How Arizona State University received $487 million in COVID disaster relief funds
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Since the passage of the CARES Act in 2020, universities have received massive cash inflows in the form of COVID-related disaster spending. Arizona State University has received over $487 million of those funds through various aid programs authorized by multiple pieces of legislation.
Universities recieved COVID disaster relief funds through several major pools of money:
- The Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF): a $76 billion Department of Education grant program established by the CARES Act as part of the Education Stablization Fund. The CARES Act distributed $14 billion to higher education institutions through the program. The Consolidated Approriations Act replenished the fund and distributed another $22 billion. The American Rescue Plan Act distributed another $40 billion. By law, universities were required to allocate roughly half of the funds to direct non-taxable student aid/payments. Arizona State University recieved $373,862,751 from this program.
- The Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF): a $150 billion Department of the Treasury grant program established by the CARES Act. The fund provided portions of this fund to state and local governments to allocate as they saw fit under loose restrictions. Much of this funding was directed to universities, and Arizona State University received a $51,404,256 CRF grant from the Governor of Arizona.
- The State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (SLFRF): a $350 billion version of the Coronavirus Relief Fund established by the American Rescue Plan Act. Like the CRF, many of these funds were also directed to universities by state and local governments. As of 2023, Arizona State University has received $9,328,399 from this program.
- The Shuttered Venue Operators Grant Program (SVOG): a $16 billion Small Business Administration program established by the CARES Act and replenished/expanded by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 and the American Rescue Plan Act to issue payments to venue operators. Arizona State University received $10,000,000 from this program, the maximum allowable grant amount.
The remainder of Arizona State University's COVID disaster relief program came from various agencies and authorizations in the big three COVID spending bills. As of February 2023, ASU's endowment was valued at $1.39 billion.
Breakdown of all funding and sources:
Department Of Education grant
Amount: $201,999,028
Purpose: Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund institutional portion
Funding legislation: CARES Act, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, American Rescue Plan Act
Department Of Education grant
Amount: $165,813,874
Purpose: Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund
Funding legislation: CARES Act, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, American Rescue Plan Act
Coronavirus Relief Fund grant
Amount: $51,404,256
Purpose: Provides funding to state universities to mitigate the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Funding legislation: CARES Act, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, American Rescue Plan Act
Small Business Administration grant
Amount: $10,000,000
Purpose: Shuttered Venue Operators grants
Funding legislation: CARES Act, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act
State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund grant (SLFRF)
Amount: $8,815,758
Purpose: Support COVID-19 Testing
Funding legislation: American Rescue Plan Act
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grant
Amount: $4,074,736
Purpose: Community health workers for COVID-19 response and resiliency: national evaluation team
Funding legislation: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021
National Institutes of Health grant
Amount: $3,887,598
Purpose: Back to ECE safely with sage: reducing COVID-19 transmission in hispanic and low-income preschoolers
Funding legislation: American Rescue Plan Act
Department Of Education grant
Amount: $3,668,188
Purpose: Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund - Minority Serving Institutions - ASU downtown
Funding legislation: CARES Act, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, American Rescue Plan Act
Department of the Army grant
Amount: $3,510,000
Purpose: Quantum biology studied by TEM
Funding legislation: CARES Act
National Institutes of Health grant
Amount: $3,243,292
Purpose: Leveraging bio-cultural mechanisms to maximize the impact of multi-level preventable disease interventions with southwest populations
Funding legislation: American Rescue Plan Act
Department of the Army grant
Amount: $3,060,000
Purpose: Nanoscale study of quantum criticality in single protein molecules
Funding legislation: CARES Act
Health Resources and Services Administration grant
Amount: $2,999,934
Purpose: Community health worker training program - Arizona state University (ASU) is proposing to launch a new, high-impact training program to recruit, educate, and match 200 community health workers (CHWs) to local internships and apprenticeships to prepare for CHW certification. ASU will partner with community organizations serving medically underserved populations, including hispanic, American Indian, African American, and rural communities throughout Arizona.
Funding legislation: American Rescue Plan Act
Department of the Air Force grant
Amount: $2,363,408
Purpose: This cooperative agreement shall be performed in accordance with statement of work, entitled 'domain-focused advanced software-reconfigurable heterog…'
Funding legislation: CARES Act
National Science Foundation grant
Amount: $2,269,502
Purpose: Collaborative research: using communities of practice to transform STEM education for Latinx students at two-year hispanic serving institutions.
