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NSF BY THE NUMBERS DASHBOARD
CODEBOOK
Updated: March 2024
Version 1.0.5
National Science Foundation
This codebook describes the data lineage of the ‘Numbers by State’, ‘Trends’, and ‘Details’ sections of the public dashboard.
For questions and comments, please contact [email protected]
Global Data Filters
Funding Rate:
Fiscal Year:
- Allows users to filter data from specific fiscal years. Users can select multiple fiscal years to analyze the data from 2011 to 2023.
Competitive Proposals:
- Only Competitive Proposals are loaded.
Competitive proposals include full proposals for grants, cooperative agreements, fellowships, and interagency agreements that are new projects, renewals, or accomplishment-based renewals.
In addition, competitive proposals and awards include those managed by programs that are majority funded by NSF direct appropriations with the intent of providing information on the decisions that were made with NSF appropriations. Therefore, programs whose predominant source of funding are one of the following are excluded:
- H1B Visa Fees
- Donations
- Deposit Funds
IPA (Intergovernmental Personnel Award) Proposals:
- IPA proposals are excluded.
Organization:
Funding rate data is restricted to Managing Organizations in these Directorates: BIO, CSE, EDU, ENG, GEO, MPS, O/D, SBE, TIP.
Award Obligation:
Fiscal Year:
Allows users to filter data from specific fiscal years. Users can select multiple fiscal years to analyze the data from 2011 to 2023.
IPA (Intergovernmental Personnel Award) Awards:
- IPA proposals are excluded.
Organization:
Award Obligation data is restricted to Funding Organizations in these Directorates: BIO, CSE, EDU, ENG, GEO, MPS, O/D, SBE, TIP.
NUMBERS BY STATE
INDEX
| TAB | SECTION | DEFINITION |
|---|---|---|
| NSF By Numbers | Proposals Evaluated | Count of new competitive proposal awards and declines made, based on the fiscal year of decision (Division Director Concur/First year of funding). These are new, renewal, and accomplishment-based renewal actions. |
| NSF By Numbers | New Awards Funded | Count of new competitive awards made, based on the fiscal year of decision (Division Director Concur/First year of funding). These are new, renewal, and accomplishment-based renewal actions. Actions funded by NSF mandatory appropriations are excluded. |
| NSF By Numbers | Funding Rate | Count of competitive awards made divided by competitive awards and declines. |
| NSF By Numbers | NSF Funded Institutions | Awardee institutions receiving funding obligated in the fiscal year shown. This includes funding on new awards as well as increments or supplements made to awards made in prior fiscal years. Only NSF direct appropriations are included. |
| NSF By Numbers | Award Obligation Amount | Obligations on awards in the fiscal year shown. This includes funding on new awards as well as increments or supplements made to awards made in prior fiscal years. Only NSF direct appropriations are included. |
| NSF By Numbers | Breakdown of NSF Funding by Directorate | Shows a breakdown of the summary statistic by managing directorate. |
| NSF By Numbers | Breakdown of NSF Funding by State | Shows a breakdown of the summary statistic by the state of the awardee institution. |
| NSF By Numbers | Breakdown of NSF Funding by Institution | Shows a breakdown of the summary statistic by the awardee institution. |
| NSF By Numbers | Filter Condition: Fiscal Year | For Proposals Evaluated and New Awards Funded, the fiscal year of decision. For NSF Funded Institutions and Award Obligation Amount, the fiscal year funds were obligated. |
| NSF By Numbers | Filter Condition: EPSCoR | For the fiscal year shown, whether or not the state of the institution associated with the proposal or award was an EPSCoR state. |
| NSF BY Numbers | Filter Condition: Institution Type | Filters according to the institution type that has received the award. This includes 2-year, bachelor, Federal, individuals, industry, masters granting, PhD granting, and small businesses. |
| NSF By Numbers | Filter Condition:Minority Serving Inst | Filters the institutions associated with proposals, awards, or obligations by their type of Minority Serving Institution (MSI). Note that MSI status is defined according to current status as captured in the NSF Institution database. |
| NSF By Numbers | Filter Condition: Institution | Filters according to the name of the institution or organization (i.e., college, business, or other entity) receiving the obligation. |
Proposals Evaluated
TAB: NSF by the Numbers
SECTION: Proposals Evaluated
Source:
Data Repository: Budget Internet Information System (BIIS)
Dataset: Summary Proposal and Award Information (Funding Rate) by State and Organization
Description: BIIS is a public facing portal for NSF’s funding trend information by NSF organization, awardee institution, and state.
