NIH Budget Reduction Table

This guide summarizes the administrative budget adjustment policy of each NIH Institute & Center. This provides information to researchers who are developing grant budgets to plan for award amounts after an administrative adjustment and still have adequate funds to conduct the proposed work.

IC Abbreviation: NICHD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Budget Reduction from recommended funding levels for Competitive R01 Award: 14%

IC Abbreviation: NCI
Fiscal Year: 2020
Budget Reduction from recommended funding levels for Competitive R01 Award: Non-modular: 17% (new); 10% (Competing renewals)

Remarks
Modular R01: 5% (Competing renewals, Modular); 6.5% (New Modular with a direct cost $175,000 or less). 8.5% ( New with a direct cost over $175,000). R21: 6.5% (New application with a direct cost $175,000 or less); 8.5% (New application with a direct cost over $175,000). P01, UM1, R33: 10% (Comptering renewals); 13% (New application requesting $175,000 or less); 17% (New application requesting more than $175,000). R35, R03, R15, R50, R43/R44, R41/R42: No reduction.  

IC Abbreviation: NCATS
Fiscal Year: 2020
Budget Reduction from recommended funding levels for Competitive R01 Award: 0%

IC Abbreviation: NCCIH
Fiscal Year: 2019
Budget Reduction from recommended funding levels for Competitive R01 Award: Limited to 4 years duration

IC Abbreviation: NEI
Fiscal Year: 2019
Budget Reduction from recommended funding levels for Competitive R01 Award: Limited to 4 years duration

Remarks
Competing RPGs (R00, R01, R15, R21, R34, U01, DP1 and DP2) will be funded at the recommended levels; however, administrative/programmatic adjustments will be made as appropriate and as required to achieve an approximate average total cost slightly above that for FY2018 level of $398,273.

IC Abbreviation: NHLBI
Fiscal Year: 2020
Budget Reduction from recommended funding levels for Competitive R01 Award: Limited to 4 years duration

Remarks
Exception is applied to early Stage Investigators (ESIs), clinical studies and clinical trials with patient accrual and follow-up timelines that cannot be accomplished within four years. These excepted applications will generally be awarded for the full length of their NHLBAC recommended project periods.

IC Abbreviation: NHGRI
Fiscal Year: 2019
Budget Reduction from recommended funding levels for Competitive R01 Award: Projects will be funded for 3 or 4 years

Remarks
Early stage investigators will be funded for 4 or 5 years

IC Abbreviation: NIA
Fiscal Year: 2020
Budget Reduction from recommended funding levels for Competitive R01 Award: 18% 

Remarks
R03, R21, R15 generally receive the study-section recommended amount of support.

IC Abbreviation: NIAID
Fiscal Year: 2020
Budget Reduction from recommended funding levels for Competitive R01 Award: 0%

IC Abbreviation: NIAMS
Fiscal Year: 2020
Budget Reduction from recommended funding levels for Competitive R01 Award: 12%

Remarks
No reductions will be taken on applications with direct costs of $100,000 or less.

IC Abbreviation: NIBIB
Fiscal Year: 2020
Budget Reduction from recommended funding levels for Competitive R01 Award: 10%; limited to 4 years duration

Remarks
R21, R03, R15, P41 will be fully funded. 

IC Abbreviation: NIDCR
Fiscal Year: 2019
Budget Reduction from recommended funding levels for Competitive R01 Award: 5%

IC Abbreviation: NIDDD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Budget Reduction from recommended funding levels for Competitive R01 Award: Limited to 4 years duration

Remarks
Applications from ESIs, MERIT extensions, program project grants, and clinical trial grants are generally awarded for the full length of their recommended project period.

IC Abbreviation: NIDA
Fiscal Year: 2020
Budget Reduction from recommended funding levels for Competitive R01 Award: Not specified

Remarks
NIDA may reduce competing awards from the IRG recommended levels in order to increase the number of awards issued.

IC Abbreviation: NIEHS
Fiscal Year: 2019
Budget Reduction from recommended funding levels for Competitive R01 Award: Not specified

IC Abbreviation: NIGMS
Fiscal Year: 2020
Budget Reduction from recommended funding levels for Competitive R01 Award: Limited to 4 years duration 

Remarks
5-year R01 grants are made to most early stage investigators and to some new investigators, generally those early in their career, to provide extra time for getting their projects under way. Maximizing Investigators' Research Awards (R35) for established and early stage investigators are funded for 5 years. Other exceptions include centers, which generally are funded for 5 years. NIGMS rarely participates in short-term mechanisms (such as the R21)

IC Abbreviation: NIMH
Fiscal Year: 2020
Budget Reduction from recommended funding levels for Competitive R01 Award: 0% (FY2020); 5% (future years)

Remarks
Modular grant awards will be fully funded.

IC Abbreviation: NINDS
Fiscal Year: 2020
Budget Reduction from recommended funding levels for Competitive R01 Award: 17.5% (Non-modular); 6% (modular)

IC Abbreviation: NINR
Fiscal Year: 2019
Budget Reduction from recommended funding levels for Competitive R01 Award: Not specified

Remarks
NINR may impose an adminstrative budget reduction to R01 grants but the percentage of reduction is not specified. 

IC Abbreviation: NIAAA
Fiscal Year: 2020
Budget Reduction from recommended funding levels for Competitive R01 Award: 10%

Remarks
P01/U01, Research Centers, U10, and R24/R25/R28/U24 grants/cooperative agreements will also be reduced to achieve an aggregate reduction equal to 10 percent of the total costs of the project. R21/R34/U34 grants will be reduced by ¼ module if direct costs are at or above $100,000.

IC Abbreviation: NIDCD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Budget Reduction from recommended funding levels for Competitive R01 Award: 15%

Remarks
Applications with direct costs equal to or less than $150,000 in each year will not be reduced. R01 applications within the payline submitted with Early Stage Investigators as the Principal Investigators(s) are also not reduced administratively.

IC Abbreviation: NIMHD
Fiscal Year: 2020
Budget Reduction from recommended funding levels for Competitive R01 Award: 10-15%

Remarks
Early stage investigators will generally be funded at 100% of the Initial Review Group  and National Advisory Council on Minority Health and Health Disparities  recommended levels

IC Abbreviation: NLM
Fiscal Year: 2020
Budget Reduction from recommended funding levels for Competitive R01 Award: Not specified