Funding legislation: American Rescue Plan Act
Health Resources and Services Administration grant
Amount: $1,926,213
Purpose: Behavioral health workforce education and training program.
Funding legislation: American Rescue Plan Act
Department Of Education grant
Amount: $1,793,268
Purpose: Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund minority serving institutions - ASU West
Funding legislation: CARES Act, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, American Rescue Plan Act
National Institutes of Health grant
Amount: $1,492,844
Purpose: Bioinformatics framework for wastewater-based surveillance of infectious diseases.
Funding legislation: CARES Act, American Rescue Plan Act
National Institutes of Health grant
Amount: $1,305,515
Purpose: Wastewater analysis of SARS-COV-2 in tribal communities
Funding legislation: American Rescue Plan Act
Department of the Army grant
Amount: $1,250,000
Purpose: New CA (Research)
Funding legislation: CARES Act
Department of the Air Force contract
Amount: $1,238,935
Purpose: CHECRS: Cognitive Human Enhancements for Cyber Reasoning Systems
Funding legislation: CARES Act
National Institutes of Health grant
Amount: $1,173,739
Purpose: Model-guided design of RNA stabilizing elements for improved coronavirus diagnostics
Funding legislation: CARES Act
Economic Development Administration grant
Amount: $999,895
Purpose: This EDA investment supports the Arizona Board Of Regents - Arizona state University with implementing community redevelopment through reuse planning of coal facilities in tempe, Arizona. The project will facilitate an inventory of current coal facilities in northern Arizona, and the creation of an assessment report outlining reuse and redevelopment options for former coal plants.
Funding legislation: American Rescue Plan Act
Department of the Navy contract
Amount: $985,000
Purpose: Research: DARPA Assured Micropatching (AMP). This effort is in support of Technical Area 1: goal-driven decompilation (TA1)
Funding legislation: CARES Act
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention contract
Amount: $749,526
Purpose: FY 21 BAA Topic 8 - ASU
Funding legislation: American Rescue Plan Act
Department Of Education grant
Amount: $588,393
Purpose: Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund - strengthening institutions program - ASU Skysong
Funding legislation: CARES Act, American Rescue Plan Act
Department of the Army grant
Amount: $522,000
Purpose: Human-autonomy teaming: capturing team effectiveness factors to support feedback and interventions
Funding legislation: CARES Act
Corporation for National and Community Service grant
Amount: $507,203
Purpose: Legacy corps for veteran and military families (LCVMF) at Arizona State University proposes to have 512 quarter-time Americorps members who will provide caregiver support services to veteran and military families at 13 subaward sites in six (6) states.
Funding legislation: American Rescue Plan Act
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grant
Amount: $500,000
Purpose: Platform to assess influenza and COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness in underserved Arizona populations
Funding legislation: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021
National Science Foundation grant
Amount: $500,000
Purpose: CC* integration-large: (blue) software-defined cyberinfrastructure to enable data-driven smart campus applications
Funding legislation: American Rescue Plan Act
Federal Emergency Management Agency grant
Amount: $433,141
Purpose: Financial assistance for countering violent extremism
Funding legislation: CARES Act
State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund grant (SLFRF)
Amount: $425,231
Purpose: In the US, Indigenous women and girls go missing at a rate of 10 times the national average. Arizona has the 3rd highest rate of MMIP, which underscores the vital importance of addressing this crisis at the state-level. The sudden removal of Indigenous peoples has devastating and long-term ripple effects for families and entire communities.
Funding legislation: American Rescue Plan Act
National Science Foundation grant
Amount: $424,999
Purpose: NNA research: collaborative research: frozen commons: change, resilience and sustainability in the arctic
Funding legislation: American Rescue Plan Act
National Science Foundation grant
Amount: $399,997
Purpose: CC* legislationCompute: the Arizona Federated Open Research Computing Enclave (AFORCE), an advanced computing platform for science, engineering, and health
Funding : American Rescue Plan Act
National Science Foundation grant
Amount: $390,000
Purpose: Social, ecological, and technological infrastructure systems for urban resilience
Funding legislation: American Rescue Plan Act
National Science Foundation grant
Amount: $388,799
Purpose: REU site: quantitative research in the life and social sciences: an interdisciplinary and intergenerational REU experience.
