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. 2023 Jul 26;5:209. Originally published 2020 Sep 8. [Version 10] doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16259.10

Figure 2. Number of Projects by Research Funder (funders with at least 130 projects in the latest version of the tracker displayed).

Figure 2.

Known funding amounts indicated in brackets*. Funders with less than 130 projects: KAKENHI (128 projects; $7.2m); Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (124 projects; $65.9m); NWO Netherlands (120 projects; $345k); Wellcome (113 projects; $11.7m); Emergent Ventures Fast Grants (112 projects; N/A); University of Minnesota (107 projects; $160k); DFG (105 projects; N/A); AMED Japan (104 projects; N/A); TUBITAK (102 projects; N/A); SERB India (95 projects; $139k); University of California (95 projects; N/A); Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health Research (89 projects; N/A); NHMRC (89 projects; $66.1m); Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (86 projects; $23.8m); British Academy (85 projects; $973k); SFI Ireland (85 projects; $5.9m); SNF (83 projects; $41.0m); NRF South Africa (77 projects; $7k); Novo Nordisk Foundation (73 projects; $24.7m); IDRC (72 projects; $35.2m); Indian Council of Social Science Research (72 projects; N/A); FAPES (71 projects; $828k); UKRI / DHSC / NIHR (69 projects; $53.8m); ANID Chile (68 projects; N/A); EOSC (66 projects; N/A); Junta de Castilla y Leon - Consejeria de Sanidad (66 projects; $468k); RCN Norway (65 projects; $32.2m); CSO Scotland (63 projects; $9.4m); MINCTCI - Chile / ANID Chile (63 projects; N/A); Institut Pasteur (61 projects; N/A); Social Sciences Research Council (60 projects; N/A); CONCYTEC Peru (58 projects; $2.2m); HRB Ireland / Irish Research Council (57 projects; $4.8m); National Science Center Poland (57 projects; $9.9m); FAPERGS Brazil (56 projects; N/A); Leibniz Association (56 projects; N/A); MBIE New Zealand (55 projects; $20.9m); Academy of Finland (54 projects; $25.2m); Swedish Research Council (52 projects; $31.2m); Luxembourg National Research Fund (51 projects; $2.9m); Ministre des Solidarités et de la Santé (50 projects; N/A); CRUE/Santander (47 projects; $6.7m); FFG Austria (47 projects; N/A); FORMAS (43 projects; $6.8m); FWF Austria (43 projects; $13.4m); Innovate Peru (42 projects; N/A); USDA – NIFA (42 projects; $18.7m); Estonian Research Council (41 projects; $9.6m); CITF (39 projects; N/A); PCHRD (39 projects; N/A); Qatar National Research Fund (39 projects; N/A); Department of Science and Technology - India (38 projects; N/A); IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (38 projects; N/A); FAPEAM Brazil (37 projects; $1.5m); EDCTP (36 projects; $21.8m); TV3 Foundation (36 projects; $15.2m); Southeast Asia Engineering Education Development Network (35 projects; N/A); FNRS Belgium (34 projects; N/A); Duke University (33 projects; N/A); FAPESC Brazil (33 projects; $285k); RIKEN (33 projects; N/A); ANRS (32 projects; $7.1m); Government of Ontario (32 projects; $1.0m); Heath Research Council New Zealand (32 projects; $7.3m); Innovationsfonden Denmark (32 projects; N/A); MinScience - Colombia (32 projects; $9.4m); Australian Government: Medical Research Future Fund (31 projects; $19.7m); CONACYT - Paraguay (31 projects; $1.4m); Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (31 projects; N/A); International Growth Centre (31 projects; N/A); PRACE (31 projects; N/A); CNRS Lebanon (29 projects; N/A); FAPEMA (29 projects; $253k); FRQ (29 projects; $2.1m); Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation (29 projects; $182k); Vinnova (29 projects; $6.2m); Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (28 projects; $15.8m); UCL (28 projects; $53k); University of Michigan (28 projects; N/A); Russell Sage Foundation (27 projects; $2.7m); C3.ai DTI (26 projects; N/A); Michael Smith Foundation (26 projects; N/A); University of Colorado (26 