Access Level: Public
Variable:
Definition: Count of new competitive proposals and renewal requests for funding which received a final award decision in the given fiscal years.
Construction: This metric is calculated by doing a count of all competitive proposals.
Output Type: Integer
Possible values: No limit; depends upon Dashboard criteria selected.
Dashboard Filtering Conditions: Fiscal Year, Minority Serving Institutions, EPSCoR State, Institution Type, Institution.
Note: Any combination of filters results in an institution having an overall Proposal Evaluated count of < 10 (based on top-level trend), then those institutions will be shown in an aggregate bar labeled "Multiple Institutions" in the Proposals Evaluated by Institution pane.
Any Combination of filters that results in a DIR/DIV having an overall Proposal Evaluated count <10 (based on top-level trend), then those will aggregate under a bar labeled as “Multiple Directorates/Divisions” in Proposal Evaluated by NSF Org pane.
TAB: NSF by the Numbers
SECTION: New Awards Funded
Source:
Data Repository: Budget Internet Information System (BIIS)
Dataset: Summary Proposal and Award Information (Funding Rate) by State and Organization
Description: BIIS is a public facing portal for NSF’s funding trend information by NSF organization, awardee institution, and state.
Access Level: Public
Variable:
Definition: Count of new competitive awards made, based on the fiscal year of decision (Division Director Concur). These are new, renewal, and accomplishment-based renewal actions. Actions funded by NSF mandatory appropriations are excluded.
Construction: This metric is calculated by the summation of awarded proposals. The dataset is public and can be calculated through the summation of awards in the ‘Detail’ tab of the NSF by the Numbers Page.
For more information about NSF’s merit review process see here.
Output Type: Integer
Possible values: No limit; depends upon Dashboard criteria selected.
Dashboard Filtering Conditions: Fiscal Year, Minority Serving Institutions, EPSCoR State, Institution Type, Institution
TAB: NSF by the Numbers
SECTION: Funding Rate
Source:
Data Repository: Budget Internet Information System (BIIS)
Dataset: Summary Proposal and Award Information (Funding Rate) by State and Organization
Description: BIIS is a public facing portal for NSF’s funding trend information by NSF organization, awardee institution, and state.
Access Level: Public
Variable:
Definition: Count of new competitive awards made divided by the number of competitive proposals acted upon in the given fiscal year.
Construction: This metric is calculated by the division of competitive proposals by the sum of all proposals received. For more information on the merit review process see here.
Output Type: Integer (Percentage)
Possible values: 0-100%; depends upon Dashboard criteria selected.
Dashboard Filtering Conditions: Fiscal Year, Minority Serving Institutions, EPSCoR State, Institution Type, Institution.
TAB: NSF by the Numbers
SECTION: NSF Funded Institutions
Source:
Data Repository: Budget Internet Information System (BIIS)
Dataset: Award Summary: by State/Institution
Description: BIIS is a public facing portal for NSF’s funding trend information by NSF organization, awardee institution, and state.
Access Level: Public
Variable:
Definition: The number of awardee institutions receiving funding in the given fiscal year. Excludes individual awardees. Includes funding on new awards as well as increments or supplements made to awards made in prior fiscal years. Only NSF direct appropriations are included.
Construction: The metric can be calculated from the institutional data in the ‘Detail’ tab of the NSF by the Numbers Page.
Output Type: Integer
Possible values: No limit; depends upon Dashboard criteria selected.
Dashboard Filtering Conditions: Fiscal Year, Minority Serving Institutions, EPSCoR State, Institution Type, Institution.
TAB: NSF by the Numbers
SECTION: Award Obligations
Source:
Data Repository: Budget Internet Information System (BIIS)
Dataset: Award Summary: by State/Institution
Description: BIIS is a public facing portal for NSF’s funding trend information by NSF organization, awardee institution, and state.
Access Level: Public
Variable:
Definition: Sum of funding obligated in the fiscal year shown. Includes NSF direct appropriations. Excludes funding for administrative planning and related technology investments Shown in millions of dollars.
Construction: Award obligations can be calculated by the summation of award obligations. This data is public and presented in the award obligations information in the ‘Detail’ tab of the NSF by the Numbers Page.
Output Type: Numeric
Possible values: No limit; depends upon Dashboard criteria selected.
