Successor-in-Interest (Type 6 Parent Clinical Trial Optional)
Last verified by NonDilute: 2026-04-29. Official notice and agency instructions control.
If your organization just won an NIH grant and you're moving to a new institution, use this process to transfer the award rather than lose it.
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What this is
The NIH Successor-in-Interest (Type 6 Parent Clinical Trial Optional) NOFO allows current NIH grant recipients to request a change of recipient organization—transferring an active grant from one institution to another. This is a prior-approval administrative process, not a competitive funding round. Applicants must already hold a qualifying NIH grant and must coordinate with the Grants Management Specialist on the current award. There is no guarantee the transfer will be approved.
Who can apply
You must already be a current NIH grant recipient holding one of the specific grant types listed in the full FOA. Eligible applicant types span nonprofits (501c3 and non-501c3), small businesses, universities, state/tribal/local governments, and for-profits. The applicant must be the new organization requesting to become the successor recipient of an existing NIH award.
Eligible applicant types
- State governments
- Private institutions of higher education
- County governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Special district governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- City or township governments
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Small businesses
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
- Independent school districts
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
Full description — from the agency
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) hereby notify recipient organizations holding specific types of NIH grants, listed in the full Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), that applications for change of recipient organization status, often referred to in this announcement as Successor-In-Interest, may be submitted to this NOFO. Applications for change of recipient organization status are considered prior approval requests (as described in Section 8.1.2.8 of the NIH Grants Policy Statement) and will be routed for consideration directly to the Grants Management Specialist named in the current award.Although successor-in-interest requests may be submitted through this NOFO, there is no guarantee that an award will be transferred to the new organization. All applicants are encouraged to discuss potential requests with the awarding IC before submission.
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