Abstract: This paper systematically analyzes the application, acceptance, evaluation, and funding of the projects managed by the Geochemistry Discipline (Application Code: D03) in the Earth Science Department, National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2025, and analyzes the project completion and precautions in 2024. The number of applications for the General Program, Young Scientists Fund (Type C), and Fund for the Less Developed Regions in the Geochemistry discipline showed a fluctuating upward trend respectively during the 2020-2025. For two consecutive years, the number of applications for the Young Scientists Fund (Type C) has been significantly lower than that of the General Program. In the past five years, the total number of support organizations applying for projects has kept increasing continuously, and Earth’s surface geochemistry (D0310) has become a new growth point of the discipline. The General Program and Young Scientists Fund (Type C) are mainly based on “Free-exploration basic research”, while the Key Programs in the field of “Resource and energy formation theory and supply potential” are mainly based on “Goal-oriented basic research”. In 2025, four projects in the geochemistry discipline were not accepted due to reasons such as failure to provide supporting materials, recommendation letters, supervisors' consent letters, ethics committee certificates as required, and missing items in the application forms. In 2025, the review submission rates of the General Program, Young Scientists Fund (Type C), and Less Developed Regions of Geochemistry discipline were 154.7%, 154.7%, and 141.7%, respectively. The funding rates were 17.9%, 18.4%, and 11.1%, respectively. The average funding amounts were 531,000 yuan per project, 300,000 yuan per project, and 309,000 yuan per project, respectively. The funding achievements and first-labeled achievements of the General Program, Young Scientists Fund Program (Type B and Type C), and Fund for the Less Developed Regions completed at the end of 2024 need to be improved. Hereby, it is recommended that the Principal Investigator of uncompleted geochemistry projects must further understand and follow the management guidelines of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and ensure the standardization of achievements labeling, especially for the high-level achievements. In recent years, the geochemistry discipline has remained characterized by a relatively small number of applications and slow growth. In the future, on the basis of maintaining the advantageous directions of the geochemistry discipline, efforts should be made to strengthen the in-depth integration of basic research with goal orientation and national needs, and to promote interdisciplinary research, cross-disciplinary research, and transdisciplinary research to expand the depth and breadth of geochemistry research.