projects; N/A); BIRAC (25 projects; N/A); RAENG (25 projects; $649k); SNSF (25 projects; $10.4m); Spencer Foundation (25 projects; N/A); ARAMIS (24 projects; $17.9m); CDMRP (24 projects; $56.0m); Goethe University (24 projects; N/A); WWTF Austria (24 projects; $1.2m); FAPESB Brazil (23 projects; N/A); FAPESQ (23 projects; N/A); WE SPARK HEALTH Institute (23 projects; N/A); FAPEMIG (22 projects; $375k); New South Wales Government (22 projects; N/A); The Ottawa Hospital Foundation (22 projects; N/A); BBVA Foundation (21 projects; $2.4m); Burnet Institute (21 projects; N/A); CTSI (21 projects; $1.0m); FWO Belgium (21 projects; $5.5m); Nuffield Foundation (21 projects; $8.1m); SENACYT - Panama (21 projects; $3.6m); SOSCIP (21 projects; N/A); Yale University (21 projects; N/A); American Heart Association (20 projects; N/A); Government of Nepal (20 projects; N/A); Instituto Nacional de Salud Peru (20 projects; N/A); National Research, Development and Innovation Office (20 projects; $16.6m); REACTing/INSERM (20 projects; N/A); SGC (20 projects; N/A); Western University (20 projects; $3.6m); APPRISE (19 projects; $498k); BSAC (19 projects; $967k); UFM Denmark (19 projects; $14.1m); Brown University (18 projects; N/A); Lundbeck Foundation (18 projects; $4.6m); Danish Independent Research Foundation (17 projects; $3.6m); Department of Science and Innovation - South Africa (17 projects; $4.4m); National Council for Science and Technology Rwanda (17 projects; $996k); OUCRU (17 projects; N/A); RSTMH / National Institute for Health Research (17 projects; N/A); ANR / Other French Funders (16 projects; $1.3m); Cambridge Africa (16 projects; N/A); FAPEG (16 projects; $57k); AFD (15 projects; $12.7m); AUF (15 projects; N/A); CHU Dijon Bourgogne (15 projects; N/A); FCDO (formerly DFID) / DHSC / NIHR / Wellcome (Elrha funding call) (15 projects; $1.4m); Fundação Araucária (15 projects; $334k); Innosuisse (15 projects; $2.9m); Russian Science Foundation (15 projects; N/A); G2LM|LIC (14 projects; N/A); PEDL (14 projects; N/A); Research Manitoba (14 projects; $1.9m); BNSF (13 projects; $1.3m); CORFO (13 projects; N/A); LifeArc (13 projects; N/A); NordForsk (13 projects; N/A); NRF Kenya (13 projects; N/A); Wellcome / FCDO (formerly DFID) (13 projects; $17.3m); African Academy of Sciences (12 projects; $2.3m); American Lung Association (12 projects; N/A); American Society of Clinical Oncology (12 projects; N/A); BRICS (12 projects; N/A); COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator (Wellcome / Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) (12 projects; $11.0m); FACEPE (12 projects; $221k); Harrington Discovery Institute (12 projects; N/A); IVADO (12 projects; $674k); North Carolina Biotechnology Center (12 projects; $239k); South African Medical Research Council (12 projects; $3.5m); University of New South Wales (12 projects; N/A); Botnar Research Centre for Child Health (11 projects; N/A); CEPI (11 projects; $1.2b); Coronavirus Research Action Group / Ministry for Innovation and Technology, Hungary (11 projects; N/A); e-Asia JRP (11 projects; N/A); HRZZ Croatia (11 projects; N/A); ICGEB (11 projects; N/A); IHCIETI Honduras (11 projects; N/A); Ministry of Health - Italy (11 projects; $8.2m); NORCE (11 projects; N/A); OFSP (11 projects; $3.7m); Paul Ramsay Foundation (11 projects; N/A); PSI Foundation (11 projects; $1.1m); Roche (11 projects; N/A); Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (10 projects; N/A); American Diabetes Association (10 projects; N/A); AXA (10 projects; N/A); Carlsberg Foundation (10 projects; $6.7m); CHU de Limoges (10 projects; N/A); CIHR / Alberta Innovates (10 projects; $4.2m); Commonwealth Fund (10 projects; $2.3m); FAPEPI Brazil (10 projects; N/A); FAPDF (10 projects; N/A); Higher Education Commission Pakistan (10 projects; N/A); IRSST (10 projects; $636k); Israel Innovation Authority (10 projects; N/A); Nazarbayev University (10 projects; N/A); Ryerson