EU Cohesion Funds Beneficiaries API — who receives EU cohesion funding, and how much

EU Cohesion Funds Beneficiaries API reads Kohesio, the European Commission's open project database, and returns one clean row per EU-funded project: beneficiary, country, region, fund, programme, EU contribution, total budget, dates and coordinates.

What it does

• Search - by keyword, country, beneficiary, budget and start year.
• Lookup - full details by Kohesio project id.
• Monitor - only new or changed projects.
• Money in EUR as published.

Who it's for

• Grant consultants and fundraisers
• Contractors and suppliers following EU-funded projects
• Journalists and watchdogs
• KYB and due-diligence teams

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	search	What to do. search - find EU-funded projects by keyword, country, beneficiary, budget, year lookup - full details of projects by Kohesio id monitor - report only new or changed projects selftest - health check (for schedules)
keyword	string	solar	e.g. 'solar', 'school', 'digital'.
countries	array	["PL"]	Two-letter codes, e.g. PL, DE, RO.
beneficiaryName	string		Part of the beneficiary name (requires a detail lookup per project).
regionContains	string		Part of the region or country name.
minBudget	number		EU contribution from.
maxBudget	number		EU contribution up to.
yearFrom	integer		Project start year from.
yearTo	integer		Project start year to.
fetchBeneficiary	boolean	true	Adds beneficiary, fund, programme and region (one extra request per project).
projectIds	array	["Q4418451"]	Lookup mode: Kohesio ids such as Q4418451.
emitBaseline	boolean	false	Report all current matches on the first monitor run.
maxItems	integer	50	Stop after this many billable results (a spending cap per run).

Modes: search, lookup, monitor, selftest.

Example input

{
  "mode": "search",
  "keyword": "solar",
  "countries": [
    "PL"
  ],
  "maxItems": 20
}

Output example

Every row is flat JSON with status (ok, not_found, invalid_input, source_error), source, sourceUrl, fetchedAt and dataAsOf.

{
  "status": "ok",
  "source": "Kohesio - EU Cohesion Policy projects (European Commission)",
  "sourceUrl": "https://kohesio.ec.europa.eu/en/projects/Q4418451",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-25T08:00:00Z",
  "dataAsOf": null,
  "projectId": "Q4418451",
  "project": "Renewable energy sources for residents of the Municipality of Krzanowice and the Municipality of Rudnik",
  "beneficiary": "Gmina Krzanowice",
  "country": "PL",
  "euContribution": 2966365.2,
  "totalBudget": 3489841.2,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "startDate": "2022-04-25",
  "endDate": "2023-10-31"
}

Pricing

Pay per event — you pay only for results, never for empty or failed lookups (not_found, invalid_input and source_error rows are free).

Event	What is charged	Price	Per 1,000
project	Project record	$0.004	$4
change-event	Alert event	$0.03	$30

Apify platform usage (compute, storage) is included in the event prices. Set Maximum cost per run in the run options to cap spending; the Actor stops cleanly when the limit is reached. Apify subscribers on Bronze, Silver and Gold plans get automatic discounts on the event prices.

Use with MCP, n8n, Make and Zapier

• Apify MCP server — add https://mcp.apify.com?tools=tiger19935/eu-funds-beneficiaries to Claude, Cursor or any MCP client so an AI agent can call this Actor as a tool.
• n8n / Make / Zapier — use the Apify integration, pick Run Actor, select tiger19935/eu-funds-beneficiaries and map the dataset items. Saved Tasks + a schedule turn it into a monitor with webhooks.
• API — POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/tiger19935~eu-funds-beneficiaries/runs or the official Apify clients for JavaScript and Python.

FAQ

Is it legal to use this data? The Actor only reads official open data from Kohesio (European Commission). Open data under the Commission reuse policy. Every row carries source and sourceUrl so you can attribute it. No captcha, login or personal data of private individuals is bypassed or collected.

How fresh is the data? Each row has dataAsOf - the publication date of the source file or API. If the publisher stops updating, dataAsOf stops moving and the daily self-test run fails, so you can tell stale data from a broken Actor.

What happens when nothing is found or the source is down? You get a not_found or source_error row and you are not charged. The Actor never fails silently with an empty dataset.

How do I get alerts? Create a Task with mode: monitor, schedule it (hourly or daily) and add a webhook, or connect the Apify integration in n8n, Make or Zapier. Only new, changed and removed records are returned and charged.

Does it include the EU Financial Transparency System? No. This Actor covers cohesion policy projects from Kohesio only.

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