Dashboard Filtering Conditions: Fiscal Year, Minority Serving Institutions, EPSCoR State, Institution Type, Institution.
Breakdown of NSF Funding by DIR/DIV, State and Institution
TAB: NSF by the Numbers
SECTION: Award Obligations
Description:
The lower half of the By the Numbers dashboard presents a breakdown of the selected metrics (proposals, awards, etc.) by funding to specific directorates, states, and institutions. This information can be constructed through award data in the ‘Details’ tab.
Note: the visualization of state trends per capita is calculated by dividing the metric selected by the population of the respective state. The population source is the United States Census Bureau’s “Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for the United States, Regions, States, and Puerto Rico”. Calculations are based on the population for the fiscal year selected.
FILTER OPTIONS IN NSF BY THE NUMBERS
Different sections within the dashboard include filtering options to select and modify the data presented. Filtering conditions are based on the definitions below. All information by which the filters select information is available in the award data in the ‘Details’ tab.
Fiscal Year:
Allows users to filter data from specific fiscal years. Users can select multiple fiscal years for analysis. Depending on the measure, it is based on fiscal year of proposal decision or fiscal year of obligation. For Proposals Evaluated and New Awards Funded, the fiscal year of decision. For NSF Funded Institutions and Award Obligation Amount, the fiscal year funds were obligated.
EPSCoR State
Filters states that qualify for the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). The EPSCoR states displayed are based on the EPSCoR designation effect in the Fiscal Year selected by the user.
Institution Type:
Filters according to the institution type that has received the award. This includes characteristics groupings of NSF funded institutions as indicated by the performing organization code, a self-reported institution classification.
Minority Serving Institutions:
Filters the institutions associated with proposals, awards, or obligations by their type of Minority Serving Institution (MSI). Note that MSI status is defined according to current status as captured in the NSF Institution database. Allows users to filter data by specific minority serving institution designations, such as:
MSIs, Non MSIs, Disabled Serving, High African American Enrollment (HAAE), Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), Hispanic Serving, High American Indian Serving, Native Alaskan Serving, Native Hawaiian Serving, Pacific Islander Serving, or Tribal Colleges, Majority Minority Serving and Universities.
Institutions: Filters according to the name of the institution or organization (i.e., college, business, or other entity) receiving the obligation.
TRENDS
The Trends tab of the NSF by the Numbers webpage enables side by side comparisons of different filter selections.
INDEX
| TAB | SECTION | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|---|
| Trends | Proposals Evaluated | Count of new competitive proposal awards and declines made, based on the fiscal year of decision (Division Director Concur/First year of funding). These are new, renewal, and accomplishment-based renewal actions. |
| Trends | New Awards Funded | Count of new competitive awards made, based on the fiscal year of decision (Division Director Concur/First year of funding). These are new, renewal, and accomplishment-based renewal actions. Actions funded by NSF mandatory appropriations are excluded. |
| Trends | Funding Rate | Count of competitive awards made divided by competitive awards and declines. |
| Trends | NSF Funded Institutions | Awardee institutions receiving funding obligated in the fiscal year shown. This includes funding on new awards as well as increments or supplements made to awards made in prior fiscal years. Only NSF direct appropriations are included. |
| Trends | Award Obligations | Obligations on awards in the fiscal year shown. This includes funding on new awards as well as increments or supplements made to awards made in prior fiscal years. Only NSF direct appropriations are included. |
| Trends | Filter Condition: EPSCoR | For the fiscal year shown, whether the state of the institution associated with the proposal or award was an EPSCoR state. |
| Trends | Filter Condition:Minority Serving Institution | Filters the institutions associated with proposals, awards, or obligations by their type of Minority Serving Institution (MSI). Note that MSI status is defined according to current status as captured in the NSF Institution database. |
| Trends | Filter Condition: Institution Type | Filters according to the institution type that has received the award. This includes 2-year, bachelor, Federal, individuals, industry, masters granting, PhD granting, and small businesses. |
| Trends | Filter Condition: State/Territory | Filters according to the State/Territory of the institution associated with the proposal or award. |
| Trends | Filter Condition: Directorate | Filters according to the selected NSF directorate that has provided the award. |
Proposals Evaluated
TAB: Trends
SECTION: Proposals Evaluated
Source:
Source of data is identical to Proposals Evaluated description in ‘Numbers by State’ section of the codebook.
Variable:
Variable construction is identical to Proposals Evaluated description in ‘Numbers by State’ section of the codebook.
