Grants for colleges and universities in Puerto Rico
Federal agencies awarded $1.5 billion in 802 grants to colleges and universities in Puerto Rico from fiscal 2021 to 2025. The largest source was Education Stabilization Fund. 724 open or forecast federal grants are good fits for colleges and universities.
- Grants to colleges and universities made up 2% of all federal grant money to recipients in Puerto Rico.
- That is 0% of all federal grant money to colleges and universities nationwide.
- Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$1.5 billion
- Grant awards802
- Good fits open nationwide724
Federal programs that fund colleges and universities in Puerto Rico
| Program | Awarded to colleges and universities in Puerto Rico |
|---|---|
| Education Stabilization Fund | $861 million |
| Biomedical Research and Research Training | $82.0 million |
| Higher Education Institutional Aid | $70.8 million |
| Minority Health and Health Disparities Research | $45.5 million |
| Smith-Lever Extension Funding | $37.1 million |
| Research Infrastructure Programs | $29.1 million |
| Mathematical and Physical Sciences | $27.9 million |
| Payments to Agricultural Experiment Stations Under the Hatch Act | $26.1 million |
| STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) | $25.3 million |
| TRIO Student Support Services | $22.7 million |
Colleges and universities in Puerto Rico that received the most
| Recipient | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus | 130 | $203 million |
Open federal grants for colleges and universities, best fits first
- Cooperative Program for Modeling Clinical Transplantation
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Colleges and universities won 67% of the money in its program over five years - HEAL Initiative: Program to Reveal and Evaluate Cells-to-gene Information that Specify Intricacies, Origins and the Nature of (PRECISION) Human Pain Network
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Colleges and universities won 76% of the money in its program over five years - NIH Blueprint Initiative: Tools for Germline Gene Editing in the Nervous System
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Colleges and universities won 70% of the money in its program over five years - BRAIN Initiative: Brain-Behavior Quantification and Synchronization – Transformative Research on Behavior at the Organismal Level
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Colleges and universities won 78% of the money in its program over five years - Ancillary Studies to Ongoing Clinical Projects (RP1 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
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Colleges and universities won 73% of the money in the programs behind it over five years - Limited Competition: Small Grant Program for the NCATS Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program (Clinical Trial Optional)
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Colleges and universities won 82% of the money in its program over five years - Impact of Immunotherapies on CNS Outcomes in People with HIV: Potential Benefits, Challenges and Risks
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Colleges and universities won 69% of the money in its program over five years - HEAL Initiative: Optimization of Therapeutic Medical Devices through Team Science Mechanistic Research (RM1)
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Colleges and universities won 76% of the money in its program over five years - The NIDDK Inflammatory Bowel Disease Genetics Consortium (IBDGC) Genomic Research Centers
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Colleges and universities won 70% of the money in its program over five years - The NIDDK Inflammatory Bowel Disease Genetics Consortium (IBDGC) Data Coordinating Center
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Colleges and universities won 70% of the money in its program over five years - The NIA Genetics of Alzheimer's Disease Data Storage Site (NIAGADS)
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Colleges and universities won 73% of the money in its program over five years - Autism Centers of Excellence R01
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Colleges and universities won 72% of the money in its program over five years - Autism Centers of Excellence P50
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Colleges and universities won 72% of the money in its program over five years - Functional Target Validation for Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias
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Colleges and universities won 76% of the money in its program over five years - Data Coordinating Center for the Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Mouse Brain Atlas (AD-MBA) (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
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Colleges and universities won 73% of the money in its program over five years - Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Intermediate Patient Population Expanded Access (U01 Clinical Trial Required)
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Colleges and universities won 76% of the money in its program over five years - Advanced Development and Validation of Emerging Technologies for Basic and Clinical Cancer Research (R33 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
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Colleges and universities won 61% of the money in its program over five years - Early-Stage Innovative Technology Development for Basic and Clinical Cancer Research (R61 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
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Colleges and universities won 61% of the money in its program over five years - Infectious Diseases Clinical Trials Network (IDCTN) (UM1 Clinical Trial Required)
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Colleges and universities won 67% of the money in its program over five years - Clinical Research Network on Antimicrobial Resistance (UM1 Clinical Trial Required)
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Colleges and universities won 67% of the money in its program over five years - Limited Competition: NIH Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hubs (REACH) (SB0 Clinical Trial Optional)
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Colleges and universities won 78% of the money in the programs behind it over five years - Clinical Trials and Ancillary Studies Conducted within NIH-Funded Clinical Trial Research Networks (UG3/UH3 - Clinical Trial Required)
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Colleges and universities won 76% of the money in its program over five years - Precision Approaches in Radiation Synthetic Combinations (PAIRS, RP1 Clinical Trial Optional)
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Colleges and universities won 57% of the money in its program over five years - DoW Vision, Clinical Trial Award
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Colleges and universities won 59% of the money in its program over five years - DoW Vision, Investigator-Initiated Research Award
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Colleges and universities won 59% of the money in its program over five years
See all 843 open grants for colleges and universities