NIH RePORTER data · Fiscal year 2022

NIH Funding by Institution: FY2022 Rankings

Reviewed by Dr. Meng ZhaoLast reviewed October 16, 2026Data refreshed October 16, 2026Editorial standards

NIH awarded $37.03B to 2,910 universities, medical schools, hospitals, research institutes, and companies in fiscal year 2022. Johns Hopkins University ranked first with $837.7M. Search the full ranking below, filter by state or organization type, and see how each institution moved against the prior year.

FY2022 NIH award funding

$37.03B

Institutions funded

2,910

Distinct NIH recipient organizations

Award records

65,582

Subprojects excluded

Top-10 share

18.4%

Top 50 hold 55.4% of funding

Top 15 NIH-funded institutions, FY2022

  1. 1
    Johns Hopkins University$837.7M
  2. 2
    University of California, San Francisco$817.0M
  3. 3
    Duke University$671.9M
  4. 4
    University of Pennsylvania$667.2M
  5. 5
    University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh$664.4M
  6. 6
    Stanford University$657.7M
  7. 7
    University of Michigan at Ann Arbor$640.4M
  8. 8
    Washington University$625.4M
  9. 9
    Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc.$625.1M
  10. 10
    Columbia University Health Sciences$614.7M
  11. 11
    Yale University$598.8M
  12. 12
    University of California Los Angeles$595.0M
  13. 13
    University of California, San Diego$591.9M
  14. 14
    Univ of North Carolina Chapel Hill$587.0M
  15. 15
    University of Washington$585.5M

What stands out

  • Johns Hopkins University led with $837.7M across 1,493 awards and 1,257 investigators; its largest administering institute was NIAID.
  • The 10 largest recipients took 18.4% of all NIH award dollars, and the top 50 took 55.4%.
  • California institutions received the most of any state, $5.46B (14.9% of U.S. recipient funding).

Full FY2022 NIH funding ranking

Search by name or city, narrow to a state or organization type, or re-sort by year-over-year change. Ranks are national ranks, so they stay fixed when you filter. Download the filtered list as CSV.

1,000 institutions · $36.02B in FY2022 NIH funding · table covers the top 1,000 of 2,910 funded institutions

NIH funding by institution, fiscal year 2022, ranked by total award amount
RankInstitutionFY2022 funding
1
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD · Higher education
$837.7M
2
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA · Higher education
$817.0M
3
Duke University
Durham, NC · Higher education
$671.9M
4
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA · Higher education
$667.2M
5
University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA · Higher education
$664.4M
6
Stanford University
Stanford, CA · Higher education
$657.7M
7
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI · Higher education
$640.4M
8
Washington University
Saint Louis, MO · Higher education
$625.4M
9
Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc.
Frederick, MD · Company
$625.1M
10
Columbia University Health Sciences
New York, NY · Higher education
$614.7M
11
Yale University
New Haven, CT · Higher education
$598.8M
12
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA · Higher education
$595.0M
13
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA · Higher education
$591.9M
14
Univ of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC · Higher education
$587.0M
15
University of Washington
Seattle, WA · Higher education
$585.5M
16
Emory University
Atlanta, GA · Higher education
$561.0M
17
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA · Hospital
$555.0M
18
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY · Higher education
$454.6M
19
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN · Higher education
$430.4M
20
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Seattle, WA · Nonprofit
$414.2M
21
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL · Higher education
$396.6M
22
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA · Hospital
$380.6M
23
New York University School of Medicine
New York, NY · Higher education
$378.1M
24
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN · Hospital
$375.8M
25
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI · Higher education
$366.5M
26
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX · Higher education
$357.1M
27
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL · Higher education
$335.6M
28
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA · Higher education
$325.4M
29
University of Colorado Denver
Aurora, CO · Higher education
$321.2M
30
Research Triangle Institute
Research Triangle Park, NC · Research institute
$313.3M
31
Scripps Research Institute, the
La Jolla, CA · Nonprofit
$288.8M
32
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR · Higher education
$287.2M
33
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX · Higher education
$272.9M
34
Weill Medical Coll of Cornell Univ
New York, NY · Higher education
$271.4M
35
Sloan-Kettering Inst Can Research
New York, NY · Research institute
$269.5M
36
University of California at Davis
Davis, CA · Higher education
$267.3M
37
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL · Higher education
$261.4M
38
Mayo Clinic Rochester
Rochester, MN · Nonprofit
$252.7M
39
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL · Higher education
$250.5M
40
Utah State Higher Education System--University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT · Higher education
$242.2M
41
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH · Higher education
$231.3M
42
Indiana University Indianapolis
Indianapolis, IN · Higher education
$230.8M
43
University of Maryland Baltimore
Baltimore, MD · Higher education
$226.0M
44
Boston Children's Hospital
Boston, MA · Hospital
$215.1M
45
University of California-Irvine
Irvine, CA · Higher education
$210.7M
46
Broad Institute, Inc.
Cambridge, MA · Research institute
$201.5M
47
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY · Higher education
$200.2M
48
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH · Higher education
$198.0M
49
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA · Higher education
$193.3M
50
Ppd Development Lp
Wilmington, NC · Company
$185.8M

