Extramural funding in the form of grants can be both blessings and burdens to faculty members and other principal investigators (PIs) in higher education and their institutions. This investigation explored workload issues related to grant funding, including principal investigator (PI) perceptions of the institutional support received for grants administration, the impact of those perceptions, the potential benefit of additional staff support for grant-related administrative tasks, and the preferred educational level and location of the desired staff support. The population (N=11,224) was comprised of NSF PIs who held active, standard STEM education grants. There was no purposeful sampling as each PI had the opportunity to respond to the 35-question, online survey. The lens of the theoretical portion of the investigation was the Perceived Organization Support (POS) construct (Eisenberger, Huntington, Hutchison, & Sowa, 1986). The empirical aspect of the study responded to a challenge made to the field in the report on the 2012 Federal Demonstration Partnership's Faculty Workload Survey (Schneider, Ness, Rockwell, Shaver, & Brutkiewicz, 2014). Key findings included: (1) Survey respondents estimated they spent a mean of nearly 24% and a median of 20% of their weekly funded research time on non-research, grant-related tasks, (2) Survey respondents estimated the weekly benefits of time savings per week from administrative staff support for grant-related tasks would be from 240 to 332 minutes or 4 to 5.5 hours per week, (3) Survey respondents most frequently selected professional staff (bachelor's degree) for grants administrative support in three categories (research compliance, personnel-related, and common administrative) and selected advanced professional staff (graduate degrees) for proposal and report preparation, (4) Survey respondents most frequently selected their department offices as the preferred work location for all four categories of grants administrative tasks, and (5) The POS construct identified the strength of the commitment that faculty and other PIs had for the federal grants-to-academic research enterprise. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]