University (10 projects; N/A); Therapeutic Innovation Australia (10 projects; N/A); University of Maryland (10 projects; N/A); Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (10 projects; N/A); York University (10 projects; $182k); Callaghan Innovation (9 projects; $1.1m); CANSSI (9 projects; N/A); Department of Science and Innovation - South Africa /Technology Innovation Agency (9 projects; $1.6m); Fundacion Mutua Madrilena (9 projects; N/A); FUNDECT (9 projects; $38k); Genome BC / Michael Smith Foundation (9 projects; N/A); Greenwall Foundation (9 projects; $737k); Instituto Evandro Chagas (9 projects; N/A); Junta de Andalucia (9 projects; $424k); RBWH Foundation (9 projects; N/A); Research Corporation for Science Advancement (9 projects; $410k); Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (8 projects; N/A); FUNCAP (8 projects; N/A); Innovations for Poverty Action/ FCDO (formerly DFID) (8 projects; N/A); Peter Wall Institute (8 projects; N/A); Peterson Foundation (8 projects; N/A); Shastri Institute (8 projects; $8k); Universidad de los Llanos (8 projects; N/A); Victoria State Government (8 projects; N/A); Visegrad (8 projects; $235k); ACLS (7 projects; N/A); Alberta Innovates (7 projects; $1.6m); American Thoracic Society (7 projects; $305k); American University of Beirut (7 projects; N/A); APPRISE/CREID (7 projects; N/A); Australian National University (7 projects; N/A); Canadian Frailty Network (7 projects; $563k); DIM-ELICIT (7 projects; N/A); Etablissement Français du Sang (7 projects; N/A); FFAR (7 projects; $563k); FORE (7 projects; $1.2m); Innovations for Poverty Action (7 projects; N/A); MINCTCI - Chile (7 projects; N/A); Northern Periphery and Arctic Programme (7 projects; N/A); Partnership for Economic Policy (7 projects; N/A); UNICEF (7 projects; N/A); University of Auckland (7 projects; N/A); University of Calgary / Alberta Health Services (7 projects; N/A); Víctor Grífols i Lucas Foundation (7 projects; N/A); American Pharmacists Association Foundation (6 projects; N/A); Autism Science Foundation (6 projects; N/A); Boettcher Foundation (6 projects; N/A); British Heart Foundation (6 projects; N/A); CaixaImpulse (6 projects; N/A); CHEST Foundation (6 projects; N/A); CIDRI-Africa (6 projects; $338k); CZI (6 projects; N/A); Doherty Institute (6 projects; N/A); Gund Institute (6 projects; N/A); International Science Council (6 projects; N/A); Making The Shift Inc (6 projects; N/A); MRIC Mauritius (6 projects; $74k); RCN Norway / Trond-Mohn Foundation (6 projects; $3.1m); Sigma Theta Tau (6 projects; N/A); UCB Community Health Fund (6 projects; N/A); University of New Hampshire (6 projects; N/A); Al Jalila Foundation (5 projects; N/A); Auckland Medical Research Foundation (5 projects; $244k); Brady Education Foundation (5 projects; $140k); Brain Research New Zealand (5 projects; N/A); CIHR / CABHI (5 projects; $542k); Diabetes UK (5 projects; $520k); Emergency Medicine Foundation (5 projects; $254k); Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (5 projects; $1.1m); Henry Luce Foundation (5 projects; $880k); NCSEHE (5 projects; N/A); Rheumatology Research Foundation (5 projects; N/A); SFI Ireland / IDA Ireland / Enterprise Ireland (5 projects; $2.0m); Telethon Foundation (5 projects; $270k); UFRJ (5 projects; N/A); University of Calgary (5 projects; N/A); WHO Africa (5 projects; N/A); Animal Free Research UK (4 projects; N/A); Azim Premji University (4 projects; N/A); CAPNETZ (4 projects; N/A); CIHR / BC Ministry of Health (4 projects; $568k); CIHR / MoH Canada (4 projects; $580k); CIHR / Research Nova Scotia (4 projects; $3.9m); CIHR / Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation (4 projects; $550k); CREID (4 projects; N/A); Departamento de Investigación postgrado e interaccion social, Bolivia (4 projects; N/A); ICMR / NIH (4 projects; $673k); ICMR / WHO (4 projects; $494k); Institute for Health Management (4 projects; N/A); Malta Council for Science and