What is the NIH modular budget?
The modular budget is an NIH specific budget concept relating to research grant submission. The budgets are created in modules of $25,000 up to $250,000 total direct costs in each budget period.
The cap of $250,000 in direct costs has been in place since NIH established the modular budget policy. Alternatively, investigators can request more than $250,000 in direct costs by submitting a detailed non-modular budget with their R01 application.
Generally, you must use the R&R Budget Form if you are applying for more than $250,000 per budget period in direct costs, and you must use the Modular Budget Form if you are applying for less than $250,000. However, some grant mechanisms or programs (e.g., training grants) may require other budget forms to be used.
The Modular Grant concept establishes specific modules or increments in which direct costs must be requested as well as a maximum level for requested budgets under the Modular Grant model.
Congress has given the National Institutes of Health (NIH) an essentially flat budget of $47.1 billion, in a final 2024 spending bill that lawmakers are expected to approve in time to avert a partial government shutdown this weekend.
NIH modular budgets are used for R01, R03, R15, R21, and R34 applications requesting $250,000 or less in annual direct costs and are budgeted in $25,000 increments.
Generally, the Modular Budget Form is applicable only to research applications from domestic organizations that are requesting $250,000 or less per budget period in direct costs, but there are exceptions.
Modular versus Detailed Budgets
The application forms package associated with most NIH funding opportunities includes two optional budget forms—(1) R&R Budget Form; and, (2) PHS 398 Modular Budget Form. NIH applications will include either the R&R Budget Form or the PHS 398 Modular Budget Form, but not both.
Repair & Replacement Reserves (R&R)
The direct salary for individuals under NIH grant and cooperative agreement awards cannot exceed “Executive Level II” of the Federal Executive pay scale. Effective January 1, 2024, the salary limitation for Executive Level II is $221,900. The previous cap was $212,100.
How do you calculate modular budget?
- Prepare a detailed line-item budget, including annual escalation of costs.
- Total all the direct costs for the life of the project, excluding subcontract F&A.
- Divide the total direct costs by number of project years.
- Round up to the next $25,000 module.
Inflationary increases for future year commitments are not permitted.
Effective January 1, 2024, the Executive Level II salary cap level is $221,900. NIH announced this level and provided example salary calculations in a January 29, 2024, Guide notice.
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In fiscal year 2021, the average NIAID R01 award received $374,391 in annual direct costs. Remember, above all, your budget request must reflect the actual needs of your proposed project.
Normally, R01-type projects are mature ideas with preliminary data supporting a hypothesis. R21 projects are usually high-risk/high-reward and require a high degree of innovation.
General public. One of the goals of the NIH is to "expand the base in medical and associated sciences in order to ensure a continued high return on the public investment in research." Taxpayer dollars funding NIH are from the taxpayers, making them the primary beneficiaries of advances in research.
Budget Information: R21s use the module budget (in $25,000 modules). The total project period may not exceed two years. Direct costs: limited to $275,000 over two-year period. No more than $200,000 in direct costs are allowed in any single year.
NCI receives its budget from the United States Congress as part of the federal budget process through appropriations for the Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Office of Budget and Finance supports the NCI director and senior NCI staff on budget-related activities.
What is a Type 7 NIH grant?
| Number Type | Stage |
|---|---|
| Type 7 | Change of Recipient or Training Institution |
| Type 8 | Change of Institute or Center |
| Type 9 | Change of Institute or Center |
| * Resubmission | |
Computers are viewed as “general use” business items and should not be charged directly to a federal award unless justified for a specific research/sponsored program purpose.
There are four common types of budgets that companies use: (1) incremental, (2) activity-based, (3) value proposition, and (4) zero-based. These four budgeting methods each have their own advantages and disadvantages, which will be discussed in more detail in this guide.
The 7 different types of budgeting used by companies are strategic plan budget, cash budget, master budget, labor budget, capital budget, financial budget, operating budget.
Investigator-initiated applications for NIH funding are evaluated by peer review groups composed of scientists from outside the NIH. The peer review group evaluates the scientific and technical merit of the proposed research. These evaluations are used by the individual Institutes to determine which projects to fund.
