University Of Richmond

University Of Richmond, a private non-profit research university headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, operates as a federal grant recipient and tuition-assistance provider in the education and basic research sectors, with 95% of recent awards held as prime recipient positions and no SBA set-aside participation. The university competes full-and-open across all federal funding sources and holds no set-aside designations.

The university's federal footprint divides sharply between two mission areas. Educational tuition reimbursement represents the largest single dollar concentration: the Naval Education and Training Command has obligated $1.1 million in potential value across five delivery orders under a $1 million Basic Ordering Agreement (N0024420G0004) running through September 2030, providing tuition and fee reimbursement for Navy personnel pursuing higher education. NASA's Shared Services Center awarded $248,049 for a research program on lunar, Martian, and Earth science applications with a completion date of May 10, 2025. Separately, basic research and applied research grants now dominate the award count. The National Science Foundation leads by award volume (42 awards) and funds multidisciplinary research spanning biological infrastructure, mathematical sciences, chemistry, and astronomy. Recent NSF Project Grants include a $847,878 CAREER grant (CFDA 47.074, through May 31, 2031) to develop bioinformatic pipelines for studying human genetic adaptations using ancient and modern genomic datasets; a $375,000 award (CFDA 47.049, through August 31, 2028) to develop computational models of polyradical electronic structure for organic magnetic materials; and a $589,939 grant (CFDA 47.049, through August 31, 2026) to create a 310 MHz absolute radio sky map. The Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service holds the second-largest grant portfolio (15 awards) focused on invasive pest management, including cooperative agreements to improve artificial diet-based rearing systems for Emerald Ash Borer control, develop molecular diagnostics for invasive pests, and optimize rearing methods for Box Tree Moth. The National Endowment for the Humanities funded a $491,863 three-year Center for Liberal Arts and AI (CLAAI) initiative (CFDA 45.161, through December 31, 2027) bringing together 16 small liberal arts colleges to study the social, cultural, and legal implications of artificial intelligence. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases awarded $416,165 for tsetse fly symbiont research, with a $32,454 sub-award to Yale University for biological assays and undergraduate mentoring. The university also subcontracted to Yale University on microbial genetics research related to Sodalis glossinidius chitin metabolism and to Stanford University on intergenerational health impacts analysis.

Customer concentration is distributed across 43 federal agencies; the top five agencies (NSF, Army, APHIS, Department of Energy, and the National Endowment for the Humanities) represent 54% of recent awards by count. Dollar concentration is concentrated in tuition reimbursement (Navy and NASA), which accounts for the full 100% of combined potential value across the portfolio's top-value customers. Activity has remained flat to declining (11 awards in 2022 down to 6 in 2026), with 11 awards reaching completion in the next twenty-four months, exposing the institution to recompete pressure on its core APHIS cooperative agreements and smaller NSF research grants. The university's obligated dollars ($54.8 million) vastly exceed its combined potential value ($2.1 million), indicating that most awards in the source data represent completed or heavily executed grants and contracts from prior years rather than current pipeline.