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Federal grant programs / Department of Health and Human Services

Trans-NIH Research Support (93.310)

Also known as NIH-wide Research Support

Trans-NIH Research Support (Assistance Listing 93.310) is run by the National Institutes of Health, part of the Department of Health and Human Services. It awarded $5.9 billion in 4,433 grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, about $1.3 million per award on average. 95 funding opportunities are open or forecast now.

The typical award was $408,177. Half of the 4,433 awards fell between $169,478 and $1.3 million, and they ranged from $0 to $92.4 million.

Key findings

What the program funds

This listing covers multiple offices in the NIH Office of the Director that offer assistance awards or supplements to assistance awards.

From the federal Assistance Listing. Read the full listing on SAM.gov.

Open opportunities

70 more opportunities are listed with all open grants from Department of Health and Human Services.

Rules from the program listing

Who can apply

Awards can be made to domestic, public or private, for-profit or nonprofit organization, university, college, hospital, laboratory, or other institution, including State and local units of government, and individuals. Some initiatives will accept applications from foreign organizations. Additional details on eligibility are specified in each Funding Opportunity Announcement.

What the money can and cannot pay for

To support research and other projects that will accelerate fundamental biomedical discovery and translation of that knowledge into effective prevention strategies and new treatments.

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

$3,000 to $27,999,994 with the average being $640,952.

Quoted from the program's federal Assistance Listing. The notice of funding opportunity is the official source for each competition's rules.

Funding history and past recipients

From fiscal 2021 to 2025, Trans-NIH Research Support (93.310) awarded$5.9 billion across 4,433 grant awards, an average of $1.3 million per award.

Largest recipients, fiscal 2021 to 2025
RecipientStateAwardsAmount
Duke UniversityNorth Carolina66$219 million
The Leland Stanford Junior UniversityCalifornia104$176 million
University of Pittsburgh - of the Commonwealth System of Higher EducationPennsylvania82$153 million
The Johns Hopkins UniversityMaryland95$152 million
Yale UnivConnecticut84$149 million
The General Hospital CorporationMassachusetts58$145 million
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New YorkNew York68$134 million
University of Wisconsin SystemWisconsin48$124 million
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterTennessee37$113 million
The Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaPennsylvania29$110 million
The Regents of the University of ColoradoColorado72$107 million
University of California, San DiegoCalifornia86$102 million
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew York55$101 million
The Trustees of the University of PennsylvaniaPennsylvania73$98.5 million
The Washington UniversityMissouri72$97.4 million
New York UniversityNew York50$83.1 million
The Regents of the University of California, San FranciscoCalifornia108$81.5 million
University of California, DavisCalifornia52$81.3 million
University of North Carolina at Chapel HillNorth Carolina64$80.0 million
The Broad Institute, IncMassachusetts28$79.3 million

Top states: California ($993 million), Massachusetts ($571 million), New York ($546 million), Pennsylvania ($444 million), North Carolina ($387 million), Maryland ($209 million), Connecticut ($177 million), Illinois ($166 million), Texas ($165 million), Tennessee ($159 million).

Who usually wins

Colleges and universities received 72% of the money, nonprofits 23% and small businesses 0.5%.

Recipient typeAwardsAmountShare
Colleges and universities3,330$4.3 billion72%
Nonprofits838$1.4 billion23%
Other209$247 million4.2%
Small businesses35$32.4 million0.5%
Businesses7$8.9 million0.1%
Tribal governments and organizations6$2.1 millionless than 0.1%
State and local governments8$1.6 millionless than 0.1%

By state

52 states have a page for this program: those that received at least $1 million or 10 awards.

Grants by recipient's state, fiscal 2021 to 2025
StateAwardsAmount
California679$993 million
Massachusetts395$571 million
New York378$546 million
Pennsylvania269$444 million
North Carolina186$387 million
Maryland161$209 million
Connecticut109$177 million
Illinois142$166 million
Texas181$165 million
Tennessee79$159 million
Wisconsin70$152 million
Washington130$145 million
Colorado106$140 million
Michigan139$133 million
Missouri99$120 million
Minnesota78$97.3 million
Ohio96$96.0 million
Georgia117$95.4 million
Florida87$94.6 million
New Jersey60$90.2 million
Alabama63$78.6 million
Oregon57$74.9 million
Louisiana41$61.7 million
Arkansas21$50.6 million
Utah47$41.5 million
New Hampshire17$40.7 million
New Mexico14$40.7 million
Indiana51$40.1 million
Virginia51$37.5 million
District of Columbia45$37.4 million
Maine19$34.3 million
South Carolina43$33.7 million
Rhode Island45$31.2 million
South Dakota5$29.8 million
Arizona47$25.2 million
Iowa30$24.6 million
Kansas20$24.0 million
Mississippi14$18.0 million
Oklahoma22$17.6 million
Hawaii14$16.0 million
Kentucky22$15.0 million
Delaware16$11.4 million
Alaska8$10.2 million
Nebraska15$9.7 million
Puerto Rico9$7.7 million
West Virginia8$6.9 million
Montana8$5.4 million
Nevada5$4.4 million
Vermont4$2.1 million
North Dakota5$1.6 million
Wyoming4$1.3 million
Idaho3$1.1 million
U.S. Virgin Islands1$857,166
Guam1$325,303

Award amounts are federal obligations reported to USAspending.gov for fiscal 2021 to 2025; see how our data works.