In fiscal year 2026, NIH made 66,657 extramural awards worth $39.42B to 2,336 institutions. Johns Hopkins University received the most, $936.7M, and the top 10 institutions took 20% of the total.
| Rank | Institution | State | Awards | NIH funding |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Johns Hopkins University | MD | 1,601 | $936.7M |
| 2 | University of California, San Francisco | CA | 1,622 | $906.0M |
| 3 | Washington University in St. Louis | MO | 1,421 | $841.6M |
| 4 | University of Michigan at Ann Arbor | MI | 1,448 | $833.1M |
| 5 | University of Pennsylvania | PA | 1,439 | $819.9M |
| 6 | Yale University | CT | 1,289 | $740.0M |
| 7 | University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh | PA | 1,263 | $737.8M |
| 8 | Stanford University | CA | 1,242 | $737.2M |
| 9 | Massachusetts General Hospital | MA | 1,145 | $691.7M |
| 10 | Columbia University Health Sciences | NY | 1,093 | $649.4M |
| 11 | Duke University | NC | 1,009 | $619.6M |
| 12 | University of North Carolina Chapel Hill | NC | 1,067 | $601.9M |
| 13 | University of Washington | WA | 1,000 | $570.1M |
| 14 | Emory University | GA | 989 | $555.0M |
| 15 | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | NY | 827 | $547.2M |
| 16 | University of California, San Diego | CA | 963 | $545.1M |
| 17 | Northwestern University | IL | 853 | $514.2M |
| 18 | University of California Los Angeles | CA | 903 | $511.8M |
| 19 | New York University School of Medicine | NY | 728 | $503.8M |
| 20 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | WI | 761 | $491.7M |
| 21 | University of Minnesota | MN | 812 | $443.2M |
| 22 | Brigham and Women's Hospital | MA | 662 | $417.3M |
| 23 | Vanderbilt University Medical Center | TN | 638 | $416.5M |
| 24 | University of Southern California | CA | 549 | $415.0M |
| 25 | University of Colorado Denver | CO | 823 | $397.9M |
| 26 | Weill Medical College of Cornell University | NY | 608 | $390.6M |
| 27 | Mayo Clinic Rochester | MN | 516 | $383.7M |
| 28 | University of Alabama at Birmingham | AL | 679 | $373.4M |
| 29 | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | WA | 340 | $359.8M |
| 30 | University of California at Davis | CA | 577 | $358.4M |
| 31 | Baylor College of Medicine | TX | 658 | $333.6M |
| 32 | UT Southwestern Medical Center | TX | 648 | $330.3M |
| 33 | Oregon Health & Science University | OR | 503 | $316.5M |
| 34 | University of Chicago | IL | 522 | $314.2M |
| 35 | Ohio State University | OH | 577 | $305.6M |
| 36 | University of Florida | FL | 614 | $300.9M |
| 37 | Indiana University Indianapolis | IN | 504 | $298.9M |
| 38 | University of Utah | UT | 587 | $292.2M |
| 39 | Boston Children's Hospital | MA | 446 | $285.4M |
| 40 | Memorial Sloan Kettering (Sloan Kettering Institute) | NY | 423 | $274.1M |
| 41 | University of California-Irvine | CA | 450 | $248.4M |
| 42 | University of Virginia | VA | 486 | $247.8M |
| 43 | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | PA | 367 | $246.5M |
| 44 | University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center | TX | 454 | $240.3M |
| 45 | Boston University Medical Campus | MA | 352 | $232.7M |
| 46 | Albert Einstein College of Medicine | NY | 371 | $225.8M |
| 47 | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | MA | 359 | $223.1M |
| 48 | Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences | NJ | 407 | $222.8M |
| 49 | University of Rochester | NY | 451 | $218.9M |
| 50 | University of Miami School of Medicine | FL | 328 | $214.4M |
| 51 | University of Arizona | AZ | 365 | $212.4M |
| 52 | University of Maryland Baltimore | MD | 397 | $211.5M |
| 53 | University of Texas Health Science Center Houston | TX | 325 | $203.7M |
| 54 | University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester | MA | 381 | $202.5M |
| 55 | Case Western Reserve University | OH | 350 | $197.8M |
| 56 | Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center | OH | 335 | $192.4M |
| 57 | University of Iowa | IA | 391 | $188.4M |
| 58 | Scripps Research Institute | CA | 225 | $184.8M |
| 59 | University of Illinois at Chicago | IL | 345 | $177.8M |
| 60 | Broad Institute, Inc. | MA | 112 | $168.9M |
