FY 2021 By the Numbers: Extramural Grant Investments in Research

Building on my 2021 reflections from January, we are presenting fiscal year (FY) 2021 extramural investments in research. The grant funding and success rate data presented here are in line with other related “By The Numbers” posts focusing on NIH’s annual enacted appropriations. Historical data may be found in the NIH Data Book, with FY 2021 data to be published soon. Spending related to special appropriations for coronavirus may be found using RePORTER’s advanced search capabilities. In FY2021 NIH spent $32.3 billion of its total $42.9 billion appropriation for competing and noncompeting awards . This is a 5.1% increase (or $1.5 billion) in spending over the previous year. Note, these data do include monies for grants and other Transaction awards, but not research and development contracts. Those funds supported 625 additional new and renewed extramural grants in FY 2021, for a total of 56,794 competing and non-competing awards (1.1% more than FY 2020). NIH issued awards to 2,696 academic universities, hospitals, small businesses, and other organizations throughout the U.S. and internationally. Table 1 – All Extramural Research (competing and non-competing, excluding contracts) 2020 2021 2021 % Change from 2020 Number of Awards 56,169 56,794 1.10% Total Amount (in billions) $30.76 $32.32 5.10% Our success rate for new research project grants (RPGS) fell from 20.6% in FY 2020 to 19.1% in FY 2021. We calculate success rates by dividing the number of ...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - Category: Research Authors: Tags: blog Open Mike awards grants Success Rate Source Type: funding