Fig. 2

Illustrative performance radar charts of selected organizations based on six actionable measures and the resulting NIH funding increases: (a) well-balanced fast grower research university doing well by most measures; (b) fast grower, non-Carnegie research organization showing a large jump in talent pool by internally raised new investigators ; (c) Carnegie fast grower research university showing major increase in the average grant budget size per PI; and (d) non-Carnegie fast grower research organization showing both new PIs and major increase in the average grant budget size per PI (Based on data from the NIH RePORTER and RePORT databases between fiscal years 2012–2021).