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

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

NIH funding by state, FY2022

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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.

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