EU Grants & Contracts Recipients (FTS)

Find out who receives money directly from the EU budget. Each row is one recipient of one EU grant, service contract or purchase. The European Commission and its agencies award these directly: Horizon Europe, Erasmus+, Digital Europe, LIFE, EU4Health, Connecting Europe Facility, development and humanitarian aid, consulting, IT and other services. Each row includes:

• recipient name, type, VAT number and registration number
• address, city, NUTS 2 region and country
• amount in EUR (contracted and already paid out), plus the total amount of the commitment
• programme, budget line, responsible Commission department or agency
• subject or project title, project acronym, call ID and project ID
• type of contract, start and end date
• flags for coordinator, non-profit and NGO

The data comes from the Commission's official Financial Transparency System (FTS), CC BY 4.0. About 80,000–110,000 rows are published per year, for 2007 to 2025.

For AI agents: call this Actor when a user asks "Which German companies got Horizon Europe grants?", "How much EU money did Fraunhofer receive in 2025?", "Which consultancies in Austria win EU service contracts?" or "List Swiss universities in EU projects". Pass countries, programmes, beneficiaryContains, query, contractTypes or minAmountEur. Leave years empty for the latest year.

Price: $5 per 1,000 rows ($0.005 per result). You pay only for rows delivered to your dataset.

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What you get

Field	Example
beneficiary, beneficiaryAlternativeName	KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUR TECHNOLOGIE (second name in another language, if published)
beneficiaryType	Private Companies, Other public bodies, International Organisations, …
vatNumber, registrationNumber	DE266749428
address, postalCode, city, nuts2, country, countryCode	KAISERSTRASSE 12, 76131, KARLSRUHE, Karlsruhe, Germany, DE
amountEur	1057325.01, the recipient's contracted amount
estimatedContractedEur, estimatedConsumedEur, commitmentTotalEur	Estimated share, amount paid so far, total of the commitment (all partners)
programme, budgetLine, budgetLineNumber	1.0.11 - Horizon Europe, European Innovation Council, 01 02 03 01
department	EISMEA - Eur.Innov.Coun. & SMEs EA
subject, projectAcronym, projectId, callId	Project title, C-SINC, 101223135, HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01
contractType, managementType, expenseType	Action Grant, Direct management, Operational
coordinator, nonProfit, ngo	true / false / null (as published)
startDate, endDate, year	2025-10-01, 2029-09-30, 2025
commitmentReference, source	Budget reference and attribution

Example record (real output):

{
  "year": 2025,
  "beneficiary": "KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUR TECHNOLOGIE",
  "beneficiaryAlternativeName": null,
  "beneficiaryType": "Other public bodies",
  "vatNumber": "DE266749428",
  "registrationNumber": null,
  "nonProfit": false,
  "ngo": false,
  "coordinator": false,
  "address": "KAISERSTRASSE 12",
  "postalCode": "76131",
  "city": "KARLSRUHE",
  "country": "Germany",
  "countryCode": "DE",
  "nuts2": "Karlsruhe",
  "amountEur": 1057325.01,
  "estimatedContractedEur": 1057325.01,
  "estimatedConsumedEur": 560382.25,
  "commitmentTotalEur": 3997434,
  "subject": "CONCRETE PRODUCTS THROUGH SUSTAINABLE AND INNOVATIVE CARBON-STORING BINDERS",
  "programme": "1.0.11 - Horizon Europe",
  "budgetLine": "European Innovation Council",
  "budgetLineNumber": "01 02 03 01",
  "department": "EISMEA - Eur.Innov.Coun. & SMEs EA",
  "callId": "HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01",
  "projectId": "101223135",
  "projectAcronym": "C-SINC",
  "contractType": "Action Grant",
  "managementType": "Direct management",
  "expenseType": "Operational",
  "startDate": "2025-10-01",
  "endDate": "2029-09-30",
  "commitmentReference": "4500140611.00010",
  "source": "Source: European Commission – Financial Transparency System (FTS), https://ec.europa.eu/budget/financial-transparency-system, licensed CC BY 4.0"
}

Use cases

• B2B sales and business development: find companies and research institutes with fresh EU funding in your field. They have budget and often need partners, suppliers or consultants.
• Grant consultants: see who wins which calls, with the call ID, project and amount.
• Competitor and market analysis: which consultancies, IT providers or event agencies win Commission service contracts, and for how much.
• Due diligence, journalism and research: EU money per organisation, region, programme or year.
• Partner search for EU projects: coordinators and partners of past projects by topic (query) and country.

Input examples

German companies and institutes with Horizon Europe grants of at least €1 million (latest year):

{ "countries": ["DE"], "programmes": ["Horizon Europe"], "minAmountEur": 1000000, "maxResults": 500 }

All EU money for one organisation over several years:

{ "beneficiaryContains": "Fraunhofer", "years": ["2025", "2024", "2023"], "maxResults": 5000 }

Consulting and study contracts won by Austrian firms:

{ "countries": ["AT"], "contractTypes": ["Advisory"], "beneficiaryTypes": ["Private Companies"] }

Coverage

• Included: money that the Commission, its executive agencies, EU agencies and Joint Undertakings manage directly. Some indirect management (e.g. through international organisations) is included too. In short: the part of the EU budget that the Member States do not manage.
• Not included: EU funds that national or regional authorities manage, such as ERDF, ESF+ and agricultural payments. For ERDF and Cohesion Fund recipients use our Actor EU Funding Recipients – Structural Funds (Kohesio).
• Timing: the Commission publishes each year around the middle of the following year. years empty = the latest published year.
• Names are spelled as published, mostly in capital letters and without accents.

Reliability and fair use

• One download per year (one official Excel file of 15–20 MB). The Actor makes no other requests to the Commission.
• The Actor checks that the file really is a spreadsheet and that the expected columns exist. If the Commission changes the format, the run fails with UNEXPECTED_CONTENT. You never get garbage.
• Every row is validated: name, year, country, programme, amount and ISO dates. Invalid rows are dropped and not charged. If more than 20% are invalid, the run stops.
• The run stops at maxResults or at your maximum cost per run. A typical run takes under one minute.

Legal and privacy

• Source: European Commission, Financial Transparency System. Reuse is allowed under CC BY 4.0 (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU). Every row carries the attribution.
• Private persons are never returned, not even on request. The Commission publishes some natural persons (e.g. prize winners and experts). This Actor skips them all.
• Internal EU money flows (EU institutions, agencies, EIB, EIF) are hidden by default (excludeEuBodies).
• This Actor is not affiliated with the European Commission. Only the official FTS is authoritative.