NIH Funded Projects Finder (RePORTER)

Find NIH-funded projects by topic, institution, PI or activity code (R01, R21, K99 …): award amounts, PIs, organisations, dates and optional abstracts.

Why use it

• Find collaborators and competitors on your topic
• Benchmark budgets before writing a proposal
• Funding trend analysis by institute or mechanism

No API keys, no scraping of HTML – the actor talks to the official public API, handles paging, rate limits and retries, and returns flat JSON you can export as CSV/Excel or call from code, Make, Zapier, n8n or AI agents (Apify MCP server).

Input

Field	Title	Description
query	Topic query	Searched in title, terms and abstract, e.g. 'adhesion GPCR'.
fiscalYears	Fiscal years	Default: current and previous year.
organizations	Organizations	e.g. 'STANFORD UNIVERSITY'.
piNames	PI names	Any part of the PI name.
activityCodes	Activity codes	e.g. R01, R21, R35, K99.
minAwardUsd	Minimum award (USD)	Optional filter.
includeAbstracts	Include abstracts	Add project abstracts.
maxResults	Max results	Maximum projects.

Example input:

{
  "query": "adhesion GPCR",
  "includeAbstracts": false,
  "maxResults": 100
}

Output (one dataset item per result)

{
  "projectNumber": "1R01GM000000-01",
  "title": "...",
  "fiscalYear": 2026,
  "awardAmountUsd": 412000,
  "activityCode": "R01",
  "organization": "...",
  "principalInvestigators": [
    "DOE, JANE"
  ],
  "url": "https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/..."
}

Use with AI agents (Apify MCP server)

Add the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com) to Claude, Cursor or any MCP client and enable this actor (researchdata/nih-funded-projects). The agent can then call it directly: describe what you need, the agent fills the input fields above, runs the actor and reads the dataset. Because results are flat JSON with explicit nulls, an agent can use them without extra parsing. Set a maximum cost per run to keep agent calls capped.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.003 per result (project returned). You only pay for results you get; set a max cost per run to cap spending. Higher Apify plans get automatic volume discounts: Bronze −10 %, Silver −20 %, Gold −30 %.

Cost example

At $0.003 per result: 50 results ≈ $0.15, 1,000 results ≈ $3.00. Set a maximum cost per run in the run options to cap spending.

Limits

• Data comes from the provider's public API; fields the provider does not publish are returned empty (null), never guessed.
• Results reflect the provider's database at run time.
• Not affiliated with the data provider.
• Contains names of principal investigators from a public funding database.

FAQ

Where does the data come from?
The public NIH RePORTER API.

Are the award amounts final?
They are as reported by RePORTER for the fiscal year shown.

Data source & terms

NIH RePORTER API v2 (public). Please respect the data provider's terms and cite the original resource in publications. This actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the data provider.