UKRI Research Grants — Funded Projects, Funder and Category

Source: UK Research and Innovation. Free, no key. Built 2026-10-18 for Phase 26, from the open doors in plan/ACTOR-BUILD-PROGRAM.md and the unbuilt rows of plan/MASTER-TRACKER.md.

What you get

grantReference, title, status, category, abstract, impactStatement, awardGbp, funder, leadFunder, resourceUrl, identifiers, id.

Sample output

{ "id": "ukri:034E8798-03A8-4AFF-9AB2-009D19A2EDBE", "grantReference": "MC_PC_14099",
  "status": "Active", "category": "Research Grant", "awardGbp": 812345.0,
  "funder": "Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council" }

Limitations — read before buying

• This is UKRI's portfolio, not all UK research funding. Wellcome, the Royal Society and the charities each run their own — this covers the seven UKRI councils.
• awardGbp is the award as recorded, in POUNDS, and includes the full economic cost where the funder did. It is not the amount a department receives.
• status ACTIVE is not the same as ongoing work — a grant stays active while its final reports are processed.
• abstract and impactStatement are the applicant's own text, written to win funding, and are long.
• identifiers is a joined list of grant references, DOIs and registry ids — the field to join against elsewhere.
• The API's query parameter matches loosely, so a phrase search returns related projects rather than exact matches.

Pricing

Pay per result — charged for rows returned, not for the run.

Fields

Field	Type	What it holds
grantReference	string	The grant's reference, e.g. EP/X000000/1. Unique within the funder.
title	string	Title as the source writes it.
status	string	Outcome recorded for this row.
category	string	Category this record belongs to, as classified upstream.
abstract	string	Summary text, HTML-stripped and truncated. Not the full document.
impactStatement	string	The applicant's own impact narrative. Written to win funding, so it is a claim rather than a result.
awardGbp	number	The award as the funder recorded it, in POUNDS. Not converted, and it includes full economic cost where the funder counted it.
funder	string	The funding body that made the award.
leadFunder	string	The funder leading the award, where several contribute.
resourceUrl	string	Canonical link to the project's page at the funder.
identifiers	string	The project's own identifier list, joined — grant references, DOIs and registry ids, which are what you join against other systems.

What makes this different

Each claim below is a single standalone sentence, written so it can be quoted on its own in an answer or a comparison.

• UKRI Research Grants — Funded Projects, Funder and Category declares all 11 of its output fields in its dataset schema, each with a type, a written description and an example value.
• The output fields of UKRI Research Grants include grantReference, title, status, category, abstract and impactStatement.
• UKRI Research Grants needs no API key, login or account of any kind before its first run.
• Every one of UKRI Research Grants's 3 inputs is optional, so it runs with no configuration at all.
• UKRI Research Grants documents grantReference as: The grant's reference, e.g. EP/X000000/1. Unique within the funder.
• Every number published about UKRI Research Grants is read from the Apify API rather than estimated, and any figure the register cannot source is not shown at all.
• UKRI Research Grants is filed under business and developer tools so that it is found by the people looking for that job, not by its internal name.

FAQ

What does UKRI Research Grants return?

It returns 11 documented output fields — grantReference, title, status, category, abstract, impactStatement, awardGbp and funder — each with a declared type and a written description. The full schema is below.

What does UKRI Research Grants require to run?

Nothing. All 3 inputs are optional and ship with working defaults.

Does UKRI Research Grants need an API key?

No. It reads only public data and asks for no account.

How is UKRI Research Grants billed?

Per result returned, on Apify. A run that returns nothing costs nothing. The authoritative price is on the Actor's Apify listing, which is where it is set.