Harvard’s indirect cost rate — the percent of federal funding that covers administrative costs of research — is currently 69 percent, the largest of any Ivy League school.

The Department of Defense is planning to cap indirect cost reimbursement rates for higher education institutions at 15 percent, according to a May 14 memo signed by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

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 retroactive application of the 15% indirect cost rate to existing grants violates this requirement that notices include information about funding restrictions in order to allow applicants to ...

How, when and why did indirect costs originate as a separate bucket from direct costs? Why and how has the rate increased since the 1940s, when it was just 8 percent? How are indirect costs ...

The University filed a joint suit against the National Science Foundation after the agency announced it would reduce funding for indirect costs of research to a universal 15 percent rate, down from a ...

On May 2, 2025, the National Science Foundation (“NSF”) issued a “Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate” (NSF 25-034) (hereinafter “Policy Notice”) adopting ...

The US National Institutes of Health is lowering the maximum “indirect cost rate” that research institutions can charge the government, the agency said late Friday – a move that scientists ...

Financial and Compliance Implications Accurate Classification is Critical: Misclassifying departmental research as organized research (or vice versa) can distort the indirect (F&A) rate, leading to ...

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.

Two months after the National Institutes of Health unilaterally capped indirect research cost reimbursement rates at 15 percent—which a federal judge has permanently blocked—the Department of Energy ...