| 61 | Brown University | RI | 278 | $164.5M |
| 62 | Wake Forest University Health Sciences | NC | 292 | $161.6M |
| 63 | University of Kentucky | KY | 293 | $157.9M |
| 64 | Medical University of South Carolina | SC | 309 | $155.9M |
| 65 | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | MA | 255 | $154.7M |
| 66 | Research Triangle Institute | NC | 84 | $151.3M |
| 67 | Harvard Medical School | MA | 307 | $150.9M |
| 68 | Medical College of Wisconsin | WI | 252 | $147.2M |
| 69 | University of California Berkeley | CA | 306 | $146.6M |
| 70 | University of Texas Health Science Center | TX | 276 | $140.1M |
| 71 | Cleveland Clinic Lerner Com-Cwru | OH | 267 | $137.4M |
| 72 | University of Kansas Medical Center | KS | 240 | $133.8M |
| 73 | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | CA | 211 | $130.2M |
| 74 | Vanderbilt University | TN | 337 | $127.5M |
| 75 | Virginia Commonwealth University | VA | 288 | $127.1M |
| 76 | Dartmouth College | NH | 200 | $125.0M |
| 77 | MIT | MA | 211 | $124.7M |
| 78 | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital | TN | 198 | $120.5M |
| 79 | University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center | NM | 171 | $116.4M |
| 80 | Tulane University of Louisiana | LA | 189 | $115.5M |
| 81 | University of Texas Medical Br Galveston | TX | 176 | $115.4M |
| 82 | University of South Florida | FL | 158 | $113.7M |
| 83 | University of Texas at Austin | TX | 248 | $113.6M |
| 84 | Harvard University D/B/A Harvard School of Public Health | MA | 148 | $113.4M |
| 85 | Cornell University | NY | 222 | $113.2M |
| 86 | University of Nebraska Medical Center | NE | 216 | $110.9M |
| 87 | Kaiser Foundation Research Institute | CA | 107 | $108.5M |
| 88 | Seattle Children's Hospital | WA | 153 | $107.6M |
| 89 | Pennsylvania State University | PA | 185 | $106.3M |
| 90 | University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center | OK | 200 | $101.0M |
| 91 | Beckman Research Institute/City of Hope | CA | 156 | $96.2M |
| 92 | University of Cincinnati | OH | 164 | $95.9M |
| 93 | University of Louisville | KY | 163 | $95.6M |
| 94 | Tufts University Boston | MA | 142 | $95.4M |
| 95 | State University of New York at Buffalo | NY | 212 | $94.7M |
| 96 | Jackson Laboratory | ME | 133 | $94.5M |
| 97 | University of Missouri-Columbia | MO | 167 | $93.0M |
| 98 | State University New York Stony Brook | NY | 184 | $87.4M |
| 99 | Pennsylvania State University Hershey Medical Center | PA | 144 | $87.4M |
| 100 | Arizona State University-Tempe Campus | AZ | 157 | $87.1M |
Universities, medical centers, hospitals and independent institutes are all included, because NIH funds all of them. Schools with a page here are linked.
| Institute | Focus | Awards | Funding |
|---|---|---|---|
| NCI | cancer | 10,307 | $5.69B |
| NIAID | infectious disease, immunology and allergy | 8,095 | $5.09B |
| NIA | aging and Alzheimer's disease | 5,728 | $4.68B |
| NIGMS | basic biomedical science and research training | 7,093 | $3.54B |
| NHLBI | heart, lung, blood and sleep | 5,992 | $3.44B |
| NINDS | neurology and stroke | 4,536 | $2.56B |
| NIDDK | diabetes, digestive and kidney disease | 4,221 | $2.21B |
| NIMH | mental health | 3,152 | $1.91B |
| NICHD | child health, pregnancy and development | 3,232 | $1.62B |
| NIDA | addiction and substance use | 2,447 | $1.53B |
| OD | cross-NIH programs | 694 | $1.17B |
| NEI | vision and eye disease | 1,621 | $726.0M |
| NCATS | translational science | 343 | $691.7M |
| NIAMS | arthritis, bone, muscle and skin | 1,480 | $680.7M |
| NIEHS | environmental health | 1,221 | $649.3M |
| NIAAA | alcohol research | 1,161 | $503.2M |
| NHGRI | genomics | 508 | $460.6M |
| NIMHD | minority health and health disparities | 686 | $459.8M |
| NIDCD | hearing, balance, voice and speech | 1,043 | $454.2M |
| NIBIB | imaging and bioengineering | 995 | $439.3M |
| NIDCR | dental and craniofacial health | 891 | $418.5M |
| NCCIH | complementary and integrative health | 268 | $178.9M |
| NINR | nursing research | 246 | $149.0M |
| FIC | global health research | 498 | $93.9M |
| NLM | biomedical informatics | 199 | $83.5M |
Next: NIH funding by state, or every federal funder of university research.