New Awards Funded
TAB: Trends
SECTION: New Awards Funded
Source:
Source of data is identical to New Awards in ‘Numbers by State’ section of the codebook.
Variable:
Variable construction is identical to New Awards in ‘Numbers by State’ section of the codebook.
Funding Rate
TAB: Trends
SECTION: Funding Rate
Source:
Source of data is identical to Funding Rate in ‘Numbers by State’ section of the codebook.
Variable:
Variable construction is identical to New Awards in ‘Numbers by State’ section of the codebook.
NSF Funded Institutions
TAB: Trends
SECTION: NSF Funded Institutions
Source:
Source of data is identical to Funded Institutions in ‘Numbers by State’ section of the codebook.
Variable:
Variable construction is identical to Funded Institutions in ‘Numbers by State’ section of the codebook.
Award Obligations
TAB: Trends
SECTION: Award Obligations
Source:
Source of data is identical to Award Obligations in ‘Numbers by State’ section of the codebook.
Variable:
Variable construction is identical to Award Obligations in ‘Numbers by State’ section of the codebook
Filters
EPSCoR State: Filters states that qualify for the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). The EPSCoR states displayed are based on the EPSCoR designation effect in the Fiscal Year selected by the user.
Minority Serving Institutions: Filters the institutions associated with proposals, awards, or obligations by their type of Minority Serving Institution (MSI).
Note:
MSI status is defined according to current status as captured in the NSF Institution database. MSI status can be updated depending on the incorporation of EAC MSI information.
Institution Type: Filters according to the institution type that has received the award. This includes characteristics groupings of NSF funded institutions as indicated by the performing organization code, a self-reported institution classification.
State/Territory: Filters according to the State/Territory of the institution associated with the proposal or award.
Directorate: Filters according to the selected NSF directorate that has provided the award.
DETAILS
The Details tab of the NSF by the Numbers Dashboard provides information on all AWARDS matching the filtering criteria selected in the ‘Numbers by State’ tab. The Details tab does not show non-awarded proposals.
Note: Filters selected on the Numbers by State page will carry over and affect the Details page.
Source:
Data Repository: Budget Internet Information System (BIIS)
Agency Priority Goal (APG)
INDEX
TAB | SECTION | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|---|
| Investigators/Investigator Goals | Number of proposals with principal investigators from groups underrepresented in STEM | Total number of proposals with principal investigators from groups underrepresented in STEM. Investigators from groups underrepresented in STEM are principal investigators who identify as: (1) women (2) members of racial or ethnic groups underrepresented in STEM (including African American/Black, American Indian/Alaska Native, Hispanic/Latino, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander) or (3) persons with disabilities. |
| Investigators/Investigator Goals | % Change from FY 20 in number of proposals with principal investigators from groups underrepresented in STEM | Percentage change in proposals from Fiscal Year 2020 with principal investigators from groups underrepresented in STEM. Investigators from groups underrepresented in STEM are principal investigators who identify as: (1) women or (2) members of racial or ethnic groups underrepresented in STEM (including African American/Black, American Indian/Alaska Native, Hispanic/Latino, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander) or (3) persons with disabilities.
|
| Investigators/Investigator Goals | Proportion of proposals with principal investigators from groups |
|
| Institutions/Institution Goals | Number of proposals from underserved institutions | Total number of proposals from underserved Institutions. Institutions categorized as underserved are educational, non-profit, and for-profit domestic entities that receive on average of less than $50 million in federal research funds AND are EITHER classified as Minority-Service Institutions OR located in EPSCoR jurisdictions. |
| Institutions/Institution Goals | % Change from FY 20 in number of proposals from underserved institutions | Percentage change in proposals from Fiscal year 2020 from underserved institutions. Institutions categorized as underserved are educational, non-profit, and for-profit domestic entities that receive on average of less than $50 million in federal research funds AND are EITHER classified as Minority-Service Institutions OR located in EPSCoR jurisdictions. |
| Institutions/Institution Goals | Proportion of proposals from underserved institutions | Proportion of proposals is total number of proposals from underserved institutions divided by total number of proposals. Institutions categorized as underserved are educational, non-profit, and for-profit domestic entities that receive on average of less than $50 million in federal research funds AND are EITHER classified as Minority-Service Institutions OR located in EPSCoR jurisdictions. |
| Documentation | Documentation | Shows the details of Goal statement, Definitions, Email Support, Release Notes. |
Number of proposals with principal investigators from groups underrepresented in STEM
TAB: Investigators/Investigator Goals
SECTION: Number of proposals with principal investigators from groups underrepresented in STEM
Source:
Data Repository: Enterprise Information System (EIS)
Description: EIS is a database maintained by Office of Budget, Finance and Award Management (BFA)
Variable:
Definition: Total number of proposals with principal investigators from groups underrepresented in STEM. Investigators from groups underrepresented in STEM are principal investigators who identify as: (1) women (2) members of racial or ethnic groups underrepresented in STEM (including African American/Black, American Indian/Alaska Native, Hispanic/Latino, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander) or (3) persons with disabilities.