Technology (4 projects; $3.7m); NASA (4 projects; N/A); South Korea NRF/ Swedish Research Council (4 projects; $720k); Paul Scherrer Institut (4 projects; N/A); Snow Medical (via CREID / APPRISE) (4 projects; N/A); UBC (4 projects; N/A); William T. Grant Foundation (4 projects; $177k); ANID Chile / CONCYTEC Peru (3 projects; $168k); BPI-France (3 projects; $21.8m); CIHR / Health Canada (3 projects; $2.5m); CIHR / Michael Smith Foundation (3 projects; $797k); CIHR / NBHRF (3 projects; $428k); CIHR / Research Manitoba (3 projects; $1.9m); DEFRA (3 projects; $160k); FAPEAL (3 projects; $49k); Inserm (3 projects; N/A); NSFC/South Korea NRF (3 projects; N/A); Sociedad Espanola De Cardiologia (3 projects; N/A); South African Medical Research Council/Department of Science and Innovation - South Africa (3 projects; $1.2m); Vingroup (3 projects; $839k); WHO / Gabon government (3 projects; N/A); CIRAD (2 projects; N/A); DBT India (2 projects; N/A); FAPEAP Brazil (2 projects; $14k); FRQ, Génome Québec (2 projects; N/A); FRQ, MEI (2 projects; N/A); ICMR / University of Birmingham (2 projects; N/A); ICMR / University of Edinburgh (2 projects; $68k); IRD (2 projects; N/A); Newton Fund (2 projects; $152k); NSFC/BNSF (2 projects; N/A); Research Nova Scotia (2 projects; $36k); RSTMH (2 projects; $13k); SEPAR (2 projects; $15k); Solidarity Fund (2 projects; $142k); SVRI (2 projects; N/A); AFD / IRD (1 project; N/A); ANRS / Expertise France (1 project; $132k); ANRS-MIE (1 project; N/A); CIHR / Michael Smith Foundation / BC Ministry of Health (1 project; N/A); CIHR / NBHRF / CABHI (1 project; $112k); CIHR / SSHRC (1 project; $503k); FCDO (formerly DFID) / UNICEF (1 project; N/A); FRQ, CR-IUSMM (1 project; N/A); FRQ, IRSST (1 project; N/A); ICMR / Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (1 project; $837k); ICMR / CDC (1 project; $528k); ICMR / DRDO India / DDR&D Israel (1 project; N/A); ICMR / Emory Vaccine Center (1 project; $106k); ICMR / European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (1 project; N/A); ICMR / FERCAP (1 project; N/A); ICMR / Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (1 project; $25k); ICMR / International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (1 project; N/A); ICMR / Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (1 project; N/A); ICMR / National Institute for Health Research (1 project; $83k); ICMR / National Institute for Health Research / UKRI (1 project; $241k); ICMR / Novavax / 360biolabs (1 project; $996k); ICMR / NYU Grossman school of Medicine (1 project; N/A); ICMR / The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust (1 project; $25k); ICMR / The University of Iowa (1 project; N/A); ICMR / University of Colorado (1 project; N/A); ICMR / University of Indiana (1 project; N/A); ICMR / University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (1 project; N/A); ICMR / University of Oxford (1 project; $100k); ICMR / WHO- SEARO (1 project; $67k); ICMR / World Heart Federation (1 project; $105k); IHU Marseille (1 project; N/A); Michael Smith Foundation / BC Ministry of Health (1 project; N/A); Michael Smith Foundation / CIHR (1 project; N/A); NSFC / Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (1 project; $135k); OSAV (1 project; $138k); Paul Ramsay Foundation (1 project; N/A); Research Grants Council of Hong Kong / Consulate General of France in Hong Kong (1 project; $16k); Russell Sage Foundation (1 project; $170k); SFOE (1 project; $189k); Solidarity Fund/Michael and Susan Dell Foundation (1 project; $910k); SSHRC / Genome Canada (1 project; $713k); STINT / NSFC (1 project; N/A); UNITAID / ANRS (1 project; N/A); UNITAID / EDCTP (1 project; N/A); Wellcome and co-funders (1 project; N/A); WHO (1 project; N/A); Other Canadian Funders (353 projects; $705k); Other French Funders (38 projects; $3.4m); Other USA Funders (12 projects; $969k); Other Israeli Funders (3 projects; $433k); Other Swedish Funders (2 projects; N/A).