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NIH grant data by organization: who wins NIH money, from which institute, for what

NIH RePORTER is the National Institutes of Health’s public record of funded biomedical research. This actor searches it by recipient organization and returns one clean row per project award: what was funded, by which NIH institute or centre, for how much, in which fiscal year, and which principal investigators lead it. No API key, no login and no proxy are needed.

Who it is for

• Life-science sales teams — finding organizations with NIH funding in their therapeutic area, and the investigators to approach.
• Grant analysts — mapping biomedical research funding by institute, mechanism and year.
• Account researchers — building a funding profile of a target company, hospital or university before a sales conversation.
• Competitive-intelligence teams — tracking a rival’s publicly funded research programme.

What you get

One row per project award. Fill rates are from a measured run of 47 rows for 3 organizations on 2026-09-20:

A real row from the default run, shortened:

{
  "companyName": "REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.",
  "awardId": "1U01HG004085-01",
  "awardTitle": "Production of Targeted Null Mutations for 10,000 Genes in C57BL/6 ES Cells",
  "awardType": "U01",
  "counterparty": "National Human Genome Research Institute",
  "amount": 5311300,
  "currency": "USD",
  "fiscalYear": 2006,
  "startDate": "2006-09-07",
  "endDate": "2011-08-31",
  "city": "TARRYTOWN",
  "state": "NY"
}

Use cases

• Life-science sales. Find organizations with active NIH funding in your therapeutic area.
• Account research. See how much NIH money a target account brings in, and from which institute.
• Investigator targeting. Reach the named principal investigator on a relevant project.
• Competitive intelligence. Track a rival’s publicly funded research programme.
• Market sizing. Group awards by institute, mechanism or fiscal year.

How to run it

Put recipient organization names into queries. This is the prefilled input:

{
  "queries": ["Genentech", "Mayo Clinic", "Regeneron Pharmaceuticals"],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 25
}

• queries — recipient organization names, matched on the name registered on the grant.
• maxResultsPerQuery — caps how many projects come back per organization.
• fiscalYears — optional; limits results to specific NIH fiscal years. Leave it empty for all years.

The measured run above returned 47 rows in under 5 seconds. The actor is also on the Apify MCP server as foxlabs/nih-reporter-organization-data, and it supports agentic payments: an AI agent can run it and settle the bill over x402 (USDC on Base) or Skyfire, without an Apify account of its own.

Honest limits

• One project, several rows. NIH funds continuing projects in yearly increments, so each fiscal year is its own award row and amounts can look inconsistent year to year. Group by coreProjectNumber to total a project across years.
• Registered names, not brands. RePORTER matches the recipient’s registered name. If an organization returns nothing, try the formal spelling, such as REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
• Some fields are partial. endDate came back on 72% of rows, and department was empty on every measured row — RePORTER defines it but did not populate it. Columns RePORTER does not publish at all (award date, status, industry code, free-text description) were removed rather than shipped empty.
• Large recipients are large. Big hospitals hold hundreds of projects; lower maxResultsPerQuery or narrow with fiscalYears.
• NIH only. NSF and other agencies publish separate records.

Where the data comes from

NIH RePORTER exists so the public can see how federal biomedical research money is spent. The rows describe organizations and funded projects; investigator names appear exactly as NIH publishes them in that public record. This is an independent tool, not affiliated with or endorsed by NIH or the US Government.

Related data and guides

• Browse the research funding and institution datasets on the home page.
• Pharma pipeline data — reading grants, clinical trials and FDA approvals against one company.
• US healthcare organization data — NPI, FDA drug sponsors and device makers.
• NSF award data by company and ROR research organization data — the other two pieces of the research-funding picture.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need an NIH API key?

No. RePORTER is public, and the actor needs no key, login or proxy.

Why does one project appear several times?

A continuing project is funded yearly, so each fiscal year is its own award row. The coreProjectNumber field groups them, so total a project by that number.

Can I limit results to recent fiscal years?

Yes. Set fiscalYears to the years you want, for example 2024 and 2025. Leave it empty for all years.

Why does an organization return nothing?

RePORTER matches the recipient’s registered name. Try the formal spelling, such as REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., rather than a brand name.

Does it cover NSF or other agencies?

No, NIH only. NSF publishes its own award record, covered by the NSF Award Data actor.