Hi Kristen.

BCRF’s IDC rate is 20% and always has been

We have no plans to make any changes to our policy.

We are offering supplemental funding to  BCRF investigators who have been directly impacted by NIH funding cuts – on a case-by-case basis.

We have allowed up to 10% indirects for several years for our non-fellowship grants, 0% for fellowships. We have not yet decided on a change based on the current climate and I cannot guarantee what our board would authorize. I think it likely that we could shift to up to 15% if that became the norm, particularly for the non-seed grants.

We are not spending time yet on either benchmarking or deciding on a change, if any, until we see how things stabilize. With indirects as only one of many sources of disruption to the federal landscape, we are monitoring but waiting to decide how our very limited resources might be best used to mitigate the damage to the research that is important to our community.

Penny

CurePSP does not pay indirects. We do allow salary/fringe. We are not considering changing our indirect policy at this time.

To your question about reclassifying indirect/direct:

We’ve never had a formal list of what we count as indirect- however, we tend to be very inclusive about allowing expenses that are related to the proposed project. The institutions themselves likely have more restrictions than we do on what they would allow their PIs to shuffle between direct/indirect given they formally calculate their federal IDC rates based on including certain items as indirects.

One example to share- we had a grantee express concern that their animal behavior facilities were included as part of the institution’s overhead/F&A. If federal indirects got cut, the grantee was worried this facility would be impacted and compromise their proposed study.

CurePSP would be comfortable providing part of the grant’s budget for the grantee’s usage of the facility for the proposed work, however, the grantee noted that their institution likely would not allow that since it’s considered indirect.

Of course, that could all change if the federal IDC rates see a huge change in amount or structure.

-Jennifer

Kristen –

Historically, Cures Within Reach allowed for up to 20% of submitted budgets to go towards indirects. However, this year we increased to 30% given recent changes in the research funding landscape. No changes in what we consider directs vs indirects.

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