← LeaderboardsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
University Of Kentucky Research Foundation
Lexington, KY
$439,043,563
Total funding
995
Grants
Funding over time
peak $35.7M · FY2005–26$50M$37.5M$25M$12.5M$0
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Funding mix
By agency
NSF$436,904,630 · 993
DOE$2,138,933 · 2
By mechanism
—$439,043,563 · 995
Investigators at University Of Kentucky Research Foundation
InvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Exposure= the full size of every grant they're on ($1M each).
Rising Stars
First grant in the last 5 yrs
Not enough data
Emerging Leaders
6–10 yrs in
Not enough data
All-Time
Most funded here, all years
Not enough data
Largest grants
Appalachian Mathematics and Science Partnership$25,166,890
· FY2002 · EDU
RII Track-1: Kentucky Advanced Manufacturing Partnership for Enhanced Robotics and Structures$20,000,000
· FY2019 · O/D
Powering the Kentucky Bioeconomy for a Sustainable Future$20,000,000
· FY2014 · O/D
Mid-scale RI-1 (M1:IP): EduceLab: Infrastructure for Next-Generation Heritage Science$14,595,474
· FY2021 · CSE
Transforming Kentucky's New Economy$13,738,500
· FY2008 · O/D
Building Kentucky's New Economy with EPSCoR$9,250,000
· FY2005 · O/D
Kentucky EPSCoR$9,000,000
· FY2002 · O/D
PIPP Phase II: Environmental Surveillance for Assessing Pathogen Emergence (ESCAPE)$5,599,998
· FY2024 · BIO
RII Track-2 FEC: Data-Enabled Discovery and Design to Transform Liquid-Based Energy Storage (D3TaLES)$3,979,525
· FY2020 · O/D
Collaborative Research: Cyberinfrastructure for a Virtual Observatory and Ecological Informatics System (VOEIS)$3,000,000
· FY2009 · O/D
NRT: IN FElloWS & an Academy of Innovators at the Nexus of Food, Energy & Water Systems$2,998,456
· FY2019 · EDU
Molecular Structure and Microstructure of PM2.5 Derived from Stationary and Mobile Fossil Fuel Sources$2,710,000
· FY2000 · MPS
LSAMP: KY-WV Mid-Level Alliance$2,500,000
· FY2013 · EDU
LSAMP: Kentucky - West Virginia Alliance for Minority Participation$2,447,261
· FY2006 · EDU
MRI: Acquisition of the Kentucky Research Informatics Cloud (KyRIC)$2,240,000
· FY2016 · CSE
Graduate Research Fellowships Program (GRFP)$2,083,833
· FY2012 · EDU
LEAP-HI: Advancing Precision Neighborhood Scale Weather Forecasting with Autonomous Aircraft Systems and Adaptive Microscale Models$2,000,000
· FY2025 · ENG
Recruiting, Retaining, and Graduating Appalachian and Minority Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Majors ( AMSTEMM)$1,998,996
· FY2005 · EDU
Assessing How Distance Learning for Teachers Can Enable Inquiry Science in Rural Classrooms$1,998,833
· FY2005 · EDU
EFRI-HyBi: Lignin Deconstruction for the Production of Liquid Fuels$1,984,322
· FY2009 · ENG