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NSF FUNDING PROFILE 



Approximately half of the awards that are supported in a particular fiscal year are competitively 

 reviewed in that year through NSF's merit review process The other awards are continuations of 

 projects that were competitively reviewed in a prior year The funding rate is the number of 

 competitive awards made during a year as a percentage of total proposals competitively reviewed 

 It indicates the probability of winning an award when submitting proposals to NSF 



The annualized award size displays the annual level of support provided to awardees by dividing 

 the total dollars of each award by the number of years over which it extends Both the average 

 and the median annualized award size for competitively reviewed awards are shown 



Average duration is the length of the award in years The duration calculation is limited to 

 research projects and excludes other categories of awards which fund infrastructure-type 

 activities such as equipment and conference awards which do not require multi-year support. 



The Quantitative Data Tables, provided under a separate tab, are based on all proposals and 

 awards, including competitive awards, contracts, cooperative agreements, supplements and 

 amendments to existing grants and contracts 



NSF FUNDING PROFILE 



i for Research Projects only Excludes facilities 



