National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities

The National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), a sub-agency of the National Institutes of Health within the Department of Health and Human Services, funds research and capacity-building programs to reduce health disparities and advance health equity across vulnerable and underrepresented populations. NIMHD operates as a grants-dominant funder rather than a contracting office, with a small supplementary contracting footprint supporting program administration and research infrastructure.

NIMHD has awarded 227 federal contracts totaling $113.9 million in combined potential value since 2014, with $87.4 million obligated to date. Contract volume has declined steadily over the last five years: 30 awards in 2022, 27 in 2023, 23 in 2024, 14 in 2025, and 9 year-to-date in 2026. The contractor base is highly fragmented, with 133 distinct primes over the portfolio history. Over the last five years, The Bizzell Group LLC leads by award count with eight awards ($414 thousand combined potential value), followed by Contemporaries, Inc. with six awards ($1.3 million), and Govsmart, Inc. with three awards ($389 thousand). By combined potential value, Information Management Services, Inc. ranks first with two awards worth $5.8 million, while Carl Zeiss Microscopy, LLC holds $2.6 million across two awards. The top five primes by award count cover only 20 percent of recent awards, and the top five by potential value account for 10 percent of combined potential value, reflecting a dispersed supplier base. Ninety percent of awards carry no set-aside designation; the remaining ten percent split among small-business set-asides (5 percent), woman-owned small business (3 percent), 8(a) sole source (2 percent), and service-disabled veteran-owned small business sole source (less than 1 percent).

NIMHD has obligated $8.27 billion in federal grant dollars across 1,651 awards since 1986, with a most recent grant award dated September 3, 2026. Grant volume contracted sharply in 2025 with 50 awards, then recovered to 89 awards year-to-date in 2026 compared to 226 in 2022, 187 in 2023, and 166 in 2024. Research universities dominate the recipient base. The Johns Hopkins University, Yale University, Columbia University, New York University, and the University of Chicago collectively hold 11 percent of recent awards by count, with Columbia University leading on federal dollars obligated at $96.8 million across 14 awards. The top five recipients by federal dollars obligated account for just 5 percent of total federal dollars across the portfolio, indicating a fragmented grant landscape despite concentration at the research-university tier. Nearly all funding is delivered as Project Grants (93 percent of awards); Cooperative Agreements comprise 7 percent.

No recent contract opportunities or grant opportunities are recorded against NIMHD in the source data.