Federal agencyVerified2026-09-24

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Opportunities linked
7

Records in this library attributed to this funder.

Recorded awards (total)
$1,332,084,375

Sum of the awards we hold for this funder. A floor on its giving, not a filing total.

Median recorded award
$200,000

The midpoint of the awards we hold, not a cap and not a filing median.

Data year
Not stated

The most recent fiscal year among the awards we hold, as the source wrote it.

Why there is no giving history here

Award listings from USASpending are not connected yet. What is missing here is a feed on our side, not a document this funder has failed to publish - the listings are public and we have not connected them.

Derived from awards

Computed from the 415 recipients we hold an award to. This is where money we can see went, which is not the same as a statement of what this funder sets out to fund — and the gap between the two is widest where our coverage is thinnest.

Programmes, by money awarded

  • 11.609$638,631,033722 awards
  • 11.620$396,218,969252 awards
  • 11.619$287,176,22036 awards
  • 11.042$10,058,15318 awards

Where the recipients are

The recipient's own location, not where the work happens. A national body headquartered in Washington spends money everywhere.

  • MD $296,266,672
  • CO $257,941,839
  • DE $246,534,862
  • CA $64,514,546
  • IL $62,064,492
  • DC $61,139,251
  • NC $55,014,559
  • PA $40,298,834
  • MA $32,057,611
  • NY $30,815,813
  • TX $25,319,833
  • AL $21,047,930
  • VA $17,420,094
  • IA $17,271,426
  • IN $16,626,645
  • FL $11,391,528
  • GA $10,992,104
  • MI $6,987,782
  • WI $5,003,531
  • CT $4,922,041

Award sizes

Fixed bands rather than this funder's own quantiles, so two funders can be compared. A per-funder split would make every distribution look the same shape.

  • 100k-500k 575
  • 25k-100k 201
  • 500k-2m 136
  • over-2m 71
  • under-25k 45

By fiscal year

A trend across the years we import, which is a bounded window. A year with no bar is a year outside it, not a year with no funding.

  • FY2014 $49,018,301 (2)
  • FY2015 $8,007,788 (5)
  • FY2016 $86,870,844 (9)
  • FY2017 $127,289,985 (35)
  • FY2018 $149,482,920 (35)
  • FY2019 $60,428,042 (63)
  • FY2020 $108,198,647 (70)
  • FY2021 $257,029,114 (118)
  • FY2022 $134,797,026 (157)
  • FY2023 $211,596,408 (163)
  • FY2024 $58,383,285 (171)
  • FY2025 $68,791,142 (134)
  • FY2026 $12,190,873 (66)

Giving history, from the awards we hold

No dated awards on file for this funder

This table takes one row per fiscal year, built from the awards we hold. We have connected none for this funder that state a year, so there is nothing to group. That is a gap in our coverage, not a finding that the funder gave nothing.

Who has received money from this funder

1028 awards on file, largest first, ranging $0 to $83,000,000.

RecipientStateAmountFiscal year
CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITYNot stated$11,7382018
GENOMIC STANDARDS CONSORTIUMNot stated$11,6602025
UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDANot stated$10,8472024
GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCESNot stated$10,5002025
CENTER FOR MATERIALS BY DESIGN LLCNot stated$10,0002023
GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCESNot stated$10,0002023
GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCESNot stated$10,0002024
GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCESNot stated$10,0002024
THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYNot stated$9,2992022
TROY UNIVERSITYNot stated$9,2982024
BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITYNot stated$8,9282024
L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Not stated$8,8772016
GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCESNot stated$8,4802023
NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITYNot stated$6,8702024
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYNot stated$5,0002023
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONNot stated$4,8002022
ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITYNot stated$4,4432024
METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVERNot stated$2,0002024
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITYNot stated$1,9722024
APCO WORLDWIDE LLCNot stated$02025
BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKANot stated$02022
BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKANot stated$02023
HELLOMAXWELL, INC.Not stated$02020
PRECZN INCNot stated$02025
RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHENNot stated$02022
TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITYNot stated$02022
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISNot stated$02022
XALLENT LLCNot stated$02022

Source: USASpending.gov federal award records. Federal awards only. Last synced 2026-09-15.

What this funder funds

Derived from how this funder's 7 linked opportunities are classified, not from a funding strategy the funder published.

  • Science, Technology, Research & Development6
  • Other1

Currently open opportunities

Verified against each record's own source. The date on every row is the day we last checked that record — not the day this page was built.

What this funder’s awards look like

Counted over the award rows we hold for this funder. These are statistics over published records, not a model’s reading of them, and not a prediction.

Awards on file1028
Distinct recipients412
Median award$200,000

Included with Studio

The counts and the median above stay free, because they are the evidence for everything else. Studio adds the breakdowns: which states the awards went to, what kind of organisation received them, and how the amounts are distributed.

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Where this came from

Source page
grants.gov
Retrieved
Sep 24, 2026
Data source
The funder's own published figures
Award listing
usaspending.gov

The portal page the recipient rows were read from.

Awards synced
2026-09-15

When the recipient rows were last confirmed against that listing.

The official page is authoritative. Agency and foundation pages change without notice, and the retrieval date above is the only claim we make about currency. Figures we have not connected are labelled as ours to connect, never as facts about the funder.

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