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University profileTuscaloosa, ALFiscal year 2025

How much federal money does Shelton State Community College get?

Shelton State Community College received $15.3 million in federal awards in FY2025, 675th of 998 institutions.In fiscal year 2025, federal agencies obligated $15.3 million to Shelton State Community College (Tuscaloosa, AL), counting grants, contracts, loans and other awards.

FY2025 total
$15M
$15.3 million
Grants
$5.3M
35% of total
Contracts
$0
0% of total
Rank
675th
of 998 institutions

Ranked 675th of 998 by federal awards

FY2025 federal awards, institutions ranked either side of Shelton State Community College.

Touro University #672 · NY$15M
Florida Memorial University #673 · FL$15M
Everglades College #674 · FL$15M
Shelton State Community College #675 · AL$15M
Jacksonville University #676 · FL$15M
Howard Community College #677 · MD$15M
Saint Xavier University #678 · IL$15M

What the money is

That is up 16.8% from FY2024 ($13.1 million). Compared with FY2019, the last year before pandemic relief, it is up 751.8%. The largest share came as direct payments ($10.0 million, 65.3%). The Department of Education was the biggest funder ($15.3 million). Its largest programs were Federal Pell Grant Program ($9.6 million); Higher Education Institutional Aid ($5.3 million); Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants ($182,794). It ranks 675th of the 998 institutions on this site by FY2025 total.

What is counted: awards made directly to this institution, under the registered names SHELTON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE (UEI K9YRPQSCRHG6). 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

Shelton State Community College: $15M in FY2025, up 752% 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*$15M$0$20M$40M$60M'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25'26*$15M
View every year as a table
Fiscal yearContractsGrantsDirect paymentsLoansInsurance and otherTotal
FY2018$0$1.9M$0$0$0$1.9M
FY2019$0$1.8M$0$0$0$1.8M
FY2020$0$9.8M$0$0$0$9.8M
FY2021$0$47.9M$0$0$0$47.9M
FY2022$0$1.6M$4.9M$0$0$6.5M
FY2023$0$3.2M$8.5M$0$0$11.6M
FY2024$0$4.2M$8.9M$0$0$13.1M
FY2025$0$5.3M$10.0M$0$0$15.3M
FY2026*$0$3.2M$10.1M$0$0$13.2M

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 Shelton State Community 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$15.3 million100.0%

Top programs

ProgramFY2025Share
Federal Pell Grant Program Assistance Listing 84.063$9.6 million63.2%
Higher Education Institutional Aid Assistance Listing 84.031$5.3 million34.7%
Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants Assistance Listing 84.007$182,7941.2%
Federal Work-Study Program Assistance Listing 84.033$139,3890.9%

Other institutions in Alabama

All institutions in Alabama

Federal money to Alabama

Questions and answers

How much federal funding does Shelton State Community College receive?
$15.3 million in fiscal year 2025, according to USAspending.gov award data for its registered UEI(s).
Where does Shelton State Community College's federal money come from?
The largest funder in FY2025 was the Department of Education ($15.3 million, 100.0%). By type, grants were $5.3 million and contracts $0.
Did Shelton State Community College's federal funding go up or down?
FY2025: $15.3 million; FY2024: $13.1 million (+16.8%).

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) 5100a68d-269c-170a-3a33-eaf65c0e1e34-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.