Spring Hill College

Spring Hill College Finance & Accounting Division, a private tax-exempt educational institution headquartered in Mobile, Alabama, receives federal grant funding as a prime recipient to support student services, campus safety, STEM scholarship and career readiness programming, and facility construction, and occasionally provides facilities and logistics services to Army recruiting and training operations on a commercial basis. The college does not hold seats on federal contract vehicles and competes in the grant space only; its profile in the source data reflects 100 total federal awards with a combined potential value of $323 thousand, but $211.8 million in actual dollars obligated across the full award history, indicating substantial multi-year continuation funding obscured by potential-value metrics that understate the true scale of recurring grant work.

The college operates predominantly as a grant recipient (40 prime grants) rather than a federal contractor; 60% of its awards are sub-awards or flows-through from other entities, suggesting it serves as a sub-recipient on pass-through federal education grants. Federal Emergency Management Agency financial assistance awards dominate the award count at 57 of 80 named awards (80% coverage), though these are typically disaster or emergency relief grants to the institution rather than procurements for services rendered. The Department of the Army accounts for the largest commercial procurement footprint: four awards totaling $285 thousand combined potential value under Army Recruiting Command for facilities and logistical support, including a $74,624 firm fixed-price purchase order executed May 28, 2026, to provide meals, lodging, facilities, and student leaders for cadets and cadre attending the Mobile County Public School System STEM Academy on campus from May 28 through June 5, 2026. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration and the Department of Education also appear as recurring customers, primarily through grant mechanisms rather than contracts.

Spring Hill College's recurring grant work centers on Title IV student support services, campus safety, and STEM pathways. The college holds a $544,727 Project Grant from the Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education (CFDA 84.042, TRIO Student Support Services Program) effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2026, to deliver tutoring, academic advising, career counseling, financial aid assistance, and financial literacy workshops for disadvantaged students including low-income and first-generation undergraduates. It also operates continuation grants from the Department of Education's Office on Violence Against Women (October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2027) for campus-based coordinated responses to domestic and sexual violence, in collaboration with the Mobile Rape Crisis Center and Mobile County District Attorney's Office, with programmatic focus on healthy masculinity peer education and LGBTQ-inclusive prevention training. A congressionally directed spending award from the Healthcare Systems Bureau (executed September 30, 2023, with ultimate completion September 29, 2026) provided $32.952 million in federal funding plus $2.047 million for moveable equipment to construct and equip a 55,000-to-60,000 square foot Health and Science Innovation Center, expected to open for instruction in August 2026. The National Science Foundation awarded a six-year Project Grant (March 15, 2023, through February 28, 2029) supporting the Reflection, Engagement, Action, and Learning STEM (REAL-STEM) program, which funds scholarships for up to 10 low-income STEM majors annually (biology, mathematics, pre-engineering) and provides mentoring, research and internship opportunities, and annual career seminars. The National Endowment for the Humanities funded two iterations of "From Clotilda to Community: The History of Mobile, Alabama's Africatown," a Landmarks of American History and Culture workshop for K-12 educators (October 1, 2022, through September 30, 2024, and continued October 1, 2024, through October 31, 2027).

Spring Hill College holds a single named parent contract vehicle: Basic Ordering Agreement DAKF1978H0015 under Army Recruiting Command, against which four task orders have been placed. Two awards reach completion in the next twenty-four months and are therefore subject to recompete or continuation decisions. The college does not compete as a prime on federal contract vehicles and maintains no subcontractor relationships on commercial contracts; its role is educational institution and service provider to Army programs operating from its Mobile campus.