Some lawmakers and the Trump administration have criticized the government’s long-standing model for reimbursing universities ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has issued a grants policy statement regarding a change in indirect cost rates due to a recent executive order. The NIH is implementing a standardized 15% ...

The Gates Foundation, for example, pays a 10% rate for indirect costs, while the Carnegie Corporation and John Templeton Foundation each pay 15% of indirect costs for research.

The National Institutes of Health announced major reductions to indirect costs for research funding Feb. 7 in a move many experts say would cause serious harm to lifesaving medical ...

NIH’s Supplemental Guidance purportedly supersedes existing indirect cost rates even if there was a negotiated rate in place: effective February 10, for “any new grant issued, and for all ...

As of Monday, the NIH’s new policy to cap indirect cost reimbursement rates to 15 percent of a given grant, regardless of institution location, scale, or initiative, is in effect.

For years, limitations on indirect cost rates varied among government agencies; before 1955, the NIH limited its rate to 8 percent, according to the National Science Foundation.

(4) An approved federally recognized indirect cost rate negotiated between the subrecipient and the Federal Government." If a "subrecipient already has a negotiated F&A rate with the federal ...

The National Science Foundation is implementing a new policy capping indirect cost rates at 15% for all new grants and cooperative agreements awarded to institutions of higher education, effective ...

The 15% indirect cost rate cap policy will apply to all current grants "for go forward expenses from Feb. 10, 2025, forward, as well as for all new grants issued.