Federal grants to Jackson Laboratory
Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine received $392 million in federal grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, across 208 awards. Its largest program was Human Genome Research, with $53.0 million. In fiscal 2025 it was awarded $83.3 million.
From USAspending.gov award records, updated November 7, 2026.
- Grants, FY 2021 to 2025$392 million
- Awards208
- Awarded in FY 2025$83.3 million
- Largest award$14.6 million
By year
| Fiscal year | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY 2021 | 111 | $68.5 million |
| FY 2022 | 108 | $72.7 million |
| FY 2023 | 114 | $77.7 million |
| FY 2024 | 113 | $90.0 million |
| FY 2025 | 104 | $83.3 million |
Programs that fund Jackson Laboratory
| Program | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Human Genome Research | 15 | $53.0 million |
| Aging Research | 28 | $41.0 million |
| Research Infrastructure Programs | 15 | $33.4 million |
| Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research | 8 | $33.2 million |
| Trans-NIH Research Support | 14 | $31.5 million |
| Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs | 9 | $27.1 million |
| Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research | 10 | $21.5 million |
| Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research | 11 | $19.2 million |
| Biomedical Research and Research Training | 19 | $17.3 million |
| Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders | 13 | $15.6 million |
Awarding agencies
| Agency | Awards | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Health and Human Services | 196 | $383 million |
| Department of Defense | 8 | $7.9 million |
| National Science Foundation | 4 | $1.0 million |
Largest awards
| Award | Program | First action | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mouse genome database (MGD): a core knowledge resource for functional characterization of the human genome - project summary as the cost of genome-scale sequencing continues to decrease and new technologies for genome editing become widely adopted, the laboratory mouse is more important than ever as | Human Genome Research | March 19, 2021 | $14.6 million |
| Modulation of lung immune responses to viral infection | Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research | February 12, 2021 | $12.9 million |
| Preclinical genome editing for rare neurological diseases - project summary overall while the development of high-throughput sequencing technology and its application to clinical diagnostics has yielded the genetic basis for many rare genetic diseases, the development of effective treatments has not | Trans-NIH Research Support | May 16, 2023 | $12.8 million |
| Cancer center support (CORE) grant | Cancer Centers Support Grants | April 1, 2021 | $11.6 million |
| The jackson laboratory senescence tissue mapping center (jax-sen tmc) - project summary/abstract overall the jackson laboratory (JAX) cellular senescence network mouse tissue mapping center (jax-sen) represents a multi-modal interdisciplinary effort that draws upon existing, longstanding aging resea | Trans-NIH Research Support | August 12, 2022 | $11.0 million |
| Gene expression database for mouse development | Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research | November 25, 2020 | $11.0 million |
| The jackson laboratory center for precision genetics | Research Infrastructure Programs | August 13, 2021 | $10.7 million |
| Center for systems neurogenetics of addiction | Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs | November 6, 2020 | $9.4 million |
| Identifying and characterizing the full spectrum of haplotype-resolved structural variation in human genomes | Human Genome Research | March 15, 2021 | $9.4 million |
| Interventions that retard mammalian aging | Aging Research | March 31, 2021 | $8.9 million |
Questions people ask
How much federal grant money does Jackson Laboratory get?
$392 million in 208 grant awards from fiscal 2021 to 2025, as obligations reported to USAspending.gov.
Which agency gives Jackson Laboratory the most?
The Department of Health and Human Services, with $383 million in 196 awards. The Department of Defense and the National Science Foundation follow.
What is Jackson Laboratory's largest federal grant?
$14.6 million under Human Genome Research, with its first action in the period on March 19, 2021. That counts only the money obligated in fiscal 2021 to 2025.
Which federal programs fund Jackson Laboratory?
Its largest are Human Genome Research, Aging Research and Research Infrastructure Programs.
Other grant recipients in Bar Harbor
- The Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory
- Mount Desert Island Hospital
- Town of Bar Harbor Housing Authority
- Town of Bar Harbor
- Town of Southwest Harbor Housing Authority
- Ellsworth Housing Authority
- College of the Atlantic
- Tremont Housing Authority
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