Which universities got the most NIH funding in 2025?

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Top 10 by obligations in FY2025. Leading: THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ($844.86M); REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, THE ($827.81M); REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ($727.79M).

RecipientObligations
The Johns Hopkins University$844.86M
Regents of the University of California, San Francisco, the$827.81M
Regents of the University of Michigan$727.79M
Washington University, the$722.44M
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, the$719.63M
The Leland Stanford Junior University$676.47M
Yale University$671.89M
Duke University$619.91M
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York$580.33M
University of California, San Diego$565.55M

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  • Amounts are obligations (money committed), not outlays (money paid).
  • Recipient type (higher education) comes from USAspending's business-type fields; a recipient counts under its most common type.

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