US President Barack Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act dedicated about US$21 billion to federal research and development. Now, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF) are helping potential recipients keep track of the funds. The NSF has a dedicated website (http://www.nsf.gov/recovery) that is publicizing money available to improve academic research facilities and research instrumentation. The NIH website also now provides a page (http://www.nih.gov/recovery/index.htm) for stimulus funding programmes. Under the stimulus funding plan, the agency will provide an additional $8.2 billion in research grants.