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Federal funding for universities in Kentucky 22 universities and colleges in Kentucky received $884.0 million in federal awards in FY2025. University of Kentucky Research Foundation received the most ($263.5 million).
The largest recipients in Kentucky
Federal awards, FY2025.
Source: USAspending.gov, awards to each institution's registered UEIs.
All 22 institutions 22 institutions
# Institution Location FY2025 total Grants 1 University of Kentucky Research Foundation Lexington, KY $263.5M $257.3M 2 University of Louisville Louisville, KY $142.1M $93.8M 3 University of Kentucky Lexington, KY $87.5M $21.4M 4 University of the Cumberlands Williamsburg, KY $42.1M $0 5 Eastern Kentucky University Richmond, KY $41.9M $2.6M 6 Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, KY $39.7M $8.2M 7 Kentucky State University Frankfort, KY $31.9M $24.4M 8 Bluegrass Community & Technical College Lexington, KY $27.1M $1.6M 9 Kentucky Community & Tech College System (Louisville) Louisville, KY $26.3M $272,364 10 Morehead State University Morehead, KY $23.3M $8.4M 11 Northern Kentucky University Newport, KY $22.7M $2.4M 12 Kentucky Community and Technical College System (Somerset) Somerset, KY $21.5M $1.4M 13 Murray State University Murray, KY $21.2M $3.3M 14 Kentucky Community & Tech College System (Elizabethtown) Elizabethtown, KY $18.1M $2.2M 15 Maysville Community and Technical College Maysville, KY $11.7M $905,201 16 West Kentucky Community & Technical College Paducah, KY $11.3M $603,963 17 Campbellsville University Campbellsville, KY $9.9M $1.1M 18 Kentucky Community & Technical College System (Owensboro) Owensboro, KY $9.6M $272,364 19 Kentucky Community and Technical College System (Cumberland) Cumberland, KY $9.2M $625,197 20 Kentucky Community and Technical College System (Hazard) Hazard, KY $8.0M $2.1M 21 Kentucky Community and Technical College System (Prestonsburg) Prestonsburg, KY $7.7M $0 22 University of Pikeville Pikeville, KY $7.6M $1.9M
All federal money to Kentucky
Sources and notes USAspending.gov (U.S. Department of the Treasury), API endpoints spending_over_time and spending_by_category, filtered by recipient, fiscal years 2018–2026. Amounts are obligations in nominal dollars. Data retrieved 2026-10-04. Public domain.How the figures are built, and what they leave out: sources and methods .