NIH P01 Awards: Award History FY2022 to FY2026

For the full program guide on structure, budgets, and fit, see the NIH P01 program project grant guide. This page covers the award data. To compare other NIH routes, use the free NIH grants search.

According to the NIH P01 activity code page (opens in a new tab), the P01 supports "a broadly based, multidisciplinary, often long-term research program." In practice, that means one award that funds several linked research projects plus shared cores under one program director.

Grantsights analysis of 1,738 P01 parent records from FY2022 through FY2026 shows a small, stable, and concentrated program. NIH funds 328 to 362 P01s in any given year, makes 32 to 47 new ones, and puts more than 90% of them in 4 institutes. The FY2026 jump to 47 new awards came almost entirely from NIAID.

New P01 Awards By Fiscal Year, FY2022 To FY2026

NIH RePORTER shows 47 new P01 awards in FY2026, the most in this 5-year window and 47% more than the 32 in FY2025, according to the November 2, 2026 Grantsights pull.

The rest of each year's count is mostly non-competing continuations (type 5): 236 in FY2026. Revisions and administrative changes make up the remainder.

Two things stand out. First, the active count fell from 362 to 328 between FY2022 and FY2025 before recovering to 341. Second, the money per award kept rising. The median across all 341 active P01s reached $2,344,263 in FY2026, up from $2,049,215 in FY2022, and the middle half of active awards ran from $1,791,094 to $2,729,322.

Direct costs tell a similar story. The median first-year direct cost for new FY2026 awards was $1,659,487, and the middle half ran from $1,486,069 to $1,959,483. For comparison, NHLBI's PAR-24-065 (opens in a new tab), now expired, capped a standard application at $1,515,000 in direct costs a year.

One difference from smaller NIH grants: no new P01 from FY2023 through FY2026 was paid for several years up front. Every one had a budget period of about a year. In FY2022, 5 new P01s were multi-year funded, which is why that year's largest new award, at the University of Washington through NIAID, reached $9,065,441.

Which NIH Institutes Fund P01 Grants

NIAID held 117 of the 341 active FY2026 P01s, up from 76 in FY2022, according to NIH RePORTER data pulled November 2, 2026. It passed NCI for the first time in this window.

NIAID's rise is real. In FY2026 it made 26 of the 47 new P01 awards: 11 under its investigator-initiated notice, PAR-22-225, and 14 under institute-specific requests for applications (RFAs). NCI made 11 new awards and NHLBI 7.

The other direction matters just as much. NIA's active P01s fell from 59 to 42 in 5 years and it made only 1 new P01 in each of FY2023, FY2025, and FY2026. NIAAA went from 11 to 1, and NIDDK from 9 to none. A red flag for any team: a P01 idea aimed at an institute that has stopped making new P01s is a long shot, whatever the science.

Grantsights checked each new FY2026 award's opportunity number against its NIH notice:

According to PAR-23-059 (opens in a new tab), NCI's program project notice required at least 3 research projects plus an administrative core. According to PAR-22-225 (opens in a new tab), NIAID's required at least 2. Those rules don't carry over automatically to the new parent notice.

Top States And Schools For NIH P01 Awards

New York led new P01 awards from FY2022 through FY2026 with 31, ahead of California with 29 and Massachusetts with 23, according to the Grantsights pull of 195 new P01 awards from NIH RePORTER.

The P01 is concentrated in a way most NIH grants aren't. In FY2026, the 341 active P01s sat at just 114 organizations in 33 states, and the top 10 organizations held 105 of them, 31%. For example, Washington University in St. Louis held 13 P01s worth $33.6 million and made 4 of the 47 new FY2026 awards, the most of any school.

Specifically, the largest new FY2026 award went to the University of Missouri-Columbia, $3,987,706 through NIAID, followed by 2 Weill Cornell awards at $3,775,233 and $3,589,323 and a Duke University award at $3,608,544, all NIAID.

How Big A P01 Really Is

The median FY2026 P01 parent award had 6 subproject and core records under it, according to the Grantsights count of 1,905 FY2026 subproject records across 321 P01s.

That number explains the scale. A P01 isn't one large R01; it's a program of several linked research projects plus administrative and scientific cores. The new parent notice, PA-27-061 (opens in a new tab), says research projects are "required; minimum of 2, maximum of 5," with a maximum project period of 5 years.

