This paper systematically analyzes the application, acceptance, evaluation, and funding of the projects managed by the Geochemistry Discipline (Application Code: D03) in the Department of Earth Sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2025, and reviews the project completion in 2024. Compared with 2024, the number of applications for the Fund for the Less Developed Regions increased in 2025, while the General Program and Young Scientists Fund (C) showed a slight decrease. For two consecutive years, the number of applications for the Young Scientists Fund (C) has been significantly lower than that of the General Program. In the past five years, the total number of host institutions applying for projects has kept increasing continuously, and Earth’s surface geochemistry (D0310) has become a new growth point of the discipline. In 2025, four projects in the Geochemistry discipline were not accepted due to failure to provide required supporting materials. The review submission rates of the General Program, Young Scientists Fund (C), and Fund for the Less Developed Regions 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 completion outcomes of the General Program, Young Scientists Fund (C), and Fund for the Less Developed Regions in 2024, as well as the Young Scientists Fund (B) projects approved in 2021, indicate that the overall quality of funding achievements and first-labeled achievements needs further improvement. 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 discipline, efforts should be made to strengthen the in-depth integration of basic research with goal orientation and national needs, and to promote interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary, and transdisciplinary research, so as to expand both the depth and breadth of geochemistry research.