NIH shared Federal Year 2023 (FY23: October 1, 2022 – September 30, 2023) data of application, award, and success rates. NIH awarded 58,951 grants. This includes competing and non-competing awards but excludes contracts. The amount represents a 1% increase from FY22. In terms of dollars, NIH awarded $34.9 billion in competing and non-competing grant awards, a 4.7% increase from FY22. The $34.9 billion represents 73.1% of its $47.7 billion total appropriation for FY23. (The rest of the NIH budget goes to contract awards, intramural research, administration, and other areas of NIH such as communications, policy, legislative offices, etc.)
The number of research project grant (RPG) applications decreased by 4.9% from FY22. The number of new or renewal RPG awards decreased from FY22 by 2.3%. However, the success rate of RPG applications increased by 2.8% and the average size of RPG awards increased by 2.9%.
Similarly, the number of R01-equivalent grant applications decreased by 3.1% from FY22 and the number of new or renewal R01-equivalent awards decreased by 2.9% from FY22. Success rates for R01-equivalent awards increased by 0.3% and the award size increased by 2.7%.
The post (https://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2024/02/21/fy-2023-by-the-numbers-extramural-grant-investments-in-research/) has more information including FY22 and FY23 values for each data point tracked.