FY23 APG Goal:
FY23 APG Goal line value generated by the summation of FY20 total Investigator Proposals with 10% of FY20 Investigator Proposals.
% Change from FY20 in number of proposals with principal investigators from groups underrepresented in STEM
TAB: Investigators/Investigator Goals
SECTION: % Change from FY20 in number of proposals with principal investigators from groups underrepresented in STEM
Source:
Data Repository: Enterprise Information System (EIS)
Description: EIS is a database maintained by Office of Budget, Finance and Award Management (BFA)
Variable:
Definition: Percentage change in proposals from Fiscal Year 2020 with principal investigators from groups underrepresented in STEM. Investigators from groups underrepresented in STEM are principal investigators who identify as: (1) women or (2) members of racial or ethnic groups underrepresented in STEM (including African American/Black, American Indian/Alaska Native, Hispanic/Latino, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander) or (3) persons with disabilities.
FY23 APG Goal:
FY23 APG Goal value generated by the summation of a constant value of 10% respective to FY20 Investigator Proposals.
Proportion of proposals with principal investigators from groups underrepresented in STEM
TAB: Investigators/Investigator Goals
SECTION: Proportion of proposals with principal investigators from groups underrepresented in STEM
Source:
Data Repository: Enterprise Information System (EIS)
Description: EIS is a database maintained by Office of Budget, Finance and Award Management (BFA)
Variable:
Definition: Proportion of proposals is total number of proposals with principal investigators from groups underrepresented in STEM divided by total number of proposals. Investigators from groups underrepresented in STEM are principal investigators who identify as: (1) women or (2) members of racial or ethnic groups underrepresented in STEM (including African American/Black, American Indian/Alaska Native, Hispanic/Latino, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander) or (3) persons with disabilities.
FY23 APG Goal:
INSTITUTIONS
Number of proposals from underserved institutions
TAB: Institutions/Institution Goals
SECTION: Number of proposals from underserved institutions
Source:
Data Repository: Enterprise Information System (EIS)
Description: EIS is a database maintained by Office of Budget, Finance and Award Management (BFA)
Variable:
Definition: Total number of proposals from underserved Institutions. Institutions categorized as underserved are educational, non-profit, and for-profit domestic entities that receive on average of less than $50 million in federal research funds AND are EITHER classified as Minority-Service Institutions OR located in EPSCoR jurisdictions.
FY23 APG Goal:
FY23 APG Goal line Value generated by the summation of FY20 total Institution Proposals with 10% of FY20 Institution Proposals.
% Change from FY 20 in number of proposals from underserved institutions
TAB: Institutions/Institution Goals
SECTION: % Change from FY 20 in number of proposals from underserved institutions
Source:
Data Repository: Enterprise Information System (EIS)
Description: EIS is a database maintained by Office of Budget, Finance and Award Management (BFA)
Variable:
Definition: Percentage change in proposals from Fiscal year 2020 from underserved institutions. Institutions categorized as underserved are educational, non-profit, and for-profit domestic entities that receive on average of less than $50 million in federal research funds AND are EITHER classified as Minority-Service Institutions OR located in EPSCoR jurisdictions.
FY23 APG Goal:
FY23 APG Goal value generated by the summation of a constant value of 10% respective to FY20 Investigator Proposals.
Proportion of proposals from underserved institutions
TAB: Institutions/Institution Goals
SECTION: Proportion of proposals from underserved institutions
Source:
Data Repository: Enterprise Information System (EIS)
Description: EIS is a database maintained by Office of Budget, Finance and Award Management (BFA)
Variable:
Definition: Proportion of proposals is total number of proposals from underserved institutions divided by total number of proposals. Institutions categorized as underserved are educational, non-profit, and for-profit domestic entities that receive on average of less than $50 million in federal research funds AND are EITHER classified as Minority-Service Institutions OR located in EPSCoR jurisdictions.
