Morehouse College Inc.

Morehouse College Inc., a historically Black private liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia, receives federal funding primarily as a prime recipient of educational grants and as a contractor providing tuition and fees under military officer training programs, competing without set-asides across 313 awards spanning education, STEM research, and workforce development.

Morehouse is a tax-exempt, minority-owned, black American-owned private educational institution. The college's federal footprint is dominated by grant work — 91% of recent awards are prime awards, with 284 prime contracts and grants against 29 sub-awards. The college does not hold parent contract vehicles; instead, it delivers tuition and educational services under delivery orders and basic ordering agreements issued by military departments and receives project grants and cooperative agreements from civilian agencies funding research and student support. The vendor competes in full-and-open categories without SBA set-aside designation.

The top five funding agencies by award count account for 51% of recent awards. The Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education leads with 56 awards funding Upward Bound, TRIO Student Support Services, Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate, HBCU institutional development, and STEM pipeline programs; the National Science Foundation follows with 46 awards supporting quantum information science, computer science education, data science curriculum development, and broadening participation in computing; the Department of the Army accounts for 29 awards; and the Department of the Navy dominates by dollar value with 22 awards (15 under Naval Education and Training Command IDC N0014006G0031 plus 7 under Naval Personnel Basic Ordering Agreement N0018918GZ030) totaling $5.8 million combined potential value for NROTC midshipmen tuition covering spring, summer, and fall terms at the college.

Representative prime contract work includes Naval NROTC tuition delivery orders: $487,986 for fall 2025 midshipmen tuition (October 3, 2025, Bureau of Naval Personnel), $461,155 for spring 2025 (February 28, 2025), and $444,000 for spring 2026 (February 27, 2026). Representative grant work spans NSF funding for an AI-augmented research case simulation platform for high school computational life sciences (July 15, 2026, NSF Division of Human Resource Development); a $1.63 million Department of Education HBCU Title III institutional development award (October 1, 2025, Office of Postsecondary Education, CFDA 84.031); a $349,994 NSF research award studying persistence in computer science education across five partner HBCUs including Spelman, Clark Atlanta, Morgan State, and Winston-Salem State (August 1, 2025, NSF Division of Human Resource Development, CFDA 47.076); a $285,290 NSF collaborative award with Georgia Tech to expand computer science and engineering research capacity (October 1, 2023, NSF Division of Information and Intelligent Systems); and a $200,000 NSF planning grant for hydrogels and additive manufacturing chemistry partnered with Duke University's MONET center (November 15, 2023, NSF Division of Chemistry, CFDA 47.049). The college also operates five Upward Bound projects (Atlanta Metro, Phoenix/Mays, Shiloh, Meriwether/Talbot, Cobb County, and Greater Orlando), a John R. Lewis Undergraduate Public Health Scholars program through CDC, and the Andrew Young Center's higher education in prisons initiative funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance.

Activity declined from 19 awards in 2022 to 10 in 2023, recovered to 13 in 2024 and 18 in 2025, and shows only 6 awards recorded in 2026 year-to-date (through August 17). Fifteen awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing recompete exposure for the college's grant portfolio. Morehouse also subcontracts to QED Systems, Inc. on Department of Labor welding training and certification work under the Multi-Apprenticeship Program (five sub-awards from March 2025 through April 2026) and receives sub-awards on NSF and other agency grants as a partner institution, including work under prime grants led by William Marsh Rice University (SafeInsights national research infrastructure), University of Texas at Austin (Leadership Class Computing Facility construction), Georgia Tech Research Corporation (I Corps South Hub, MBDA Innovation Hub, LEADS infrastructure), Duke University (hydrogels research), and Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (genomics and cancer health equity).

The college's capacity and mission align with federal investments in STEM workforce development, broadening participation in computing and engineering among underrepresented groups, historically Black college institutional strengthening, and military officer training pipeline support. Place of performance is Atlanta, Georgia for all tuition and institutional grant work; research partnerships involve collaborations with Georgia Tech, Duke, UCLA, Stanford, and other research universities.