5-year change

2016

$24,832,729,252
2015

$23,064,634,261
4%
2014 a closer view largest CALIFORNIA $1,465,624,060
funding
$22,251,657,294
2013
no surprise, nih dollars recipients
2016
MASSACHUSETTS $2,572,549,176

$22,525,484,772 stay close to home NEW YORK $2,205,949,608

2012
While the National Institutes of Health has faced the threat of budget cuts before, its spending has
managed to inch upward 4 percent since 2012. Its shelled out roughly the same number of awards to
PENNSYLVANIA $1,570,151,520
$23,814,144,781 roughly the same number of beneficiaries theyre just, on average, larger awards. Our three local
jurisdictions take a healthy chunk, more than 8 percent of total spending last year. And Maryland is MARYLAND $1,465,624,060
one of the countrys most funded states despite an 8 percent funding decline statewide since 2012.
NORTH CAROLINA: $1,154,347,750
TEXAS: $1,097,661,190
Total NIH Awards average NIH Award size Total NIH recipients
WASHINGTON: $952,837,210
2012 53,330 2012 $446,543 2012 2,598
ILLINOIS: $818,027,921
2013 51,599 2013 436,549 2013 2,503 Virginia ranked

2014 50,712 2014 438,785 2014 2,483

No. 20 OHIO: $734,159,508

2015 51,382 2015 448,885 2015 2,454 District ranked

2016 53,032 2016 468,259 2016 2,588 No. 22 funding changes 2012-2016
68%

57 56
5-year change: 1% 5-year change: 5% 5-year change: 0% 53
49
46
39
most nih awards received 2016
32 32
top maryland recipients top n. virginia recipients top district recipients
California 7,720
Johns Hopkins University $650,878,713 American Type Culture $12,596,603 George Washington $103,671,727
Massachusetts 5,029
Collection University
University of Maryland, 148,216,207
Baltimore Northrop Grumman 9,850,436 Georgetown University 45,469,654 New York 4,953
Systems Pennsylvania 3,464
Leidos Biomedical 143,218,870 Childrens Research Institute 25,785,912
Research Inc. Experimental Pathology 8,871,012 AK AR MS ND ID NV DE WY SC
Howard University 10,931,107 Texas 2,633
Laboratories WV VI LA F* IA PR KS OR MD
WeStat Inc. 55,108,410 THE LOW NUMBER
Carnegie Institution 3,388,857 Maryland 2,358
American College of 7,797,929

$131,951,151
Technical Resources Inc. 45,768,900 of Washington, D.C.
Radiology North Carolina 2,221
Advanced Bioscience 42,694,228 American University 2,893,591 -13 -11 -11 -10 -8
George Mason University 6,175,417 Illinois 1,995 -16 -15
Laboratories Inc.
International 2,585,448 Funding decline for recipients in
Icf Macro Inc. 5,751,582 Ohio 1,694 -24
University of Maryland, 41,164,145 Brotherhood of Teamsters Maryland between 2012 and 2016,
College Park Icf Inc. LLC 4,378,515 Washington the largest in the nation. -35%
American Society for 1,972,141 1,555 * Foreign funding
Emmes Corp. 36,839,089 Science Applications 2,404,006 Microbiology
International Corp.
Social And Scientific 26,897,099 International Association of 1,849,266
Systems Inc. ISA Associates Inc. 2,031,047 Fire Fighters
Fisher Bioservices Inc. 24,029,741 CSR Inc. 1,246,454 National Academy 1,667,589 cities with the most recipients
Largest increases, Largest increases,
of Sciences Most awards 2016 Largest funding recipients 2016 by dollar amount 2012-2016 by percentage 2012-2016

Boston 4,439 Boston $1,903,082,173 Frederick, MD $128,204,448 McLean, VA 815%

VIRGINIA 2016 MARYLAND FUNDING 2016 New York 3,793 New York 1,632,463,079 New York 87,670,564 Jupiter, FL 97

$349,479,689 $1,465,624,060 Philadelphia

Baltimore
2,447
2,293
Baltimore
Seattle
960,576,016
949,400,264
Stanford, CA
Durham, NC
82,418,624
73,160,144
Scottsdale, AZ
Jacksonville, FL
84
79
AVERAGE AWARD SIZE AWARDS AVERAGE AWARD SIZE AWARDS Chicago 1,897 Philadelphia 878,940,980 Seattle 54,555,133 Princeton, NJ 74
$428,284 816 $621,554 2,358 Los Angeles 1,879 La Jolla, CA 753,440,072 Chapel Hill, NC 51,987,146 Calverton, MD 71
Seattle 1,832 San Francisco 718,853,336 Pittsburgh 45,509,804 Kensington, MD 67
R Johns Hopkins has been the
DISTRICT 2016 nations largest beneficiary of NIH San Francisco 1,782 Los Angeles 700,021,431 Princeton, NJ 40,653,207 Pullman, WA 59

$214,175,791 spending for each of the past

five years by a long shot. Its
La Jolla, CA 1,758 Chicago 690,917,871 New Haven, CT 39,107,429 Riverside, CA 46
Pittsburgh 1,452 Pittsburgh 555,817,704 Philadelphia 38,411,819 Frederick, MD 44
AVERAGE AWARD SIZE funding grew 1 percent from
2012 to 2016, when it was
$593,285 11 percent higher than
No. 2s University of
AWARDS
California in San
361 Francisco.
SOURCE:
National Institutes
of Health