International Science and Engineering (47.079)
International Science and Engineering (Assistance Listing 47.079) is run by the National Science Foundation. It awarded $383 million in 655 grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, about $584,640 per award on average. 12 funding opportunities are open or forecast now.
The typical award was $200,000. Half of the 655 awards fell between $47,904 and $398,123, and they ranged from $1,318 to $52.9 million.
- Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$383 million
- Grant awards655
- Typical award$200,000
- Awarded in FY 2025$56.5 million
- Size rank432 of 1824
- Type of assistanceProject grants
Key findings
- Annual funding fell from $70.9 million in fiscal 2021 to $56.5 million in fiscal 2025.
- It is the 432nd largest of 1,824 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
- The 20 largest recipients received 60% of the money.
- Awards went to recipients in 50 states and territories.
What the program funds
To enable the U.S. to maintain its leadership within the global scientific community by strengthening international partnerships to advance scientific discovery and contribute to the security and welfare of the Nation; to develop a globally engaged U.S. science and engineering workforce by providing U.S. students and faculty with international research and education experiences.
Open opportunities
- National Science Foundation Translation to Practice (NSF TTP)
- EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (FEC)
- Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1
- EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII): EPSCoR Research Fellows
- Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science (FAIROS)
- Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
- Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Excellence in Research (HBCU - EiR)
- National Science Foundation National Innovation Corps Teams (NSF National I-CorpsTM Teams) Program
- Facilitating Research at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions: (RUI and ROA-PUI)
- Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR): Workshop Opportunities
- Cyberinfrastructure for Public Access and Open Science
- Multilateral Partnerships Leveraging Excellence
Rules from the program listing
What the money can and cannot pay for
Specific Restrictions Determined at NOFO Level
Matching requirements
This program has no statutory formula. Matching requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing. MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.
Award range and average, in the agency's words
Range Lo: $87,233 Range High: $6,804,000 Average: $285,744
Funding history and past recipients
From fiscal 2021 to 2025, International Science and Engineering (47.079) awarded$383 million across 655 grant awards, an average of $584,640 per award.
| Recipient | State | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Internat Human Frontier Science Programm | 2 | $56.4 million | |
| U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation | Virginia | 1 | $52.9 million |
| University of Illinois | Illinois | 8 | $15.9 million |
| "Internationales Institut Fuer Angewandte Systemanalyse"-"international Institute for Applied Systems Analysis" | 3 | $13.5 million | |
| Michigan State University | Michigan | 11 | $9.0 million |
| The Regents of the University of California | California | 5 | $8.1 million |
| Arizona State University | Arizona | 14 | $7.1 million |
| The Johns Hopkins University | Maryland | 3 | $6.6 million |
| National Academy of Sciences | District of Columbia | 6 | $6.4 million |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Michigan | 11 | $6.2 million |
| University of Tennessee | Tennessee | 4 | $5.9 million |
| The Ohio State University | Ohio | 6 | $5.7 million |
| University of Utah | Utah | 2 | $5.2 million |
| University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science | Maryland | 1 | $5.0 million |
| J. Craig Venter Institute, Inc. | California | 1 | $5.0 million |
| The Pennsylvania State University | Pennsylvania | 16 | $4.9 million |
| University of Texas at Austin | Texas | 7 | $4.9 million |
| Cornell University | New York | 11 | $4.3 million |
| Georgia Tech Research Corp | Georgia | 13 | $3.5 million |
| University of California, Davis | California | 6 | $3.3 million |
Who usually wins
Colleges and universities received 63% of the money, businesses 18% and small businesses 0.1%.
| Recipient type | Awards | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colleges and universities | 612 | $240 million | 63% |
| Other | 16 | $74.1 million | 19% |
| Businesses | 22 | $68.5 million | 18% |
| Small businesses | 3 | $443,542 | 0.1% |
| Individuals | 2 | $5,200 | 0% |
By state
39 states have a page for this program: those that received at least $1 million or 10 awards.
| State | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 17 | $56.8 million |
| California | 61 | $25.8 million |
| Illinois | 19 | $21.1 million |
| Texas | 43 | $16.9 million |
| New York | 52 | $16.6 million |
| Michigan | 28 | $15.7 million |
| Maryland | 12 | $13.1 million |
| District of Columbia | 20 | $11.8 million |
| Pennsylvania | 36 | $11.7 million |
| Arizona | 21 | $9.3 million |
| Ohio | 16 | $9.1 million |
| Massachusetts | 24 | $8.3 million |
| Tennessee | 12 | $8.1 million |
| North Carolina | 19 | $6.3 million |
| Colorado | 13 | $6.2 million |
| Indiana | 17 | $6.1 million |
| Georgia | 25 | $5.6 million |
| Kansas | 10 | $5.6 million |
| Utah | 2 | $5.2 million |
| Florida | 21 | $5.1 million |
| New Jersey | 16 | $3.8 million |
| Oklahoma | 8 | $3.8 million |
| Alabama | 11 | $3.5 million |
| Nebraska | 11 | $3.5 million |
| Washington | 12 | $2.9 million |
| Vermont | 5 | $2.7 million |
| West Virginia | 3 | $2.3 million |
| Maine | 2 | $2.2 million |
| Wisconsin | 6 | $2.0 million |
| Connecticut | 9 | $2.0 million |
| Louisiana | 9 | $2.0 million |
| South Carolina | 6 | $2.0 million |
| Iowa | 10 | $2.0 million |
| New Mexico | 8 | $1.9 million |
| Missouri | 9 | $1.8 million |
| New Hampshire | 7 | $1.5 million |
| Rhode Island | 6 | $1.3 million |
| Oregon | 6 | $1.3 million |
| North Dakota | 4 | $1.1 million |
| South Dakota | 3 | $939,939 |
| Montana | 3 | $876,722 |
| Kentucky | 3 | $753,842 |
| Minnesota | 5 | $721,739 |
| Nevada | 4 | $602,855 |
| Idaho | 3 | $324,317 |
| Puerto Rico | 4 | $306,353 |
| Hawaii | 1 | $298,926 |
| Alaska | 2 | $247,944 |
| Arkansas | 2 | $102,784 |
| Mississippi | 3 | $58,857 |