Investopedia / Paige McLaughlin Overhead is an ongoing business expense not directly attributed to creating a product or service. Companies have numerous expenses. Overhead contains the everyday ...

While the 15% cap on indirect costs proposed by NIH is on par with what most foundations pay, universities have gone along with taking significantly less than their actual overhead costs from ...

Roughly $26 billion went to the actual costs of research and $9 billion was allocated to overhead. Across all NIH grants, taxpayers paid approximately 35% of the research costs in the form of ...

Accounting for indirect costs is a tricky business ... are much higher than other benchmarks, actual and proposed. Various Benchmarks for University Overhead Rates It is also clear that the ...