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Federal research funding — who funds it, who wins it, and how it's trended.

$10,434,293,179
Total funding
15,509
Grants
10
Funding agencies
2000–2026
Years

Funding over time

peak $2.5B · FY2000–26
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Who funds this — by agency

NIH$5,083,679,065 · 8249
NSF$4,807,635,955 · 6653
USDA$177,675,042 · 96
DOD$175,904,794 · 131
DOE$86,868,849 · 70
FDA$59,567,214 · 61
AHRQ$20,911,457 · 59
CDC$16,486,630 · 26
NASA$5,564,173 · 14
VA$0 · 150

artificial intelligence leaderboards

Investigator-initiatedAll funding

InvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Exposure= the full size of every grant they're on ($1M each).

Rising Stars

First grant in the last 5 yrs

1Junhao WenColumbia University Health Sciences$3,462,6151 gr2Torben SchiffnerVanderbilt University$3,383,6341 gr3Ganesh ChandWashington University$3,188,9011 gr4Oguz AkbilgicUniversity Of Washington$2,902,7922 gr5Bradley David AllenNorthwestern University At Chicago$2,765,3322 gr6Ouri CohenSloan-Kettering Inst Can Research$2,738,8941 gr

Emerging Leaders

6–10 yrs in

1Christoph I LeeUniversity Of Washington$5,797,4102 gr2Jeffrey H. PriceVala Sciences, Inc.$5,562,3262 gr3Juan Eugenio Iglesias GonzalezMassachusetts General Hospital$5,166,8102 gr4R N BryanUniversity Of Pennsylvania$4,847,3131 gr5Lili HeCincinnati Childrens Hosp Med Ctr$4,831,1153 gr6Gene WangPeople Power Company$4,747,9491 gr

All-Time

All years

1Cecilia Sungmin LeeUniversity Of Washington$14,888,4791 gr2Carlo J De LucaBoston University$10,985,8484 gr3Gregory George ZaharchukStanford University$8,871,0254 gr4H. Sebastian SeungAllen Institute$8,385,2043 gr5Dennis Paul WallHarvard Medical School$8,290,9274 gr6Stephen K BurleyHunter College$7,760,0001 gr

Institutions

Last 2 Years

Funding won recently

1Stanford University$55,020,39377 gr2Duke University$52,264,20745 gr3Massachusetts General Hospital$51,100,34037 gr4Washington University$48,330,62641 gr5University Of Southern California$39,890,23535 gr6University Of South Florida$39,130,5996 gr

Last 10 Years

Funding over the decade

1University Of Texas At Austin$458,523,39291 gr2Stanford University$173,103,987157 gr3University Of Washington$163,512,179126 gr4Carnegie Mellon University$157,779,045114 gr5Johns Hopkins University$140,550,185118 gr6University Of Florida$131,108,033153 gr

All-Time

Cumulative funding

1University Of Texas At Austin$460,690,196101 gr2Stanford University$193,799,723172 gr3University Of Washington$179,906,106154 gr4Carnegie Mellon University$168,065,976140 gr5Johns Hopkins University$144,956,078125 gr6Duke University$137,799,110117 gr
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