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Some policy wonks have suggested that foundations and other private sources will compensate for the flat National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget (Science, 11 May, p. 817). That's wishful thinking, says Research! America, a nonprofit group in Alexandria, Virginia, that tracks U.S. health research funding. Its latest analysis (below) shows that nonindustry private funding represented 2% of the $116 billion spent on U.S. health research in 2006 and has been "completely flat" since 2001, says ResearchlAmerica policy analyst Stacie Propst.