FY23 APG Goal:
FY23 APG Goal line Value is generated by adding the baseline FY (in this case FY20) Proportion of Institution Proposals to the 10% of Baseline FY (in this case FY20) Proportion Institution Proposals.
DOCUMENTATION
Agency Priority Goal for FY 2022-2023: Improve representation in the scientific enterprise
Goal statement:
Impact: Improve representation in the scientific enterprise by making changes that will lead to an increase in proposal submissions from underrepresented and underserved applicants and communities.
Achievement: By September 30, 2023, NSF will increase both the number and proportion of proposals received from underrepresented and underserved 1) investigators and 2) institutions by 10 percent over the FY 2020 baselines.
For more information on the APG, visit: https://www.performance.gov/agencies/NSF/apg/goal-1/
Definitions:
Investigators from groups underrepresented in STEM are principal investigators who identify as: (1) women, (2) members of racial or ethnic groups underrepresented in STEM (including African American/Black, American Indian/Alaska Native, Hispanic/Latino, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander), or (3) persons with disabilities.
Institutions categorized as underserved are educational, non-profit, and for-profit domestic entities that receive on average of less than $50 million in federal research funds AND are EITHER classified as Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) or EPSCoR jurisdictions.
Number of proposals is the number of new and renewal requests for funding that received a final award decision in the given fiscal year . Only proposals for competitive awards are included.
Support
For questions and comments, please email [email protected].
January Release Notes (Version 1.0.0)
- Created Agency Priority Goals (APG) Dashboard with APG Investigator Goals tab and APG Institution Goals tab.
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INSTITUTION FACTSHEET DASHBOARD
CODEBOOK
Updated: April 2024
Version 1.0.0
National Science Foundation
This codebook describes the data lineage of the 'Institution Profile', 'Fast Facts', 'Awards by Managing Directorate', 'Trends', 'Largest Active Awards' and 'Most Recent Active Awards' sections of the public dashboard.
For questions and comments, please contact [email protected]
INSTITUTION FACTSHEET
INDEX
| SECTION | DEFINITION |
| Global Data Filters | Data filters that are applied to generate the data for the dashboard. |
| Select Institution Name filter | Select Institution Name filter allows the user to select or enter the Institution Name, based on which the entire dashboard is populated. |
| Institution Profile | Institution Profile section displays the selected Institution Name, City, State, MSI, ERI, and Current EPSCoR State and As of Date. |
| Fast Facts | This section displays the following metrics: Proposals Evaluated, New Award Funded, Funding Rate, Award Obligation, PIs and Co-PIs on Awards |
| Awards by Managing Directorate and Trends | This section displays a treemap showing Awards by Managing Directorate and a stacked bar chart with number of Awards on the bottom and number of Declined Proposals on the top with a trend line showing the Funding Rate |
| Largest Active Awards | This section displays details five largest active awards for the Institution or Managing Directorate selected |
| Most Recent Active Awards | This section displays five most recent active awards for the Institution or managing Directorate selected |
Global Data Filters
Fiscal Year:
Institutions having an award from 2011 to 2024 will be present in the dashboard’s Select Institution Name filter.
Fast Facts and Awards by Managing Directorate and Trends sections are displayed based on the activities in the past five fiscal years (2019 – 2023).
Competitive Proposals:
- Only Competitive Proposals are loaded.
Competitive proposals include full proposals for grants, cooperative agreements, fellowships, and interagency agreements that are new projects, renewals, or accomplishment-based renewals. In addition, competitive proposals and awards include those managed by programs that are majority funded by NSF direct appropriations with the intent of providing information on the decisions that were made with NSF appropriations. Therefore, programs whose predominant source of funding are one of the following are excluded:
- H1b Visa Fees
- Donations
- Deposit Funds
IPA (Intergovernmental Personnel Award) Proposals:
- IPA proposals are excluded
Contract based Awards:
- Contract based awards such as Contract, Contract-BOA/Task Order and Contract Interagency Agreement are excluded
Individual Awardee:
- Individual Awardees are excluded.
Organization:
- Funding rate data is restricted to Managing Organizations in these Directorates:
Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO), Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CSE), Directorate for STEM Education (EDU), Directorate for Engineering (ENG), Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS), Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE), Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP), Office of the Director (O/D), Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
Select Institution Name Filter
A list of institutions having an activity between fiscal years 2011 to 2024 is available for selection.
