Saint Louis University

Saint Louis University Student Financial Services Division, operating as Museum Cntmprary Religious Art, is a division of the private Catholic research university in St. Louis, Missouri. It serves as a subrecipient on federal grant programs and holds two small prime contracts for tuition and fees services with the Department of the Navy. The entity is a tax-exempt non-profit educational institution with no SBA set-aside designations and operates almost entirely as a grant subrecipient (70% of recent awards by count) rather than as a prime contractor.

The division's federal footprint is dominated by health research and training grants flowing through Washington University as prime recipient. Saint Louis University holds sub-awards across the National Institutes of Health National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (30 awards), the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (9 awards), and the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (5 awards). These sub-awards fund clinical trial recruitment, vaccine development infrastructure, geospatial health analytics, child maltreatment policy research training, Alzheimer's disease and dementia research participant recruitment, and specialized laboratory work in pediatric sickle cell disease, cardiovascular health, and muscle regeneration. The division also performs work as a sub-recipient under grants from New Mexico State University (distributed trust and reputation framework research) and receives direct federal funding for tuition and fees from the Department of the Navy. A single $66,803 purchase order from the U.S. Attorney's Offices for expert witness services (awarded April 2023, completed December 2024) represents the only direct non-Navy prime contract work in the source data.

The Department of the Navy dominates the division's dollar value. A single-award Basic Ordering Agreement with the Naval Education and Training Command established in April 2022 carries a $1 million ceiling through April 2032 for tuition and fees services. A second Basic Ordering Agreement with the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, awarded August 2025 and running through July 2035, provides an additional indefinite delivery vehicle for educational services. Recent task orders against these vehicles include a $74,062 delivery order (February 2026), a $106,833 order (August 2025), and a $72,482 order (August 2025), all for tuition and fees supporting naval personnel education at Saint Louis University's campus in St. Louis, Missouri.

Activity has declined sharply in recent years. The division received 36 awards in 2022, 18 in 2023, 5 in 2024, 4 in 2025, and 1 in 2026. The source dataset spans 2003 through February 2026 with combined potential value of $2.5 million across 83 total awards (prime and sub combined); however, obligated dollars total $4.6 million, reflecting federal payments exceeding listed ceiling values on smaller awards. The division operates as a subcontractor to Washington University on the vast majority of its grant work and does not hold positions on government-wide IDIQs or GWACs. Service Contract Inventory data shows minimal federal services activity: 0.1 FTEs reported in FY2022 and 0.5 FTEs in FY2024, both as named subcontractor on SCI-reportable prime contracts, suggesting the division's federal work consists primarily of educational services, grant administration, and subject recruitment rather than on-staff federal service delivery.