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Federal Funding Updates

The UH Division of Research will continue to update this webpage with resources for recent and upcoming changes to proposals, awards, and agency operations during the federal administration transition. Please submit any questions pertaining to these federal funding updates through the question box at the bottom of this page.

: For up-to-date information on White House Executive Orders

The White House issued , stating that "[w]ithin 30 days of the date of this order, the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP Director) shall, in consultation with the heads of relevant agencies, issue guidance for agencies on implementation of 'Gold Standard Science' in the conduct and management of their respective scientific activities." 

AAAS provides an  and  to track science appropriations.

On Friday, May 30, the Trump administration released the . The appendix follows the May 2 release of the President鈥檚  on discretionary funding levels for fiscal year (FY) 2026 (鈥淪kinny Budget鈥�). Individual agencies have provided more details:
To learn more about the budget process, visit AAAS's Understanding the Process website with helpful resources:

Proposals

Announcements for funding opportunities may be revoked or changed. As you are preparing to submit a proposal, check back frequently whether the announcement is still available and/or has changed.

The changes we are currently seeing may affect funding announcements, proposal deadlines, review committee meeting schedules, award reporting requirements, and other grant-related activities. However, plan for currently announced proposal deadlines and do not assume they will be changed.

Awards

For federal projects already funded, continue your work as planned unless you receive a stop work order from your sponsor. Report any official communications from your sponsor that may impact your award to doraward@central.uh.edu. Since agencies have started to pause review panels, we expect delays in new awards as agencies work to resume operations.

Review your grant agreement. Closely monitor your award budget. Anticipated funding is subject to availability of funding and is not guaranteed. 

Agency Updates

An Executive Order "" was issued on February 26, 2025 that requires each agency, in consultation with the agency's DOGE Team Lead, to 鈥渞eview all existing covered contracts and grants and, where appropriate and consistent with applicable law, terminate or modify (including through renegotiation) such covered contracts and grants to reduce overall Federal spending or reallocate spending to promote efficiency and advance the policies of my Administration. This process shall commence immediately and shall prioritize the review of funds disbursed under covered contracts and grants to educational institutions (emphasis added) and foreign entities for waste, fraud, and abuse. Each Agency Head shall complete this review within 30 days of the date of this order."

  • NEW If faculty receive instructions from a DoD directorate to submit or resubmit a proposal using the 15% indirect cost rate, please provide the language from the  that clarifies the cap is not yet in effect and is still under development.
  • (Inside Higher Ed, May 19, 2025)
  • NEW A federal judge granted a  in the  that challenged the U.S. Department of Energy's April 11 policy on imposing a 15% IDC rate. (April 16, 2025)
  •  (April 11, 2025)
  • Memo 鈥� January 20, 2025
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  • (Inside Higher Ed: February 18, 2025)
  • (Politico: February 10, 2025)
  • NEW  reported that the EPA ordered staff to cancel research grants (Science: April 21, 2025)
  • (February 3, 2025) HRSA PIs should have received the "Notice of Court Order," which states that "Federal agencies cannot pause, freeze, impede, block, cancel, or terminate any awards or obligations on the basis of the OMB Memo, or on the basis of the President鈥檚 recently issued Executive Orders." Continue your work as planned unless you receive a stop work order (from either the agency or the prime recipient) specific to an award.  
  • NEW Staff, the federal agency focused on awarding grants for libraries and museums, have been put on administrative leave. UH Libraries and other groups (Public Art, possibly Blaffer Art Museum) have received funding from IMLS in the past. (NPR: March 31)
  • NEW The  from fiscal years 2021-2025 and is not planning on new awards in fiscal year 2025. (NPR: April 3)
  • NEW NIH has . All requests for NCEs must now be submitted for prior approval. (May 7, 2025)
  • : Effective with the date of this notice and until the details of the new foreign collaboration award structure are released, NIH will not issue awards to domestic or foreign entities (new, renewal or non-competing continuation), that include a subaward to a foreign entity. Additionally, NIH will no longer accept prior approval requests to add a new foreign component or subaward to an ongoing project. (May 1, 2025)
  • The  will now take effect July 1, 2025 (moved up from December 31, 2025). This means that Author Accepted Manuscripts must be submitted to PubMed Central upon acceptance and be publicly available without embargo on the official date of publication.  
  • NEW NSF posted an , which is updated frequently. 
  • NEW The 2025 NSF  and the , effective May 19, 2025, include a section on Non-discrimination Statutes (Section 35), which addresses prohibitions on promoting DEI and Israel-related boycotts.  
  • . Effective May 5, 2025, NSF will apply a standard indirect cost rate not to exceed 15% to all grants and cooperative agreements awarded to IHEs for which indirect costs are allowable.

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FAQs

Does the 15% IDC rate apply to NIH proposal budgets as well as current awards?

We advise using the rate requested in the RFP, as the announcement made no reference to pending proposal submissions. NIH may request a revised budget, or simply reduce the awarded budget, when an award is made at the 15% IDC rate. (A judge issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) on February 11, which will be in effect until further order, meaning that the NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates (NOT-OD-25-068) cannot be implemented until the TRO is lifted.)

I want to start purchasing equipment on a current award. If the award is canceled, I would not be able to pay for the equipment. Should I include a contingency clause for federal funding adjustment, that is, a clause that would give UH the right to cancel the order prior to fulfillment or return the equipment?

Inserting the financial contingency language would be inappropriate and probably unenforceable legally. Our suggestion is to hold off on entering into financial commitments that may be undercut by losses of funding. If we have no choice but to enter into such a commitment it has to be with a buyer beware approach on UH's part.

Updated June 1, 2025