FEDERAL PROGRAM · FUNCTION 250
Donations
This account records donations received by the National Science Foundation. NSF says these gifts support cooperative efforts in science, research, and education; the image represents research philanthropy, not a healthcare company or insurance program.
Week starts Monday · YTD starts January 1 · UTC. All-time history is not yet available.
Running totals apply the historical FY2025 pace. They do not measure transactions recorded today.
BEHIND THE ACCOUNT
Where NSF donations go
NSF accepts gifts from individuals and organizations for public purposes authorized by the National Science Foundation Act. NSF’s FY2025 budget request says donations support cooperative efforts in science, research, and education.
- NSF decides whether to accept a donation based in part on public-policy considerations.
- Accepted contributions are gifts to the agency and can support one or more general NSF purposes; they are not automatically tied to a named award.
- This OMB account reports the federal account’s outlays, not a list of donors, recipients, or individual research projects.
How to read the FY2025 amount
OMB reports $16 million in FY2025 outlays for the Donations account. NSF also receives congressional appropriations and other receipts, so this number is only the outlays recorded on this one account—not NSF’s total research spending.
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Official account details
- Official account name
- Donations
- Reporting source
- National Science Foundation
- Bureau
- National Science Foundation
- OMB agency–bureau–account code
- 422-00-8960
- Budget function
- General science and basic research
Five years of reported amounts
Fiscal years end September 30. These are actual net outlays in nominal dollars, using the account structure in OMB’s FY2027 database.
| Fiscal year | Reported amount |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $44,000,000 |
| 2022 | $3,000,000 |
| 2023 | $6,000,000 |
| 2024 | $15,000,000 |
| 2025 | $16,000,000 |
FY2025 outlays were $1,000,000 higher than FY2024 (6.7%). Changes in account coverage, transfers and payment timing can affect the comparison.
Trace this figure to the source workbook
Use Sheet1, column “2025”, rows 5232. Sum these records and multiply by 1,000 to convert the published thousands of dollars to dollars. Each record is included once, including all grant, budget-status and spending-category splits within this function.
How these numbers work
FY2025 actual outlays from OMB’s FY2027 Public Budget Database. Published thousands of dollars are multiplied by 1,000. Records are grouped by agency, bureau and account across budget-status splits. Selected positive-outlay accounts appear once; zero-outlay accounts are omitted, and offsets and other accounts remain in the reconciliation. A running counter applies the historical pace and does not track actual transactions today.
Running amounts apply a constant historical pace: the reported amount divided by every second in FY2025 · October 1, 2024–September 30, 2025, multiplied by elapsed time in the selected range. They illustrate the flow; they do not track actual transactions today. Week starts Monday and YTD starts January 1, in UTC. Dollar increments show motion, not dollar-level measurement accuracy.
“Reported period” restores the original source amounts. This pace model freezes at 2027-01-01 unless a newer official snapshot is imported. These program snapshots have their own reporting periods and coverage, which differ from the national Treasury budget-function counter.
Official sources, versions & audit trail
FY2027 budget database · April 2026 · FY2025 actuals only · Released 2026-04-03
Retrieved 2026-09-28 · Archived source
Version: omb-fy2027-actual2025-v1. Source-file SHA-256 checksums, original observations and the model are included in the audit download. Illustrative images are AI-generated and do not identify actual recipients, facilities or contract work.
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