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.

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.

The University of Chicago, along with three academic associations and 12 other institutions of higher education, filed a lawsuit on May 5 seeking to block the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) ...