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Our agency funding curves1 track the progress of federal agencies’ grantmaking activity over the fiscal year, monitoring both their compliance with Congressional appropriations laws and their actual support of their scientific missions and the research community. For more information on the source data and processing used to create these graphs see our methods page.

All NIH Awards and Obligations

Use the metric control to switch between the cumulative number of awards (restricted to Type 1 (new), Type 3 (competing revisions), and Type 5 (non-competing continuation) grants) and cumulative obligations (all grant Types 1-9).2

NIH Awards by Type

NIH makes new and competitive renewal awards, as well as non-competitive renewal awards, which are standard continuations of multi-year projects. Use the Award Type control below the chart to switch between the two.

  • New applications are requests for new projects that have not previously been funded.
  • Competitive Renewals are requests for continued funding after the original project period ends; these applications go through full peer review and must compete again for funding.
  • Non-Competitive Renewals provide continued funding for the next budget period within an already approved multi-year project.

More information about the different types of NIH grants can be found here.

NIH Awards by State

NIH Awards by Institute and Center

NIH is made up of 27 Institutes and Centers.

NIH Awards by Mechanism

NIH Awards by Grant Activity


  1. Adapted from Jeremy Berg’s original analyses.↩︎

  2. We use Type 1, 3, and 5 only for consistency with the NIH Data Book. More information about the different types of NIH grants can be found here.↩︎

Get in touch

Reach out to the Grant Witness team.

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