Based on the Select Institution Name filter selection, the dashboard displays the Institution Name along with the details as mentioned below:
- City, State
- City and State Name pertains to the location of the Institution selected.
- MSI
- NSF maintains following set of indicator variables designed to identify institutions of higher education that serve minority populations or populations underrepresented in STEM.
“Disabled Serving, High African American Enrollment (HAAE), Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), Hispanic Serving, High American Indian Serving, Native Alaskan Serving, Native Hawaiian Serving, Pacific Islander Serving, or Tribal Colleges, Majority Minority Serving and Universities”.
Definitions for these variables originate from federal legislation, most of which are from the Higher Education Act. External data on institutional characteristics and student enrollment sourced from the Department of Education’s Integrate Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) are used to construct these indicators.
- NSF maintains following set of indicator variables designed to identify institutions of higher education that serve minority populations or populations underrepresented in STEM.
- ERI
- The CHIPS and Science Act defines an Emerging Research Institution (ERI) as "an institution of higher education with an established undergraduate or graduate program that has less than $50,000,000 in Federal research expenditures" (see 42 U.S. Code § 18901 - Definitions).
The institutions can be classified as 'Emerging Research Institution' or ‘Non-Emerging Research Institution' or 'Unknown'.
YES/NO status indicates that an Institution qualify for the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). The EPSCoR states displayed are based on the latest EPSCoR designation effect in the past five fiscal years
More information can be found at the link below:
Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) | NSF - National Science Foundation
This section displays Proposals Evaluated, New Awards Funded, Funding Rate, Award Obligation, PIs and Co-PIs on Awards for the past five fiscal years. In other words, if the dashboard is being viewed in 2024, then this section will be referred to as “FY 2019-2023 – Fast Facts”.
SECTION: Fast Facts
METRIC: Proposals Evaluated
Source:
Data Repository: Budget Internet Information System (BIIS)
Dataset: Summary Proposal and Award Information (Funding Rate) by State and Organization
Description: BIIS is a public facing portal for NSF’s funding trend information by NSF organization, awardee institution, and state.
Access Level: Public
Variable:
Definition: Count of new competitive proposals and renewal requests for funding which received a final award decision in the past five fiscal years.
Construction: This metric is calculated by doing a count of all competitive proposals.
Output Type: Integer
Possible values: No limit; depends upon dashboard criteria selected.
Dashboard Filtering Conditions: Institution, Managing Directorate
Note: Due to privacy, statistics with fewer than 10 proposals will not be shown.
SECTION: Fast Facts
METRIC: New Awards Funded
Source:
Data Repository: Budget Internet Information System (BIIS)
Dataset: Summary Proposal and Award Information (Funding Rate) by State and Organization
Description: BIIS is a public facing portal for NSF’s funding trend information by NSF organization, awardee institution, and state.
Access Level: Public
Variable:
Definition: Count of new competitive awards made, in past five fiscal years. These are new, renewal, and accomplishment-based renewal actions.
Construction: This metric is calculated by the summation of awarded proposals.
For more information about NSF’s merit review process see here
Output Type: Integer
Possible values: No limit; depends upon dashboard criteria selected.
Dashboard Filtering Conditions: Institution, Managing Directorate
SECTION: Fast Facts
METRIC: Funding Rate
Source:
Data Repository: Budget Internet Information System (BIIS)
Dataset: Summary Proposal and Award Information (Funding Rate) by State and Organization
Description: BIIS is a public facing portal for NSF’s funding trend information by NSF organization, awardee institution, and state.
Access Level: Public
Variable:
Definition: Count of new competitive awards made divided by the number of competitive proposals acted upon in past five fiscal years.
For more information on the merit review process see here.
Output Type: Integer (Percentage)
Possible values: 0-100%; depends upon dashboard criteria selected.
Dashboard Filtering Conditions: Institution, Managing Directorate
Note: Due to privacy, statistics with fewer than 10 proposals will not be shown.
SECTION: Fast Facts
METRIC: Award Obligations
Source:
Data Repository: Budget Internet Information System (BIIS)
Dataset: Award Summary: by State/Institution
Description: BIIS is a public facing portal for NSF’s funding trend information by NSF organization, awardee institution, and state.
