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Federal funding for universities in Virginia 26 universities and colleges in Virginia received $1.9 billion in federal awards in FY2025. Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia received the most ($397.8 million).
The largest recipients in Virginia
Federal awards, FY2025.
Source: USAspending.gov, awards to each institution's registered UEIs.
All 26 institutions 26 institutions
# Institution Location FY2025 total Grants 1 Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA $397.8M $367.0M 2 Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Blacksburg, VA $235.0M $155.7M 3 Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA $220.7M $154.0M 4 Liberty University Lynchburg, VA $185.1M $124,426 5 George Mason University Fairfax, VA $152.7M $66.8M 6 Strayer University, LLC Herndon, VA $149.8M $0 7 Virginia Community College System Office (Annandale) Annandale, VA $79.1M $2.1M 8 Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA $65.7M $17.1M 9 Virginia State University Petersburg, VA $56.3M $33.4M 10 Norfolk State University Norfolk, VA $49.1M $22.2M 11 Tidewater Community College Norfolk, VA $33.2M $1.5M 12 James Madison University Harrisonburg, VA $29.7M $7.8M 13 Hampton University Hampton, VA $29.4M $18.9M 14 J Sargeant Reynolds Community College Goochland, VA $22.6M $4.7M 15 College of William and Mary Williamsburg, VA $20.8M $13.2M 16 Regent University Virginia Beach, VA $20.7M $980,000 17 Radford University Radford, VA $17.6M $0 18 Virginia Union University Richmond, VA $16.5M $9.1M 19 Germanna Community College Locust Grove, VA $14.1M $249,993 20 Virginia Western Community College Roanoke, VA $11.7M $348,143 21 Southwest Virginia Community College Cedar Bluff, VA $11.0M $2.1M 22 Virginia Peninsula Community College Hampton, VA $10.4M $286,109 23 Brightpoint Community College Chester, VA $10.0M $0 24 Virginia Institute of Marine Science Gloucester Point, VA $10.0M $10.0M 25 Virginia Community College System Office (Lynchburg) Lynchburg, VA $9.4M $1.8M 26 Virginia Community College System (North Chesterfield) North Chesterfield, VA $269,356 $0
All federal money to Virginia
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 .