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MO, KS Institutions at Risk of Not Receiving NIH Grants

Trump administration could cut and limit funding to institutions which receive grants from the National Institutes of Health. Photo credit: Will Crow.

Posted February 12, 2025

Universities and hospitals in Missouri and Kansas could lose funding if the Trump administration successfully reduces the indirect cost limit for grant recipients from the National Institutes of Health.

On Monday, a federal judge placed a temporary restraining order blocking the cuts in response to a lawsuit joined by 22 states, which does not include Missouri or Kansas. President Trump and his administration plan to cap research funding for indirect costs to 15% of grants. National Institutes of Health (NIH) recipients claimed their entities spend as much as 30% of their grant on indirect costs to support their research, the Missouri Independent reported Tuesday.

For the fiscal year 2024, the NIH issued 1,553 grants worth $901 million to universities and hospitals in Missouri, while across state lines, the organization also issued 264 grants worth $140.7 million in Kansas.

These Kansas City City area institutions are at risk of not receiving NIH funding in the fiscal year 2025:

Organization Awards Total Funding
Children’s Mercy Kansas City 5 $1,715,996
Stowers Institute for Medical Research 4 $1,545,701
Flowpoint Medical Inc. 1 $324,836
International Society of Exposure Science 1 $10,000
University of Kansas Medical Center 176 $97,848,393

Other institutions include universities like the University of Missouri, Columbia with 24 grants amounting to $9,850,233 as well as the University of Missouri, Saint Louis with one grant worth $574,021. The University of Kansas, Lawrence has 55 grants worth $23,580,982, while the University of Wichita has 2 grants worth $2,303,495.

The largest recipient of NIH grants in the Missouri region is Washington University in Saint Louis. The institution has 175 grants worth $81,140,430 in fiscal 2025. A far cry compared to the university’s NIH funding from fiscal 2024 which had 1,192 grants worth $732,416,824.