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Basic and Applied Scientific Research

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Money by year

Fiscal yearObligated (USAspending)
FY2023$963.56M
FY2024$863.18M
FY2025$670.97M
FY2026$704.21M

Obligations are money committed in prime awards, as agencies report them to USAspending.gov (FY2023 on; data through 2026-09-30).

Where it goes, FY2025

Largest recipients, FY2025

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology $36.00M
  • University of California San Diego $33.21M
  • University of Washington $28.28M
  • University of Connecticut $19.83M
  • The Leland Stanford Junior University $18.00M
  • University of Wisconsin System $14.08M
  • Regents of the University of Michigan $13.39M
  • Georgia Tech Research Corp $12.82M
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution $12.03M
  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University $11.21M

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