Universidad Del Sagrado Corazon, Inc.

Universidad Del Sagrado Corazon, Inc. Finance Office Division (doing business as University Of The Sacred Heart) is a Hispanic-serving, minority-owned private nonprofit university based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, that operates exclusively as a federal grant recipient — the institution holds no federal contracts and participates in federal procurement only through grant awards from civilian research and education agencies.

The university's federal footprint centers on Department of Education grants funding student support services, institutional capacity building, and workforce development. The Office of Postsecondary Education accounts for 27 of the institution's 83 total awards, anchoring the portfolio with recurring TRIO Student Support Services grants (including separate awards for disabled students and regular student populations), the Upward Bound Project, and institutional aid programs such as "Sagrado's Graduate Paths: Promoting Advancement Through Higher Studies in Puerto Rico" ($617,369, October 2024 through September 2025). The institution also holds an active Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant ($498,902, CFDA 45.313, September 2026 through August 2028) from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to establish embedded librarianship frameworks at its Madre Mara Teresa Guevara Library, pairing librarians with faculty liaisons to reposition library services toward active research support. The Federal Emergency Management Agency Headquarters and the Small Business Administration together account for 13 awards; FEMA funding supports community resilience planning and facility hardening, while SBA awards fund entrepreneurship education and capital-readiness programming through the Minority Business Development Agency.

The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded five grants supporting arts production, residency programs, and theater development; the National Endowment for the Humanities has funded humanistic competency development in Hispanic students. Complementing education and arts grants, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration awarded a broadband infrastructure and digital skills project ($602,750 through January 2026) to install fiber-optic cabling across campus and provide technology training to students, staff, and surrounding anchor communities in the Santurce neighborhood. The National Science Foundation supported Universidad Del Sagrado Corazon as a collaborating partner in the Arecibo C3 (Center for Culturally Relevant and Inclusive Science Education, Computational Skills, and Community Engagement) cooperative agreement with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, and the University of Maryland Baltimore County, establishing STEM education and research infrastructure at the Arecibo Observatory site.

Activity has moderated — nine awards in 2023 declining to three in 2025 and three in 2026 — with only three awards facing ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months. The institution acts as prime recipient in 87% of its awards and as sub-recipient in 13%, including sub-awards routed through the Governor's Authorized Representative for disaster recovery and workforce projects, and a sub-award from the Hispanic Access Foundation for the Sagrado Bosque Urbano urban forest management initiative. The combined obligated dollars across all awards total $118.9 million against a reported combined potential value of $25 thousand — a data artifact reflecting the source's treatment of large, multi-year grants and disaster-recovery sub-awards with high realized spend relative to initial award ceiling.