The Institute secured a total budget of 14.7 M€ in 2018. The competitive budget represents a 64 % (9.4 M€) and 36 % comes from the CSIC (5.3 M€).

The budget from the European Union represents a 27 % of the total budget (4 M€), and 19 % of the total budget comes from the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (2.8 M€). The budget from private sources (including contracts and services) represents a 5 % of the total budget (0.8 M€).

A 51.8 % of the budget devoted to the scientific projects carried out at the ICMAB comes from the European Union, a 35.9 % from the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, a 10.3 % are Industry Contracts and a 2 % is funding from the Generalitat de Catalunya. The EU funding has been extraordinary high during 2017-2018.

Half of the ICMAB personnel are funded by the CSIC (50 %), while the other half are funded by projects (31 %), other fellowships (13 %), ICREA (4 %) and CIBER (2 %)