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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

1Rebecca MontalvanWestat, Inc.$86,600,0001 gr2Julia Louise Moore VogelScripps Research Institute, The$32,252,6851 gr3Heinz Ernst MoserUniversity Of Texas Med Br Galveston$13,657,8411 gr4Matthew Morrow EngelhardDuke University$7,519,6651 gr5Cyrus WadiaActivate Global, Inc.$7,489,4931 gr6Aimee RoseActivate Global, Inc.$7,489,4931 gr

Emerging Leaders

6–10 yrs in

1John E WestUniversity Of Texas At Austin$95,166,6672 gr2Klaus RomeroCritical Path Institute$29,190,5961 gr3Jennifer K BalchUniversity Of Massachusetts Amherst$14,831,2101 gr4Rene S. KahnIcahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai$13,240,3381 gr5Alan James BridgeEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory$8,871,3761 gr6John Damon ChoderaSloan-Kettering Inst Can Research$8,477,2191 gr

All-Time

All years

1Daniel StanzioneArizona State University$96,966,6673 gr2John E WestUniversity Of Texas At Austin$95,166,6672 gr3Omar N GhattasCarnegie Mellon University$95,166,6672 gr4Kelly P GaitherPurdue University$94,000,0001 gr5Rebecca MontalvanWestat, Inc.$86,600,0001 gr6Eric Jeffrey TopolCleveland Clinic Lerner Col/Med-Cwru$50,366,1732 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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