Loyola University Of Chicago

Loyola University of Chicago, doing business as Lake Shore Campus, is a private non-profit Jesuit Catholic university that acts as a prime recipient on federal grants and holds prime contracts with the Department of the Navy and Department of Veterans Affairs, with no federal contracting set-asides. The institution operates across educational services, medical services delivery, and research funding across 97 federal agencies, with 94% of its recent awards as prime recipient or contractor.

Loyola's federal footprint centers on three concrete capability streams. First, the university delivers tuition and fees for active-duty Navy personnel pursuing education, evidenced by 80 awards to the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery worth $4.6 million in combined potential value—primarily small delivery orders for Navy personnel educational support. Second, Loyola operates medical services including live donor kidney transplant and nephrology care under indefinite delivery contracts with the Department of Veterans Affairs, specifically Veterans Integrated Service Network 12, which anchors the largest dollar concentration: 15 awards carrying $36.6 million in combined potential value across two parent vehicles (VA69DP0656 and related IDCs). Third, the university holds a substantial federal research grant portfolio spanning the National Science Foundation (66 awards), the National Institutes of Health (12 awards), the National Endowment for the Humanities, and other civilian agencies, funding basic research in biochemistry, ecology, computational modeling, and marine biology alongside STEM education and workforce development initiatives. Representative research grants include a $1.007 million NIGMS award for protein-based GABA sensor development for neurotransmitter research, a $775 thousand NSF CAREER award studying bacterial evolution under elemental limitation, and a $545 thousand NICHD grant investigating molecular mechanisms of male fertility via spermatogenesis research.

Loyola's customer concentration is dominated by the VA ($36.6 million) and Navy ($4.6 million), which together account for the largest dollar share and the majority of awards by count (95 of the top-five customers' 196 awards). The National Science Foundation, while carrying many awards in count terms (66), contributes lower per-award values reflecting typical NSF grant sizing. The IRS Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic program contributes 23 awards supporting Loyola's law school clinic operations providing tax representation to low-income taxpayers. The source identifies 19 awards reaching completion in the next twenty-four months with combined potential value of $491 thousand, representing modest recompete exposure.

Loyola places work under two primary VA indefinite delivery contracts (VA69DP0656 with $27.6 million across 9 task orders, and V69DP5004 with $1.7 million across 4 task orders) and a large Navy IDC (N0014098G2473) carrying 87 tuition-and-fees delivery orders totaling $4.7 million. The university also holds smaller parent vehicles focused on medical service delivery and research grant funding. Across federal grant work, Loyola acts as a prime recipient with sub-award relationships to peer universities including Northwestern University, Thomas Jefferson University, Baylor College of Medicine, DePaul University, Tufts University, and others on collaborative research initiatives in biomedical sciences, geosciences, and education research.

Activity has remained relatively steady across the past five years—22 awards in 2022, 18 in 2023, 23 in 2024, and 19 in 2025—with 6 awards recorded in the first half of 2026. The combined obligated dollars ($213.5 million) exceed the combined potential value ($62.3 million) by a factor of 3.43, reflecting invoiced or obligated work on multi-year awards. Loyola competes on a full-and-open basis with no set-aside designations across its prime contract and grant portfolio. The university's federal work is grounded in its core identity as a Jesuit Catholic educational institution; the award history reflects both traditional university revenue services (tuition payment, medical care delivery) and research mission execution spanning STEM education, basic science, and community-focused initiatives such as NOAA-funded marine debris removal and NSF-supported teacher preparation programs.