Trinity University

Trinity University, a private non-profit research institution based in San Antonio, Texas, operates as a federal grant recipient and contract prime across research and professional military education programs. The institution competes full-and-open, with no SBA set-aside designations across its federal footprint.

Trinity's federal customer concentration centers on the Department of the Army, which accounts for the largest share of near-term dollar value. The Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) anchors Trinity's contract portfolio with an indefinite delivery contract valued at $4.49 million through June 2027 for delivery of the United States Army Captains Career Course at Trinity's facility in Olmos Park, Texas — a three-week professional military education program for reserve component captains that has been executed under multiple delivery orders since 2022. Beyond TRADOC, the Army Headquarters Office of the Secretary and the Army Installation Management Command Southwest Region collectively represent $7.6 million in combined potential value across 15 awards. The National Science Foundation dominates Trinity's grant footprint by award count (49 awards) but carries lower per-award magnitude than Army contracts. The top five funding agencies account for 59% of recent awards by count.

Trinity's research grant work spans peer-reviewed science across multiple disciplines. Recent representative awards include a $535 thousand National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS, CFDA 93.859) project grant on functionalized synthetic receptors for protein recognition (September 2025 through August 2028); a $191 thousand National Science Foundation Geosciences grant (CFDA 47.050) on Mesozoic North American Cordillera basin and melange belt analysis (September 2024 through August 2027); a $300 thousand NSF Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences award (CFDA 47.075) on extended family support and housing stability of at-risk youth (May 2022 through August 2025); and a $403 thousand NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences CAREER grant (CFDA 47.001) on fluorogenic radical polymerization chemistry (August 2021 through July 2026). Trinity also holds a $147 thousand NASA Science Mission Directorate grant (CFDA 43.001) for a balanced science program with completion targeted for January 2028. Additional grant work includes federally funded research in biomedical sciences (oxytocin and cocaine-preference behavior, neuroinflammation modeling, bacterial flagellar motor efficiency), education and workforce development (NSF McNair Scholars program, educational opportunity partnerships through the Office of Postsecondary Education), and humanities scholarship (National Endowment for the Humanities grant on medieval religious texts, awarded January 2025 for $396 thousand with a May 2027 completion). Trinity acts as a sub-recipient on federal grants anchored by institutions including Texas Biomedical Research Institute, St. Mary's University of San Antonio, the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, and New York University, typically supporting research execution and sample analysis functions.

Trinity holds positions on two Army basic ordering agreements (BOAs) — BOA DAKF1979H0098 with 23 task orders and BOA F3360080D0518 with 4 task orders — and carries four single-award indefinite delivery contracts with the Army for Captains Career Course delivery and related military training support. The vendor's federal portfolio breaks 94% prime (220 awards) and 6% sub (14 awards). Activity has grown modestly across the past five years, with nine awards in 2022 rising to 12 in 2024 before declining to three awards recorded to date in 2026. Eleven awards totaling $294 thousand in combined potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating near-term recompete exposure concentrated in Army training vehicle task orders.