Discretionary Grant Awards By Major Activity Type

Highlights

The TAGGS uses 16 activity types to describe the nature of the grant being funded. For the purpose of this report, these 16 have been grouped into four major activity types (Research, Services, Training, and Other).

Discretionary Grants by
Major Activity Type
Grant Type Awards Dollars
Research 44,516 $20,309,762,977
Services 10,103 $12,686,444,141
Training 8,623 $2,339,654,779
Other 8,285 $4,812,138,080
TOTAL 71,527 $40,147,999,977

Research (51% of FY 2007 discretionary grant funds and 63% of the number of discretionary awards) : The majority of discretionary awards support traditional research projects by individual investigators, as well as broad based traditional research; multi-disciplinary research programs; general and categorical research centers and research resources; research career programs; and general research support to grantee institutions to strengthen research activities.

Top Research Programs
CFDA Program Name OPDIV Awards Dollars
93.855 HIV Prevention Activities Health Department Based NIH 4,406 $2,352,031,125
93.859 HIV Demonstration, Research, Public and Professional Education Projects NIH 4,480 $1,625,773,813
93.837 Research, Treatment and Education Programs on Lyme Disease in the United States NIH 2,440 $1,282,395,255

Services (32% of FY 2007 discretionary grant funds and 14 % of the number of discretionary awards) : The second largest category of discretionary grant funds in FY 2007 went to support health and/or social services programs (32%, $40.1 billion). This category includes grant programs for the delivery of health services; treatment and rehabilitation programs; education and information programs; and programs for the detection of health problems.

ACF awarded $7.4 billion for social service programs supporting Head Start, runaway and homeless youth, abandoned infants, refugee assistance, low-income energy assistance, food and nutrition, and community services. HRSA awarded $0.8 billion to support health services to homeless populations; community health centers focused on providing services in the most medically underserved areas; and comprehensive care services for children, youth, women and families who are infected with or affected by HIV and/or AIDS. CDC awarded $3.1 million to support health services programs, including those directed at communicable diseases prevention, childhood lead poisoning prevention, and disabilities prevention.

Top Services Programs
CFDA Program Name OPDIV Awards Dollars
*Includes Service Awards only.
93.600 Head Start* ACF 1,720 $6,597,874,645
93.069 Public Health Emergency Preparedness CDC 62 $885,082,759
93.779 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Research, Demonstrations and Evaluations CMS 128 $462,851,195

Training (6.0% of FY 2007 discretionary grant funds and 12% of the number of discretionary awards): Includes research training programs; applied training programs and traineeships; education projects; general educational support to health professions schools; and research career programs. NIH and HRSA awarded most of the training grants (89%) primarily to support training in health professions, but also to support AIDS education and training centers, and interdisciplinary training for health care in rural areas.

Top Training Programs
CFDA Program Name OPDIV Awards Dollars
*Includes Training Awards only.
93.889 National Bioterrorism Hospital Preparedness Program OS/ASPR 79 $458,334,000
93.859 Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biological Chemistry Research* NIH 458 $174,591,491
93.398 Cancer Research Manpower* NIH 685 $133,288,648

Other (12% of FY 2007 discretionary grant funds and 11.3% of the number of discretionary awards): Includes construction projects; grants for the planning and development of health programs and health resources; evaluations; and health infrastructure awards. Relatively few HHS FY 2007 discretionary grant dollars support projects classified in this activity type.

Top Other Programs
CFDA Program Name OPDIV Awards Dollars
*Includes Other Awards only.
93.224 Consolidated Health Centers* HRSA 1,139 $1,770,616,458
93.917 HIV Care Formula Grants HRSA 152 $1,127,372,829
93.914 HIV Emergency Relief Project Grants HRSA 113 $575,888,191