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University profileColorado Springs, COFiscal year 2025

How much federal money does Pikes Peak State College get?

Pikes Peak State College received $25.7 million in federal awards in FY2025, 457th of 998 institutions (top 46%).In fiscal year 2025, federal agencies obligated $25.7 million to Pikes Peak State College (Colorado Springs, CO), counting grants, contracts, loans and other awards.

FY2025 total
$26M
$25.7 million
Grants
$355K
1% of total
Contracts
$0
0% of total
Rank
457th
of 998 institutions

Ranked 457th of 998 by federal awards

FY2025 federal awards, institutions ranked either side of Pikes Peak State College.

University of Missouri System (Rolla) #454 · MO$26M
Chattahoochee Technical College #455 · GA$26M
Texas A & M University Kingsville #456 · TX$26M
Pikes Peak State College #457 · CO$26M
Stockton University #458 · NJ$26M
Louisiana State University (Shreveport) #459 · LA$26M
Indiana University of Pennsylvania #460 · PA$25M

What the money is

That is up 15.3% from FY2024 ($22.3 million). Compared with FY2019, the last year before pandemic relief, it is up 1256.4%. The largest share came as direct payments ($25.3 million, 98.6%). The Department of Education was the biggest funder ($25.6 million). Its largest programs were Federal Pell Grant Program ($24.2 million); Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants ($590,937); Federal Work-Study Program ($500,000). It ranks 457th of the 998 institutions on this site by FY2025 total.

What is counted: awards made directly to this institution, under the registered names PIKES PEAK STATE COLLEGE (UEI LGDEA7515H79). Money that reaches it as a subaward through another organization is not included. Separately incorporated foundations, hospitals and laboratories have their own records and are not added in. Grouping rules are explained in the methodology.

Federal awards by year

Pikes Peak State College: $26M in FY2025, up 1256% on FY2019

Federal award obligations by fiscal year and type, FY2018–FY2026, nominal dollars. FY26* is preliminary and still filling in.

  • Insurance and other
  • Loans (subsidy cost)
  • Direct payments
  • Grants
  • Contracts
$0$20M$40M$60MFY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26*$26M$0$20M$40M$60M'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25'26*$26M
View every year as a table
Fiscal yearContractsGrantsDirect paymentsLoansInsurance and otherTotal
FY2018$0$1.1M$0$0$0$1.1M
FY2019$0$1.9M$0$0$0$1.9M
FY2020$0$8.7M$0$0$0$8.7M
FY2021$0$47.1M$0$0$0$47.1M
FY2022$0-$15,753$8.8M$0$0$8.8M
FY2023$0$286,109$17.7M$0$0$18.0M
FY2024$0$989,342$21.3M$0$0$22.3M
FY2025$0$355,052$25.3M$0$0$25.7M
FY2026*$0$286,109$26.9M$0$0$27.2M

B = billion, M = million. Loans are the subsidy cost the government records. * FY2026 (October 2025 to September 2026) is preliminary: agencies keep reporting after the year ends, and Department of Defense contract data is published with a 90-day delay. Negative amounts are net de-obligations (money taken back from earlier awards).

Source: USAspending.gov (U.S. Treasury).

Who pays and for what, FY2025

The agencies that obligated the most to Pikes Peak State College, and the largest federal programs. Programs are federal Assistance Listings (formerly CFDA numbers); contracts have no listing number, so they do not appear there.

Top awarding agencies

AgencyFY2025Share
Department of Education$25.6 million99.7%
National Science Foundation$68,9430.3%
Department of Health and Human Services$00.0%

Top programs

ProgramFY2025Share
Federal Pell Grant Program Assistance Listing 84.063$24.2 million94.4%
Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants Assistance Listing 84.007$590,9372.3%
Federal Work-Study Program Assistance Listing 84.033$500,0001.9%
TRIO Student Support Services Assistance Listing 84.042$286,1091.1%
STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) Assistance Listing 47.076$68,9430.3%
Federal Direct Student Loans Assistance Listing 84.268$00.0%
Congressional Directives Assistance Listing 93.493$00.0%

Other institutions in Colorado

All institutions in Colorado

Federal money to Colorado

Questions and answers

How much federal funding does Pikes Peak State College receive?
$25.7 million in fiscal year 2025, according to USAspending.gov award data for its registered UEI(s).
Where does Pikes Peak State College's federal money come from?
The largest funder in FY2025 was the Department of Education ($25.6 million, 99.7%). By type, grants were $355,052 and contracts $0.
Did Pikes Peak State College's federal funding go up or down?
FY2025: $25.7 million; FY2024: $22.3 million (+15.3%).

Sources and notes

  1. USAspending.gov (U.S. Department of the Treasury), API endpoints spending_over_time and spending_by_category, filtered by recipient ID(s) f50d5b24-8a11-94f0-560b-e3bce8207445-C, fiscal years 2018–2026. Amounts are obligations in nominal dollars. Data retrieved 2026-10-04. Public domain.
  2. How the figures are built, and what they leave out: sources and methods.