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Connect: E-rate funding and districts served

Connect holds $3.8M in E-rate funding commitments across 1 state in FY2024-2026, serving 70 applicants in FY2026. Here is where, for what, and which of those contracts end soon.

Ohio · updated nightly from USAC open data
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9applicants

Contracts ending within 12 months

Connect's E-rate contracts that reach their end date in the next year, by applicant.

$106K of current service
70applicants

Incumbent today

Applicants Connect served in FY2026. Each one is a district to defend, or to take.

2% of its FY2026 requests had a single bidder
18applicants

Lost to a rival this year

Applicants that bought the same service from another provider in FY2026.

Most to Charter Communications Operating, LLC
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$1.3M
committed FY2026
70
applicants served
1
state
9
contracts ending, 12 months

Commitments by year

Funding yearCommitted
FY2026$1,284,793
FY2025$1,259,773
FY2024$1,268,381

By state and service

Ohio $3.8MData and internet $3.6MInternal connections $157KManaged Wi-Fi $104K

Largest applicants served

ApplicantStateServicesCommitted
East Cleveland City Sch DistOHData and internet$60,300
St Francis School-ClevelandOHData and internet, Internal connections$49,086
Garfield Heights City Sch DistOHData and internet$45,000
Bedford City School DistrictOHData and internet$44,993
South Euclid-Lyndhurst DistOHData and internet$40,000
Berea City Public SchoolsOHData and internet$36,000
Midview Local School DistrictOHData and internet$35,700
St Rocco SchoolOHData and internet, Internal connections$35,238
Wickliffe City School DistrictOHData and internet, Internal connections$35,056
St Agatha-St Aloysius SchoolOHData and internet$33,300
St Martin De Porres High SchoolOHData and internet$33,300
St Jude SchoolOHInternal connections$28,168
Lorain County Educational Service CenterOHData and internet, Internal connections$26,432
Cleveland Ctrl Cath High SchOHData and internet$23,400
Educational Service Center Of Cuyahoga CountyOHData and internet$23,400
Westlake City School DistrictOHData and internet$23,000
Metro CatholicOHData and internet$22,500
St Ignatius Elementary SchoolOHData and internet$22,500
Ramah Junior AcademyOHData and internet$22,500
Kenston Local School DistrictOHData and internet$22,389
Lakewood City School DistrictOHData and internet$22,200
Vermilion Local School DistOHData and internet$22,200
Archbishop Lyke-St HenryOHData and internet, Internal connections$21,455
St Mary Byzantine Elem SchoolOHData and internet$20,790
Mary Queen Of Peace SchoolOHData and internet$19,080

Contracts ending in the next 12 months

ApplicantStateServiceCommittedEnds
Westside Christian AcademyOHInternal connections$1,808Sep 30, 2027
Open Door Christian SchoolsOHInternal connections$3,390Sep 30, 2027
Canton Central Catholic High SchoolOHInternal connections$12,289Sep 30, 2027
St Jude SchoolOHInternal connections$28,168Sep 30, 2027
St Francis School-ClevelandOHInternal connections$25,686Sep 30, 2027
Archbishop Lyke-St HenryOHInternal connections$5,705Sep 30, 2027
Wickliffe City School DistrictOHInternal connections$14,256Sep 30, 2027
Lorain County Educational Service CenterOHInternal connections$2,402Sep 30, 2027
St Rocco SchoolOHInternal connections$11,838Sep 30, 2027

Who is winning at its districts

Providers that sold the same service in FY2026 to an applicant Connect served in FY2025.

ProviderApplicants won in FY2026
Charter Communications Operating, LLC11
Cogeco US (OH), LLC2
Cogeco US Enterprise, LLC2
Laketec Communications, Inc.2
AT&T Enterprises, LLC1
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Compiled from public records and refreshed nightly; last updated Oct 18, 2026. Figures are as USAC publishes them; committed amounts are funding commitments, not payments. Contract end dates on June 30 are left out because many applicants enter the funding-year end instead. Check the source before acting. See something wrong? Tell us and we will correct it.