Center for Veterinary Medicine

The Food and Drug Administration, a sub-agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, administers grants funding food safety, animal health, and regulatory science research and capacity-building across academic institutions and state agencies. The FDA's grant program has obligated $96.1 million in federal funding across 262 awards since 2012, with activity declining in recent years: 24 awards in 2021, 23 in 2022, 20 in 2023, 11 in 2024, and 9 so far in 2025. The most recent grant award was recorded in September 2025.

Grant recipient concentration is fragmented by count (33% of recent awards concentrated among the top five recipients over the last five years) and highly fragmented by federal-dollar distribution (14% of recent federal dollars obligated to the top five). Iowa State University of Science and Technology leads by award count with 5 awards totaling $4.3 million in federal funding, followed by Cornell University and the University of Illinois, each with 5 awards. Iowa State also ranks first by federal dollars, with the University of Wisconsin System ($2.9 million) and Kansas State University ($2.7 million) placing second and third. The remaining 71 recipients across the portfolio are distributed broadly, reflecting the FDA's reliance on a wide field of academic and state-agency partners. Seventy-six distinct grant recipients have received funding across the portfolio history.

The grant portfolio is overwhelmingly structured as Cooperative Agreements, which comprise 233 awards (89%), with Project Grants accounting for the remaining 29 awards (11%). No recent grant opportunities are recorded in the source.