Federal Funding Updates 2025
The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs is actively tracking updates from the federal government, including Executive Orders, communications, and guidance from federal agencies and organizations such as the American Council on Education (ACE), the Council on Government Relations (COGR), and the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU).
The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs will inform the University community of any changes through this webpage, that may impact research, training programs, federal contracts, and notices of funding opportunities. This webpage will be updated regularly as new information becomes available.
Recommendations For Researchers
- Regularly monitor your obligated budget balances to prevent deficits while awaiting future funding obligations.
- Carefully review your grant agreement terms, especially those concerning funding availability.
- Stay up to date with submission deadlines, as they may change (including deadlines for progress reports and other requirements).
- Prioritize submitting any overdue reports or deliverables. To avoid delays, remain diligent with submission deadlines, milestones, and deliverables.
- Keep an eye on policy announcements from the federal agency managing your grant for updates on funding or compliance requirements.
- Be aware that disruptions may affect your project even if you are a sub-awardee under a prime awardee receiving federal funds (e.g., receiving funds through New Jersey’s state funding portal).
- Unless you receive specific instructions to halt activity, continue your research, scholarship, and grant-related work in accordance with your award terms.
Announcements and Important Updates
TRP - Remessaging Strategies - Guidance for an Evolving Political Landscape (FINAL)
Implementation of New Initiatives and Policies Page Now Available - Frequently Updated
COGR 2025 Administration Transition Information & Resources - Frequently Updated
Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions - Frequently Updated
Updated NIH Policy on Foreign Subawards: NOT-OD-25-104: Updated NIH Policy on Foreign Subawards
NIH has announced that the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy will now go into effect on July 1, 2025:Accelerating Access to Research Results: New Implementation Date for the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy | National Institutes of Health (NIH)
NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders
- 2/2/25: Access to the Award Cash Management Service (ACM$) has been restored and the system is available to accept payment requests as of 12:00 PM ET on February 2, 2025. See the FAQs below for more information.
May 2025 News
Effective Date May 20, 2025 - Deferred Implementation of Indirect Cost Policy for Institutes of Higher Education (IHEs): Applies to all new awards and associated subawards to IHEs. This notice is being issued to all NSF proposers and recipient organizations, Principal Investigators, and Authorized Officials for awareness. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is temporarily pausing implementation of NSF Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate (NSF 25-034) through June 13, when a hearing is scheduled to occur in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts in Association of American Universities, et al. v. National Science Foundation, et al., No. 25-cv-11231. This policy applies to all new awards and associated subawards to IHEs. New NSF awards and associated subawards issued during this pause will not implement NSF 25-034 but will include a term applying NSF 25-034 for the entirety of the award if there is a court decision permitting application of the policy. NSF reserves the right to modify, rescind, or fully implement NSF 25-034 to the entirety of awards and subawards issued to IHEs on or after May 5, 2025 in accordance with applicable legal rulings and administrative procedures.
May 16, 2025: Notice of Early Expiration of Notices of Funding Opportunities Related to the Simplified Review Framework for NIH Research Grant Applications: NIH R16 SuRE (PAR-24-144) and SuRE-First (PAR-24-145) May 28 Deadline Cancelled along with other NIH opportunities.
Changes to Indirect Cost Rate at NSF (as of 5/2/25 - paused as of 5/20/25. See above and note on this link): https://www.nsf.gov/policies/document/indirect-cost-rate
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/arts/national-endowment-for-the-arts-resignations.html
The National Endowment for the Arts Begins Terminating Grants - The New York Times
National Endowment for the Arts cuts off funding, pushes for staff resignations
April 2025 News
NIH blocks researchers in China, Russia and other countries from multiple databases
NSF slashes prestigious PhD fellowship awards by half
NSF, NIH Slash Support for Early-Career Scientists
Higher Education Association Lawsuits Challenge NIH and DOE Cuts to F&A Reimbursement
DOE Puts 15% Cap on Universities’ Indirect Research Costs
National Organizations Announce Joint Effort to Develop a New Indirect Costs Funding Model
- Organizations representing America’s academic, medical, and independent research institutions, along with other relevant experts, have come together to spur the development of a more efficient and transparent model for funding indirect costs on federal research grants
DOGE takes over key website that handles distribution of $500bn in federal grants | The Independent
HS to Restore States’ Public Health Funds to Comply With Order
States sue Trump administration over NIH grant termination
Steep budget cuts and layoffs coming to NSF
Agriculture Department cancels $3 billion grant program for climate-friendly crops
NIH said to have halted awarding of new grants to top universities
Federal Grants Website Gets DOGE’d
NSF halts grant awards while staff do second review
Trump signs order to revamp college accreditation process - The Hill
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
March 2025 News
NIH Announcement on Peer Review Centralization – 3/6/2025
HHS Announces Transformation to Make America Healthy Again
Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave
February 2025 News
NIH Scraps Program to Diversify the Biomedical Workforce, a Longtime Goal of Science
NIH 15% Cap on Indirect Cost Reimbursement - Information & Resources
22 states sue to block Trump cuts to NIH research payments
Trump administration ordered to restore removed CDC and FDA websites
Education Department axes over $600M in grants training teachers on 'divisive ideologies'
Department of Education orders universities to eliminate DEI programs within two weeks
Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies
Department of Education contract cuts spur ‘chaos and confusion’
January 2025 News
Federal Student Aid Guidance Related to Temporary Pause of Federal Financial Assistance Programs
AAU OMB Memo Pausing American Scientific Advancement
DOE Memorandum for All DOE Funding Agreements or Awards
U.S. Department of Education Takes Action to Eliminate DEI
Updates on National Endowment for the Arts FY 2026 Grant Opportunities
Contact Us
If you receive information not included on this page from a funding agency regarding your project's funding, please reach out to the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs at orsp@kean.edu.