Access Level: Public
Variable:
Definition: Award Obligations are binding agreements that will result in cash outlays, immediately or in the future. For example, funding awarded on a grant or cooperative agreement.
Construction: Award obligations can be calculated by the summation of award obligations in past five fiscal years. Shown in millions of dollars.
Output Type: Numeric
Possible values: No limit; depends upon dashboard criteria selected.
Dashboard Filtering Conditions: Institution, Managing Directorate
SECTION: Fast Facts
METRIC: PIs and Co-PIs on Awards
Source:
Data Repository: Enterprise Information System (EIS: This data source is internal to NSF)
Dataset: Summary Proposal and Award Information (Funding Rate) by State and Organization
Description: EIS is a database maintained by Office of Budget, Finance and Award Management (BFA).
Format: Active Server Pages/SQL Server
Variable:
Definition: Principal Investigators and Co-Principal Investigators who submitted the proposals awarded in past five fiscal years.
Construction: This metric is calculated by doing a distinct count of all the Principal Investigators and Co-Principal Investigators for the awarded proposals.
Output Type: Integer
Possible values: No limit; depends upon dashboard criteria selected.
Dashboard Filtering Conditions: Institution, Managing Directorate
Awards by Managing Directorate and Trends
This section displays graphic visualization of Awards by Managing Directorate and Declined Proposals, Awards Funding Rate metrics for the past five fiscal years. In other words, if the dashboard is being viewed in 2024, then this section will be referred to as “FY 2019-2023 - Awards by Managing Directorate and Trends”.
Awards by Managing Directorate
SECTION: Awards by Managing Directorate and Trends
METRIC: Awards by Managing Directorate
Source:
Data Repository: Budget Internet Information System (BIIS)
Dataset: Summary Proposal and Award Information (Funding Rate) by State and Organization
Description: BIIS is a public facing portal for NSF’s funding trend information by NSF organization, awardee institution, and state.
Access Level: Public
Variable:
Definition: A treemap displaying number of Awards associated with a Managing Directorate in the past five fiscal years. Source of data for Awards is identical to New Awards Funded metric in 'Fast Facts' section of the codebook.
Output Type: Integer
Possible values: No limit; depends upon dashboard criteria selected.
Dashboard Filtering Conditions: Institution, Managing Directorate
SECTION: Awards by Managing Directorate and T rends
METRIC: Trends
Source:
Data Repository: Budget Internet Information System (BIIS)
Dataset: Summary Proposal and Award Information (Funding Rate) by State and Organization
Description: BIIS is a public facing portal for NSF’s funding trend information by NSF organization, awardee institution, and state.
Access Level: Public
Variable:
Definition: A stacked bar chart showing number of Declined Proposals and Awards with Funding Rate as a trendline in past five fiscal years.
Declined proposals are the proposals that are evaluated but not awarded. Source of data for Awards and Funding Rate, is identical to New Awards Funded and Funding Rate metrics respectively in 'Fast Facts' section of the codebook.
Output Type: Integer
Possible values: No limit; depends upon dashboard criteria selected.
Dashboard Filtering Conditions: Institution, Managing Directorate
Source:
Data Repository: Budget Internet Information System (BIIS)
Dataset: Summary Proposal and Award Information (Funding Rate) by State and Organization
Description: BIIS is a public facing portal for NSF’s funding trend information by NSF organization, awardee institution, and state.
Access Level: Public
Variable:
Definition: This section displays top five active awards with largest Total Intended Award Amount with following details: Award ID, Award Title, Award Date, Directorate, Total Intended Award Amount.
If more than two awards have the same Total Intended Award Amount, then the award with latest Award Date is displayed.
Output: Details of the five largest active awards.
Possible values: No limit; depends upon dashboard criteria selected.
Dashboard Filtering Conditions: Institution, Managing Directorate
Data Repository: Budget Internet Information System (BIIS)
Dataset: Summary Proposal and Award Information (Funding Rate) by State and Organization
Description: BIIS is a public facing portal for NSF’s funding trend information by NSF organization, awardee institution, and state.
Access Level: Public
Variable:
Definition: This section displays top five most recent active awards with following details: Award ID, Award Title, Award Date, Directorate, Total Intended Award Amount.
If more than two awards have the same Award Date, then the award with the larger Total Intended Award Amount is displayed.
Output: Details of the five most recent active awards.
Possible values: No limit; depends upon dashboard criteria selected.
Dashboard Filtering Conditions: Institution, Managing Directorate