Research Portfolio Trends

How an institution's R&D across federal agencies and across fields of science has shifted over FY2020–24. Award Insights

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See five years of research funding: which federal agencies fund the work (NSF, NIH, DOD, DOE, NASA, USDA), how that mix is shifting, and which fields of science are growing or shrinking. Totals reconcile to the NSF HERD survey.

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Source: NSF Higher Education R&D (HERD) survey microdata, FY2020–24, joined to IPEDS by UNITID plus a hand-checked crosswalk for the 34 HERD reporters with no or outdated IPEDS IDs (Johns Hopkins, Ohio State, Maryland, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt and others); every link was checked against Carnegie's FY2021–23 figures. Where one HERD report covers campuses Carnegie designates separately, it's shown as one combined institution, never split. Research institutions without IPEDS records are included but left out of peer benchmarks. Private for-profit institutions are excluded. "Federal R&D by agency" is federally financed expenditures split by funding agency; "by field" is total R&D (all sources) by field of science. Growth figures compare the first and last year each institution reported. Designation from the 2025 Carnegie Research Activity file. Prototype.