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Basic Scientific Research

Basic Scientific Research recorded $460.2 million of federal assistance obligations under this Assistance Listing in fiscal year 2026, which ranks 185 of 1,888 assistance programs with a figure in FY2026.

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Identifiers

Assistance Listing
12.431

The record

Reported figures for Basic Scientific Research, each linked to its source
Obligated · FY2026Assistance only — grants, loans, direct payments and insurance. Contracts carry no Assistance Listing number and are not in this figure.$460,161,266USD
Rank among assistance programs · FY2026185 of 1,888by obligations
Share of all assistance programs · FY2026Of $4.1 trillion, which is what every assistance program the publisher reported obligated in FY2026 — not the federal total, which is larger.0.0%percent

By fiscal year

Basic Scientific Research: federal assistance obligations under this Assistance Listing, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearObligated
FY2022$567,836,151
FY2023$641,692,320
FY2024$541,460,253
FY2025$559,450,351
FY2026$460,161,266

The publisher holds five fiscal years of this breakdown. A year missing from this table is a year this assistance program was not reported in, not a year of no spending.

The nearest ranks

assistance programs ranked nearest Basic Scientific Research, FY2026
Rankassistance programObligated
182Veterans Housing Direct Loans for Certain Disabled Veterans$470,428,263
183Engineering$464,787,513
184Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Research$460,776,391
186VA Supportive Services for Veteran Families Program$454,959,327
187Food for Peace, Title II Emergency$451,998,532
188Congressionally Mandated Projects$444,980,865

What this data cannot show

  • The fiscal year is not over. These are obligations recorded so far, and a figure here is not comparable with a full year.
  • An obligation is a binding commitment to pay, not money paid. Outlays are reported separately and the two are never equal in the same year.
  • Assistance only — grants, loans, direct payments and insurance. Contracts carry no Assistance Listing number and are not in this figure.
  • This page is built from the database rather than from the committed extract, so it covers every assistance program the publisher reported and not only the largest hundred the ranking names. Both come from the same ingest on the date above.

Sources

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