That's the greatest amount of NIH funding per capita in the nation, according to a recent analysis of NIH funding and local employment by the nonpartisan Brookings Institute. Such communities are vulnerable to job losses if the NIH's budget is reduced, the analysis found. Mayo Clinic is the second largest recipient of NIH funding in Minnesota. The Brookings Institute analysis found that, if the NIH's budget is reduced to $27.5 billion, those cities with the most NIH funding per capita would lose jobs in the immediate future. The NIH budget and labor market analysis comes after the federal agency has already scaled back some of its spending.