A common mistake is reading P01 dollar totals from a RePORTER search without filtering subprojects. The builder file Grantsights saved for this page counts every record, so it shows $1.53 billion for FY2026. The real P01 total, counting each program once, is $775.4 million.

The second common mistake is to underestimate the institutional cost. A P01 has 1 overall budget, but each project leader, core director, and administrative core needs effort, space, and a written role. Institutes set their own minimum effort and structure rules. The NIH P01 program project grant guide walks through those rules institute by institute.

What NIH RePORTER Doesn't Tell You About P01 Grants

NIH RePORTER lists 341 active P01s in FY2026, but it leaves out at least 4 things a team needs before it commits.

The success rate is the first gap. RePORTER lists awards, not applications, so no count on this page can be turned into a P01 payline or success rate. For how institutes now make funding decisions, see NIH paylines explained.

Institute willingness is the second. The P01 activity code page (opens in a new tab) lists 12 organizations on at least one active P01 notice, but the award data shows some of them haven't funded a new P01 in years. Only a program officer can say whether an institute will fund a new P01 in your area this cycle.

The third gap is structure. RePORTER shows how many components a P01 has, but not how reviewers judged the integration between them. NIH's own definition stresses a broad, linked program, and a set of loosely related R01s under one cover is a red flag in review.

The fourth gap is timing. The FY2026 rise to 47 new awards came under notices that have since expired. PA-27-061 is new, so no awards under it appear in RePORTER yet, and the first round of data won't show up until FY2027 awards are made.

The Current P01 Routes: Notices And Dates

The parent P01 notice lists 10 participating institutes and its first due date is November 20, 2026, according to PA-27-061 (opens in a new tab), posted October 14, 2026.

According to PA-27-061, NHLBI doesn't support clinical trials under the parent notice, and institutes that don't participate won't consider applications. Grantsights compared this list with the award data: NIDDK, NICHD, and NIMH, which all funded P01s in this window, aren't on the parent notice's participant list. NIDDK had no active P01s in FY2024 through FY2026.

Before drafting, check 3 things:

If the projects could stand alone, don't apply for a P01. A set of R01s or a multi-PI R01 is better than a P01 here, because each R01 stands on its own in review instead of being judged on how well 2 to 5 projects fit together. The NIH R01 award history shows how many more of those NIH makes. Center-scale infrastructure may fit a P30 instead; see the NCI Cancer Center Support Grant guide.

3 Takeaways From 1,738 P01 Records

According to NIH RePORTER data pulled November 2, 2026, there were 1,738 P01 parent records from FY2022 through FY2026, and 195 of them were new awards.

First, the P01 is a big-institution, big-institute program. Four institutes hold 93% of active P01s, and 114 organizations hold all of them.

Second, the money per award is rising while the count holds. The median new award grew from $2,331,222 in FY2022 to $2,554,662 in FY2026.

Third, the route is changing. The NCI, NIAID, and NHLBI notices that produced most recent awards have expired, and the new parent notice and NIAID's PAR-27-082 now carry the program. Teams aiming at NIAID, NCI, or NHLBI should confirm their route before the first PA-27-061 due date.

For other NIH award data, compare the NIH R35 MIRA award history and the NIH R21 award history.

Sources

• NIH P01 activity code page - grants.nih.gov (opens in a new tab)
• PA-27-061, Parent P01 (clinical trial optional), full announcement - grants.gov (opens in a new tab)
• PA-27-061 listing - simpler.grants.gov (opens in a new tab)
• PAR-27-082, NIAID P01 - simpler.grants.gov (opens in a new tab)
• PAR-22-225, NIAID P01 (expired) - grants.nih.gov (opens in a new tab)
• PAR-23-059, NCI P01 (expired) - grants.nih.gov (opens in a new tab)
• PAR-24-065, NHLBI P01 (expired) - grants.nih.gov (opens in a new tab)
• NIH RePORTER, pulled November 2, 2026 - reporter.nih.gov (opens in a new tab)

Related Guides

• NIH P01 program project grant guide
• NIH R01 award history
• NIH R21 award history
• NIH R35 MIRA award history
• NIH paylines explained
• NCI Cancer Center Support Grant (P30) guide
• NIH grants complete guide