OVCR Annual Report Fiscal Year 2010 Sponsored Research Funding Funding History
The figures and tables in this section present WU’s funding history over five years, including ARRA stimulus funding where appropriate. Unlike FY09, when the federal ARRA was signed and implemented, and WU received stimulus funding directly from only federal agencies, ARRA stimulus funding in FY10 came also from non-federal organizations that passed federal stimulus dollars through to third-party institutions (such as WU). Figure 1 illustrates the total dollars received by three broad sponsor types: (1) Federal, (2) State/Local/International, and (3) Private.
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Figure 1 Funding History by Sponsor Type – FY06 to FY10 The totals for FY09 and FY10 in Figure 1 above include ARRA stimulus funding. Total sponsored research funding for FY10 reached $706.3M, an increase of 24.5% from FY09 to FY10, and an increase of 29.3% over the five years from FY06 to FY10. To understand how impactful the ARRA stimulus program was on sponsored research, consider that without ARRA the increase from FY09 to FY10 would have been 6.9% and the increase over the fiveyear period FY06 to FY10 would have been 10.1%. (See figure on the following page.) Excluding ARRA dollars from both years, total funding at $601.3M would still have been higher than the FY09 total ($562.7M).
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