Who offers federal grants?
The U.S. government is the largest funder of research scientists. In Fiscal Year 2005, for example, NIH part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded more than $20 billion in research grants and $644 million in traineeships. NIH, the National Science Foundation (NSF), and other agencies such as the Education and Defense departments and an increasingly well-funded Department of Homeland Security, publicize their research priorities, program goals and specific awards through Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs). The government’s primary Web portal for grants, www.grants.gov, posts FOAs from 26 federal agencies.
