NIH Grants Search (RePORTER Awards, PIs, Institutions)

Search NIH-funded research grants from the official NIH RePORTER API by keyword, fiscal year, state, institution or PI. Returns award amount, PI, organization, IC, dates and project links.

Data source: NIH RePORTER API v2. Official public data, no API key, no login and no scraping of protected pages. Results are returned as clean, flat JSON that is ready for spreadsheets, databases, BI tools and AI agents.

What can you use it for?

• Find funded labs to sell research tools to
• Track funding trends in a research area
• Competitive / collaborator research
• Grant-writing benchmarks
• Use it as a tool from AI agents through the Apify MCP server, or schedule it and send new results to Slack, Google Sheets or a webhook

Input

Field	Name	Description
keywords	Keywords	Text searched in title, terms and abstract
fiscalYears	Fiscal years	e.g. 2025, 2026
states	Organization states	2-letter codes
organization	Organization name	Institution name contains
piName	PI name	Principal investigator name
includeAbstract	Include abstract	Add the project abstract
maxResults	Max results	Maximum grants

Example input

{
  "keywords": "CRISPR",
  "fiscalYears": [
    "2025"
  ],
  "states": [
    "CA"
  ],
  "maxResults": 5
}

Output

Each result is one dataset item with these fields: projectNumber, applId, title, fiscalYear, awardAmount, activityCode, agency, organization, orgCity, orgState, principalInvestigators, contactPi, projectStart, projectEnd, terms, url.

Example output (real result, long fields shortened)

{
  "projectNumber": "5U54AG054349-09",
  "applId": 11178344,
  "title": "UC Irvine MODEL-AD",
  "fiscalYear": 2025,
  "awardAmount": 9281325,
  "activityCode": "U54",
  "agency": "NIA",
  "organization": "UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE",
  "orgCity": "IRVINE",
  "orgState": "CA",
  "principalInvestigators": [
    "Kim  Green",
    "FRANK M LAFERLA"
  ],
  "contactPi": "LAFERLA, FRANK M",
  "projectStart": "2017-09-15",
  "projectEnd": "2027-08-31",
  "terms": [
    "ATAC-seq",
    "Academia",
    "Affect",
    "Aging"
  ],
  "url": "https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11178344"
}

Download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, or read them through the Apify API.

Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. You pay $0.003 per grant returned, plus standard Apify platform usage, which is small because the Actor only calls lightweight APIs. You are never charged for results that are not returned. To cap spending, set a maximum cost per run in the run options.

Tips

• Start with a small max-results value to check your filters, then scale up.
• Schedule the Actor (for example daily) with a "since" date filter where available to get change alerts.
• The data comes straight from the official source, so its freshness and completeness depend on that publisher.

Disclaimer

This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the data publisher. Verify critical decisions against the official source.