Programs Calendar YTD 2026 (Jan 1–Sep 27) vs prior Calendar YTD

How NIH money is flowing

See which NIH Institutes and Centers are awarding the money this year, and how that compares with the same stretch last year.

These are different clocks — don’t mix them. Calendar is Jan–Dec; Fiscal YTD is the NIH money year (starts October).

Figures use calendar year to date 2026 (Jan 1–Sep 27), compared with the same dates last year.

Funders

Who at NIH is giving the awards

5 of 24 · largest by YTD $
Funders are the NIH Institutes and Centers that write the awards — for example cancer research (NCI) or aging research (NIA).

Showing the 5 largest Funders by calendar year-to-date dollars. Open the full list for all 24.

Mechanisms

5 mechanisms · Calendar YTD
Mechanisms are the form an NIH grant takes — for example a research project (R01) or shared lab equipment (S10).

Award type

Where the award sits in its life cycle

3 types · Calendar YTD
New is first NIH support for a project. Competing renewal asks for another multi-year stretch and must win peer review again. Noncompeting renewal is the next year inside an already approved stretch.

Funders, Mechanisms, and Award type use the active time window (Calendar YTD or Fiscal YTD) and compare with the same stretch last year (data through Sep 27, 2026). See Methods for how we define time windows and categories.