Funding legislation: American Rescue Plan Act
National Science Foundation grant
Amount: $359,841
Purpose: MCA: career advancement in polar cyberinfrastructure: permafrost feature mapping and change detection using geospatial artificial intelligence and remote sensing
Funding legislation: American Rescue Plan Act
National Science Foundation grant
Amount: $299,934
Purpose: Toward more inclusive undergraduate research experiences for low socioeconomic students. This project addresses the need to increase the success of students of low socio-economic status (SES) who participate in undergraduate research experiences in life sciences.
Funding legislation: American Rescue Plan Act
National Science Foundation grant
Amount: $299,770
Purpose: Career: fundamentals and synthesis of new compositions and shapes/microstructures of 3D and 2D carbides, nitrides and carbonitrides
Funding legislation: American Rescue Plan Act
Department of the Army grant
Amount: $280,000
Purpose: New start grant to Arizona State University
Funding legislation: CARES Act
National Science Foundation grant
Amount: $261,641
Purpose: Career: molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying circuit-host interactions
Funding legislation: American Rescue Plan Act
National Science Foundation grant
Amount: $199,999
Purpose: Coronavirus viroporin xfel structural studies
Funding legislation: CARES Act
National Science Foundation grant
Amount: $199,993
Purpose: Instrumentation: time-resolved studies of the SARS-COV-2 endonuclease NP15
Funding legislation: CARES Act
National Science Foundation grant
Amount: $198,711
Purpose: Active tracking of disease spread in COVID19 via graph predictive analytics
Funding legislation: CARES Act
National Science Foundation grant
Amount: $197,981
Purpose: Rapid: COVID-19's impact on the urban environment, behavior, and wellbeing
Funding legislation: CARES Act
National Science Foundation grant
Amount: $150,000
Purpose: Disinfection and reuse of health-care worker facial masks to prevent infection coronavirus disease
Funding legislation: CARES Act
National Science Foundation grant
Amount: $94,997
Purpose: Collaborative research: An edge-based approach to robust multi-robot systems in dynamic environments
Funding legislation: American Rescue Plan Act
Department of the Army grant
Amount: $89,494
Purpose: Internet of battlefield things: electric and magnetic field sensing
Funding legislation: CARES Act
State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund grant (SLFRF)
Amount: $87,410
Purpose: The AZOn Track Summer Camp program aims to combat the learning loss for Arizona students as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure that these students are prepared to be successful upon return to the 2022/20223 academic school year. It does so by offering funding for various organizations to offer summer camps throughout the Summer of 2022.
Funding legislation: American Rescue Plan Act
National Science Foundation grant
Amount: $79,864
Purpose: Collaborative research: spatial modeling of immune response to multifocal SARS-COV-2 viral lung infection
Funding legislation: CARES Act
National Institutes of Health grant
Amount: $74,688
Purpose: Bioinformatics framework for wastewater-based surveillance of infectious diseases
Funding legislation: CARES Act
National Science Foundation grant
Amount: $67,243
Purpose: The impact of country of origin on group consciousness in political behavior research.
Funding legislation: American Rescue Plan Act
National Science Foundation grant
Amount: $58,125
Purpose: Coping with COVID-19: emotion regulation strategy implications for behavior, social outcomes, and well-being
Funding legislation: CARES Act
National Science Foundation grant
Amount: $56,334
Purpose: Collaborative research: investigating attitudinal and behavioral changes in US households before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic
Funding legislation: CARES Act
National Science Foundation grant
Amount: $46,649
Purpose: Collaborative Research: leveraging new data sources to analyze the risk of COVID-19 in crowded locations
Funding legislation: CARES Act
National Science Foundation grant
Amount: $44,838
Purpose: Location tracking, contact tracing and geospatial privacy in COVID-19
Funding legislation: CARES Act
National Science Foundation grant
Amount: $29,400
Purpose: Scaling up commons dilemma experiments for research and education
Funding legislation: American Rescue Plan Act
National Science Foundation grant
Amount: $25,191
Purpose: Doctoral dissertation improvement award: a microevolutionary analysis of population change
Funding legislation: American Rescue Plan Act