The first few months of the new administration have brought significant changes to NIH and other HHS scientific funding. I created RePORTER reporter to track and visualize these changes. What was initially a simple plot of grants awarded in 2025 compared to previous years has grown to include data from multiple sources. I welcome feedback and corrections if you find any mistakes!
NIH RePORTER has information on all grants and contracts funded by NIH. These plots compare cumulative funding in the current year to the past 9 years through today's date. RePORTER updates late every Sunday.
Under the Federal Advisory Committee Act study sections that review NIH grants need to be announced in the Federal Register at least 15 days before the study section meets. I parsed the meetings from Federal Register notices and created plots comparing the current year to the previous nine years.
The Health and Human Services Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website has a link to a PDF of awards that have been terminated. The PDF is not easy to explore and does not contain context (e.g., investigators, keywords) that may be useful for analysis.
The following NIH Institutes and Centers have individual plots available. Click on any link to view the corresponding interactive visualization.
| Institute | Available Plots |
|---|---|
| Center for Scientific Review | awards | award amounts | meeting notices |
| Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development | awards | award amounts | meeting notices |
| Fogarty International Center | awards | award amounts | meeting notices |
| National Cancer Institute | awards | award amounts | meeting notices |
| National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences | awards | award amounts | meeting notices |
| National Eye Institute | awards | award amounts | meeting notices |
| National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute | awards | award amounts | meeting notices |
| National Human Genome Research Institute | awards | award amounts | meeting notices |
| National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases | awards | award amounts | meeting notices |
| National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases | awards | award amounts | meeting notices |
| National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering | awards | award amounts | meeting notices |
| National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research | awards | award amounts | meeting notices |
| National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases | awards | award amounts | meeting notices |
| National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | awards | award amounts | meeting notices |
| National Institute of General Medical Sciences | awards | award amounts | meeting notices |
| National Institute of Mental Health | awards | award amounts | meeting notices |
| National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke | awards | award amounts | meeting notices |
| National Institute of Nursing Research | awards | award amounts | meeting notices |
| National Institute on Aging | awards | award amounts | meeting notices |
| National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism | awards | award amounts | meeting notices |
| National Institute on Drug Abuse | awards | award amounts | meeting notices |
| National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities | awards | award amounts | meeting notices |
| National Library of Medicine | awards | award amounts | meeting notices |
| Office of the Director | awards | award amounts | meeting notices |
Several features have been requested in the last few months. The NIH fiscal year is October 1 through September 30. Adding plots that use fiscal year makes it easier to visualize spending in this interval.
Comparing total grant amounts in 2016 and 2025 ignores the impact of inflation. I created overall NIH plots that adjust historical award amounts to current‑dollar terms by first downloading the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI‑U, series CPIAUCSL) from the Federal Reserve’s FRED database, then computing the mean CPI for each calendar and fiscal year. Using the most recent CPI value as the reference, it derives an adjustment factor for each year—defined as the ratio of the latest CPI to that year’s average CPI—and multiplies every award amount by its corresponding factor.
I also created new plots that show NIH grant awards by state and by common medical conditions. For medical conditions, I extracted records that contain these RePORTER project terms:
| Condition (slug) | Keyword list |
|---|---|
| heart_disease | heart disease, cardiovascular, coronary, heart failure, myocardial infarction |
| breast_cancer | breast cancer, mammary carcinoma |
| lung_cancer | lung cancer, pulmonary cancer, bronchogenic carcinoma |
| prostate_cancer | prostate cancer |
| colorectal_cancer | colorectal cancer, colon cancer, rectal cancer |
| pancreatic_cancer | pancreatic cancer |
| leukemia | leukemia |
| lymphoma | lymphoma |
| melanoma | melanoma |
| covid | covid, sars-cov-2, coronavirus |
| trauma | trauma, injury, accident |
| stroke | stroke, cerebrovascular, brain hemorrhage |
| respiratory_disease | copd, asthma, emphysema, bronchitis, respiratory disease |
| alzheimer | alzheimer, dementia, neurodegenerative |
| diabetes | diabetes, insulin resistance, hyperglycemia |
| influenza | influenza, pneumonia, flu |
| kidney_disease | kidney disease, renal disease, nephropathy, dialysis |
| mental_health | depression, anxiety, mental health, psychiatric |
| suicide | suicide, self-harm |
| liver_disease | liver disease, cirrhosis, hepatitis |
| hypertension | hypertension, high blood pressure |
| parkinson | parkinson, movement disorder |
| obesity | obesity, overweight |
| hiv_aids | hiv, aids, acquired immune deficiency syndrome |
| opioid | opioid, addiction, substance abuse |
As always, I welcome feedback and corrections if any errors are found.
Cumulative awards by state (updated each Tuesday).
| AL | AK | AZ | AR | CA |
| CO | CT | DE | FL | GA |
| HI | ID | IL | IN | IA |
| KS | KY | LA | ME | MD |
| MA | MI | MN | MS | MO |
| MT | NE | NV | NH | NJ |
| NM | NY | NC | ND | OH |
| OK | OR | PA | RI | SC |
| SD | TN | TX | UT | VT |
| VA | WA | WV | WI | WY |
Cumulative awards for key biomedical topics.
- Heart Disease
- Breast Cancer
- Lung Cancer
- Prostate Cancer
- Colorectal Cancer
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Leukemia
- Lymphoma
- Melanoma
- COVID‑19
- Trauma
- Stroke
- Respiratory Disease
- Alzheimer
- Diabetes
- Influenza
- Kidney Disease
- Mental Health
- Suicide
- Liver Disease
- Hypertension
- Parkinson
- Obesity
- HIV/AIDS
- Opioid Use Disorder
Large cache files necessary for plot generation are stored using Git LFS. To speed up cloning, use git clone --filter=blob:none. After cloning, run git lfs pull to fetch the cached data when needed.