NIH & NSF Research Grant Awards Feed (new awards, daily)

NIH & NSF Research Grant Awards Feed: New Research Funding by Institution, Daily

Get new US research grant awards from NIH (RePORTER) and the National Science Foundation in one clean feed: institution, award amount, project title and abstract, funding institute/directorate, award type and project dates. Filter by keyword, institution, state or amount, and schedule it with "new since last run" mode to receive only awards you have not seen.

Uses the official, free NIH RePORTER and NSF Award Search APIs: no API key, no login.

Who it's for

• Lab-supply, instrument, reagent and software vendors: newly funded labs buy equipment. Get a weekly list of new awards that mention your technology ("mass spectrometry", "cryo-EM", "single-cell") at institutions in your sales territory.
• CROs, core facilities and research-services firms: spot new NIH projects in your therapeutic area early.
• University research offices, foundations and consultants: competitive intelligence on who gets funded for what.
• Journalists, analysts and policy researchers tracking federal research funding by state, institution or topic.

What you get

Each record is one award:

• What: title, abstract (trimmed), NIH spending categories or NSF directorate/division, program, award type (NIH activity code + mechanism, NSF grant type), new vs continuation (NIH).
• Who (institution only): institution, city, state, country, UEI.
• Money and dates: obligated amount (USD), NSF estimated total, NIH direct/indirect cost, award date, date added, project start/end, fiscal year.
• Link to the official NIH RePORTER or NSF award page.

Principal investigator, program officer and contact names, emails and phone numbers are never output; follow the official link if you need them.

Quick start

1. Click Try for free and run the default input {}: the 30 newest awards from the last 30 days (15 NIH + 15 NSF) in a few seconds.
2. Narrow it down, for example new CRISPR awards in Massachusetts and California:

{ "keywords": ["CRISPR", "gene editing"], "states": ["MA", "CA"], "maxItems": 100 }

3. For alerts, set "mode": "sinceLastRun" and schedule the Actor daily or weekly.

More recipes

• Big NSF awards: { "sources": ["nsf"], "minAmount": 500000, "lookbackDays": 60 }
• Only brand-new NIH projects at one university system: { "sources": ["nih"], "onlyNewAwards": true, "institutionKeywords": ["University of Texas"] }
• AI research funding: { "keywords": ["machine learning", "artificial intelligence", "deep learning"] }

Input

Field	Default	Description
mode	window	window = stateless lookback; sinceLastRun = only awards not delivered before (per stateKey)
sources	["nih","nsf"]	one or both
lookbackDays	30	award / added-date window (1-365)
keywords	none	any of these in title, abstract or terms
institutionKeywords	none	institution name contains
states	all	2-letter US state codes
minAmount	none	minimum USD amount
onlyNewAwards	false	drop NIH continuation years
maxItems	30	max awards per run, newest first
stateKey	default	separate saved state per saved search

Output (example, real records from Oct 2026, abstracts trimmed)

[
  {
    "awardId": "NSF-2629489",
    "source": "NSF",
    "agency": "NSF",
    "fundingInstitute": "Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences / Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences",
    "projectNumber": "2629489",
    "title": "Origins of Ceremonial Architecture and Sedentary Life",
    "abstract": "Around the world, large building projects and public rituals predated and contributed to the development of complex societies, such as states. Of particular interest are regions where states developed without the externa…",
    "institution": "University of Arkansas",
    "institutionCity": "Fayetteville",
    "institutionState": "AR",
    "institutionCountry": "UNITED STATES",
    "institutionUei": "MECEHTM8DB17",
    "awardDate": "2026-10-28",
    "addedDate": "2026-10-28",
    "startDate": "2026-12-01",
    "endDate": "2027-08-31",
    "amount": 56322,
    "totalEstimatedAmount": 109829,
    "directCost": null,
    "indirectCost": null,
    "fiscalYear": null,
    "awardType": "Standard Grant",
    "isNewAward": null,
    "program": "Archaeology",
    "categories": [
      "SBE",
      "BCS"
    ],
    "url": "https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2629489"
  },
  {
    "awardId": "NIH-11550900",
    "source": "NIH",
    "agency": "NICHD",
    "fundingInstitute": "Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development",
    "projectNumber": "7R21HD116120-02",
    "title": "Insights into EHMT1 Variants in the Neurodevelopmental Disorder Kleefstra Syndrome through Structural Dynamics and Functional Analysis",
    "abstract": "Euchromatic histone methyltransferase 1 (EHMT1, also known as GLP) is a key histone methylation writer intricately associated with Kleefstra Syndrome (KS), a multifaceted neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by inte…",
    "institution": "Mayo Clinic Arizona",
    "institutionCity": "Scottsdale",
    "institutionState": "AZ",
    "institutionCountry": "UNITED STATES",
    "institutionUei": "ULMJJBL7ZXX3",
    "awardDate": "2026-10-23",
    "addedDate": "2026-10-24",
    "startDate": "2026-06-01",
    "endDate": "2027-05-31",
    "amount": 194527,
    "totalEstimatedAmount": null,
    "directCost": 124750,
    "indirectCost": 69777,
    "fiscalYear": 2024,
    "awardType": "R21 - Non-SBIR/STTR",
    "isNewAward": true,
    "program": null,
    "categories": [],
    "url": "https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11550900"
  }
]

A run summary is saved to the OUTPUT record: window, total matches per source, filters dropped.

Data sources, timing and fair use

• NIH RePORTER API v2 (reporter.nih.gov): NIH and other HHS/VA research awards, filtered by the date the record was added to RePORTER. RePORTER loads new awards weekly, so the default window is 30 days.
• NSF Award Search API (api.nsf.gov): NSF awards by award date, usually posted within days.
• Both are US federal government works (public domain). This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by NIH or NSF.
• Requests are few and spaced (NIH: at most 1 request per second, as NIH asks), with retries and back-off.
• Amounts: NIH amount is the total award amount for the budget year (may be null for VA intramural awards); NSF amount is the amount obligated so far and totalEstimatedAmount the expected total.

Pricing

Pay per event (Apify takes care of billing; you only pay for what is delivered):

Event	Price	Charged
apify-actor-start	$0.005	once per run
award-record	$0.003	per award delivered

A default test run (30 awards) costs about $0.095. A weekly keyword alert (~20 awards/week) costs about $0.065/week. maxItems and Apify's max cost per run cap your spend; the Actor stops delivering when your budget is reached, so you are never charged for more than you set. No separate platform-usage charges: compute is included in the event prices.

FAQ

Why are there no investigator names? By design this is an institution-level feed (no personal data). The official link on each record has the full public record.

Why do NIH awards arrive in weekly batches? NIH RePORTER publishes new awards weekly; NSF posts daily. In October (start of the federal fiscal year) volumes are lower than in summer.

Does it include other agencies (DoD, DOE, NASA)? Not yet. For all federal contracts see our Federal Contract Awards Feed; for open funding opportunities see our Grants Opportunities Feed.

Can I backfill? Yes, up to 365 days with lookbackDays and a higher maxItems.