Figure 3. Percentage of Applications Funded Within Each Percentile for NIGMS Competing R01 Applications, Fiscal Years 2012-2016. The percentile at which 50% of the applications were funded in FY 2016 (solid green line) is near the 24th percentile, as compared with the 26th percentile in FY 2015 (long-dashed blue line) and the 22nd percentile in FY 2014 (medium-dashed yellow line). FY 2016 had a lower proportion of funded applications below the 10th percentile.