NIH funding by state, FY2022

#StateFundingShare
1California$5.46B14.9%
2New York$3.43B9.3%
3Massachusetts$3.28B8.9%
4Maryland$2.42B6.6%
5Pennsylvania$2.17B5.9%
6North Carolina$2.17B5.9%
7Texas$1.78B4.8%
8Washington$1.44B3.9%
9Illinois$1.20B3.3%
10Ohio$963.7M2.6%
11Michigan$919.9M2.5%
12Florida$850.1M2.3%
13Georgia$843.4M2.3%
14Missouri$811.6M2.2%
15Minnesota$757.2M2.1%
Show the other 40 states and territories
16Connecticut$735.6M2.0%
17Tennessee$710.8M1.9%
18Virginia$634.9M1.7%
19Wisconsin$567.4M1.5%
20Colorado$530.2M1.4%
21New Jersey$448.9M1.2%
22Alabama$396.6M1.1%
23Oregon$395.0M1.1%
24Indiana$373.0M1.0%
25Arizona$353.8M1.0%
26Utah$274.9M0.7%
27Rhode Island$245.9M0.7%
28District of Columbia$238.7M0.6%
29South Carolina$238.6M0.6%
30Kentucky$234.7M0.6%
31Louisiana$227.0M0.6%
32Iowa$202.3M0.6%
33Nebraska$154.6M0.4%
34Oklahoma$137.6M0.4%
35Kansas$125.2M0.3%
36New Mexico$122.6M0.3%
37New Hampshire$122.0M0.3%
38Maine$113.3M0.3%
39Arkansas$104.1M0.3%
40Delaware$77.8M0.2%
41Vermont$66.4M0.2%
42Mississippi$61.1M0.2%
43Hawaii$57.2M0.2%
44West Virginia$48.9M0.1%
45Puerto Rico$43.8M0.1%
46Montana$41.5M0.1%
47Nevada$40.3M0.1%
48South Dakota$29.2M0.1%
49North Dakota$25.9M0.1%
50Idaho$18.1M0.0%
51Alaska$16.6M0.0%
52Wyoming$13.4M0.0%
53American Samoa$6.2M0.0%
54Guam$1.9M0.0%
55U.S. Virgin Islands$549K0.0%

By organization type

Each institution is grouped by where most of its NIH dollars go, using NIH's recipient type. A university's medical school can be its own row, but stays under higher education.

  • Higher education$25.95B · 70.1%
  • Hospital$3.33B · 9.0%
  • Company$3.20B · 8.7%
  • Research institute$2.76B · 7.5%
  • Nonprofit$1.48B · 4.0%
  • Foreign institution$258.1M · 0.7%
  • Other$18.9M · 0.1%

How this ranking is built

Source: the public NIH RePORTER API, refreshed October 16, 2026. See also our data methodology.

Dollar totals measure scale, not research quality or training environment. Our guide on how to read NIH funding rankings by university covers what these numbers miss.

  • What countsEvery NIH award record in the fiscal year — research grants, cooperative agreements, training and career awards, SBIR/STTR, and R&D contracts. NIH intramural research and interagency agreements with other federal agencies are excluded.
  • Dollar amountRePORTER's total award amount (direct plus indirect costs) obligated in that fiscal year, not the full multi-year value of each grant.
  • No double countingComponents of multi-project awards (P01, U54, center grants) are excluded; their dollars are already in the parent award.
  • Who an institution isRows follow NIH's recipient organization code, so a university's medical school, affiliated hospital, and separate campuses can appear separately. Subawards stay with the prime recipient.

NIH funding ranking questions

Which institution receives the most NIH funding in FY2022?

Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD) received the most NIH award funding in fiscal year 2022: $837.7M across 1,493 award records. The next largest recipients were University of California, San Francisco, Duke University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh.

How much NIH funding went to outside institutions in FY2022?

NIH RePORTER lists $37.03B in extramural award funding across 65,582 award records to 2,910 institutions in fiscal year 2022. The ten largest recipients received 18.4% of that total, and the top 50 received 55.4%.

Which state receives the most NIH funding?

California led all states in FY2022 with $5.46B in NIH awards to 435 institutions, 14.9% of funding to U.S. recipients in this table.

Why do these numbers differ from the BRIMR rankings or NIH RePORT?

Rankings differ by what they count. This page totals every NIH award record in RePORTER for the fiscal year, including grants, cooperative agreements, training awards, and R&D contracts, and groups them by the NIH recipient organization code. BRIMR ranks medical school departments and folds affiliated hospitals into schools; NIH RePORT's "Awards by Location & Organization" applies its own inclusion rules. A university's medical school, hospital, and other campuses can therefore appear as separate rows here.

Are subawards to collaborating institutions counted?

No. NIH reports awards to the prime recipient only. When a university passes part of a grant to a collaborator through a subaward, the full amount stays with the prime recipient in RePORTER, so collaborating institutions can look smaller than the research they actually host.

How often is this ranking updated?

The ranking is rebuilt from the NIH RePORTER API and was last refreshed on October 16, 2026. It covers fiscal years 2022 through 2026. Verify individual awards at reporter.nih.gov before citing them.

Go deeper than the institution total

Other years: FY2026 NIH funding rankings · FY2025 NIH funding rankings · FY2024 NIH funding rankings · FY2023 NIH funding rankings