NIH RePORTER Grant Finder

Data: NIH RePORTER. Search it and get one clean dataset of grants: title, awardee organization, principal investigators, funding institute, activity code, award amounts, dates, and (optionally) the PubMed IDs that NIH links to each grant. The run summary adds award totals by fiscal year and the top organizations and institutes. Built on the official NIH RePORTER API v2. No scraping.

Use it to find funded labs in a topic, size a research area, build a list of who NIH funds at a university or in a state, track an institute's awards, or tie grants to their publications.

What you get

• Filters: search text (title, abstract, terms), fiscal years, organizations, principal investigators, NIH institutes, activity codes (R01, R21, K99 and so on), organization states, award range
• Per grant: project number, core project number, fiscal year, title, activity code, award amount with direct and indirect cost, start and end dates, organization, contact PI and all PIs, institute, funding opportunity number, up to 20 keywords, spending categories, link to NIH RePORTER
• Optional includePublications: PubMed IDs NIH links to the grant's core project (all fiscal years of that project, not only the year of the record)
• Optional abstract text
• SUMMARY record: grants returned and scanned, total matches on RePORTER, total award amount, award by fiscal year, top 10 organizations and institutes by award

Price

Pay per event. You pay for grant records returned.

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.005 per start event. Apify bills one start event per GB of memory; the default run uses 512 MB, so one event.
NIH grant returned	$0.004

100 grants cost about $0.41; the 5000-grant maximum costs about $20. Error items are not charged. Set maxItems to cap spend. If a run fails midway, the grants already stored stay in the dataset and are billed.

Example input

{
    "searchText": "CRISPR gene therapy",
    "fiscalYears": ["2024", "2025"],
    "states": ["TX"],
    "activityCodes": ["R01"],
    "sortBy": "awardAmount",
    "includePublications": true,
    "maxItems": 50
}

Example output

{
    "status": "found",
    "applId": 10649830,
    "projectNum": "1R01NS127922-01A1",
    "coreProjectNum": "R01NS127922",
    "fiscalYear": 2023,
    "title": "Novel Roles of TAZ and YAP in DNA Damage Repair with 3D Genome Organization and the Therapeutic Resistance in Glioblastoma",
    "activityCode": "R01",
    "awardAmountUsd": 455465,
    "directCostUsd": 348807,
    "indirectCostUsd": 106658,
    "projectStartDate": "2023-09-01",
    "projectEndDate": "2024-01-06",
    "organization": "UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR",
    "organizationState": "TX",
    "contactPi": "BHAT, KRISHNA PL",
    "principalInvestigators": ["Krishna PL Bhat", "Wenbo Li"],
    "institute": "NINDS",
    "publicationCount": 2,
    "publicationPmids": ["40480976", "41270088"],
    "publicationsTruncated": false,
    "url": "https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10649830"
}

This is a real record, shortened. A run summary is saved under the key-value store key SUMMARY.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? The NIH RePORTER API v2, a free public API of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. It covers NIH and some other HHS agencies' awards. Data reflects RePORTER at run time.

Does the total award figure equal total funding? No. It adds the award amounts of the records returned. A project funded in several fiscal years has one record per year, and the figure follows exactly what you filtered. The summary says so.

Why does a grant show PubMed IDs from other years? NIH links publications to the core project, which spans every fiscal year and supplement of that project. publicationsTruncated: true means that grant's publication list hit the safety limit of 2000 links per page of grants and is incomplete.

Are investigator names personal data? They are the public principal investigator names NIH publishes. Use them to understand who is funded; follow the privacy and anti-spam laws that apply to you if you contact anyone. The actor returns no email addresses.

Can I search several topics? Run once per topic.

Data and limits

• Source: NIH RePORTER (NIH). Subprojects are excluded.
• The actor sends at most one request per second to RePORTER, as NIH asks, so large runs take time: up to 500 grants per request, or 100 per request (plus one publications request) with includePublications.
• NIH asks that large jobs run off-peak (weekends or 9pm-5am US Eastern). Do that for runs over a few thousand grants.
• Up to 5000 grants per run (RePORTER does not page past 15,000 records).
• Organization names must match NIH spelling; use searchText if you are unsure.
• Research aid only: award data can lag and be revised.