Which US agencies fund basic research?
November 19, 2011 – 2:48 pmLots of them, but mostly HHS, which I assume is mostly NIH. NSF comes in a not-so-close second.
Basic research funding, in billions of dollars (2008):
HHS 16.0
NSF 3.7
DOE 3.2
DOD 1.5
NASA 1.3
USDA 1.0
Other 0.8
Total 27.6
The US budget is around 3 trillion, so this is about 1% of total US spending.
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