NIH grants × USAspending

Top NIH (biomedical) grant awardees by amount

Institutions (universities, medical schools, research organizations) that won the most NIH biomedical research funding, ranked by total over the last 10 fiscal years (aggregated from USAspending) — showing where U.S. medical and life-science research concentrates.

An organization of public government data, not an official U.S. government site. Aggregates cover collected data, and rankings are based on name-level aggregation.

What the data shows

The top is dominated by leading research universities and medical schools, reflecting how concentrated U.S. biomedical research is in these hubs. NIH funding spans basic biology through clinical and public-health science, so universities with teaching hospitals and medical schools tend to rank high. Placed beside the same-method NSF ranking, it reveals how the institutions that attract funding differ between basic science (NSF) and medicine and life science (NIH).

Top 50 of 60

#	Awardee	Amount
1	THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY	≈$7.05B
2	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, THE	≈$6.69B
3	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN	≈$5.87B
4	TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, THE	≈$5.7B
5	WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE	≈$5.39B
6	UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	≈$5.39B
7	THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY	≈$5.27B
8	YALE UNIV	≈$5.22B
9	THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK	≈$5.03B
10	DUKE UNIVERSITY	≈$5.02B
11	THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION	≈$4.92B
12	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO	≈$4.66B
13	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES	≈$4.61B
14	UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON	≈$4.59B
15	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL	≈$4.38B
16	EMORY UNIVERSITY	≈$4.1B
17	ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI	≈$3.74B
18	UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM	≈$3.36B
19	BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL INC	≈$3.31B
20	NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY	≈$3.3B
21	NEW YORK UNIVERSITY	≈$3.2B
22	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA	≈$3.13B
23	VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER	≈$3.09B
24	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA	≈$2.89B
25	THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO	≈$2.79B
26	UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	≈$2.71B
27	BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE	≈$2.54B
28	OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY	≈$2.53B
29	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS	≈$2.44B
30	WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY	≈$2.39B
31	THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER	≈$2.37B
32	MAYO CLINIC	≈$2.3B
33	OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, THE	≈$2.16B
34	THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO	≈$2.1B
35	UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA	≈$2.09B
36	UNIVERSITY OF UTAH	≈$2.08B
37	TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY	≈$2.05B
38	CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION, THE	≈$1.93B
39	SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH	≈$1.83B
40	FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER	≈$1.81B
41	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE	≈$1.78B
42	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE	≈$1.77B
43	RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA	≈$1.71B
44	UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL	≈$1.7B
45	SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE	≈$1.67B
46	CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY	≈$1.63B
47	THE UNIVERISTY OF TEXAS M.D. ANDERSON CANCER CENTER	≈$1.61B
48	ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE	≈$1.6B
49	UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER	≈$1.56B
50	FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER	≈$1.55B

Aggregates cover each source's collected data. Names use the original data as-is.

FAQ

What does this ranking show?

Institutions (universities, medical schools, research bodies) that won the most NIH biomedical research funding, ordered by total awards over the last 10 fiscal years — showing where U.S. medical and life-science research concentrates.

How does it differ from the NSF ranking?

NIH centers on medicine and life sciences (disease, public health, basic biology); NSF covers physical sciences, engineering and computing. The identical method lets you compare how funding clusters by field.

Are individual researchers included?

No. It aggregates at the institution level and never handles personal names (principal investigators) — PII protection.

What is the source? Is it NIH RePORTER?

The ranking aggregates NIH assistance from U.S. government spending data (USAspending) per institution. For project-level detail (titles, research categories), see the official NIH RePORTER.

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