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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 NSF awards and Obligations

Use the metric control to switch between the cumulative number of awards and cumulative obligations.

NSF Awards by Directorate

Use the Directorate control below the chart to compare FY trends across NSF’s directorates.


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

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