data access initiatives. Activity remains flat to declining — three awards in both 2022 and 2026, with only one award recorded in 2024. Three awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal recompete exposure.