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NSF award data by company: who NSF funds, for how much, and how to reach them

The National Science Foundation publishes every award it makes. This actor searches that record by awardee organization and returns one clean row per award: what was funded, for how much, over which period, who the principal investigator was, and where the organization sits. NSF also publishes the awardee’s phone number — it came back on 98% of rows in the measured run, so the rows carry a contact route, not just a name.

Who it is for

• Research-sales teams — building outreach lists of research-active companies and universities, phone number included.
• Grant analysts — seeing which organizations NSF funds in a field, and at what scale.
• Partnership and competitor scouts — profiling a university’s or company’s federal research income.
• Funding-trend analysts — grouping awards by year, directorate or program.

What you get

One row per award. Fill rates are from a measured run of 51 rows for 3 organizations on 2026-09-20:

A real row from the default run, shortened:

{
  "companyName": "Intel Corporation",
  "awardId": "7469025",
  "awardTitle": "FACULTY RESEARCH PARTICIPATION",
  "amount": 6960,
  "currency": "USD",
  "awardedOn": "2004-04-13",
  "startDate": "1974-01-01",
  "endDate": "1974-11-01",
  "state": "CA",
  "isActive": false
}

Use cases

• Research-sales outreach. Build a call list of research-active organizations, phone number included.
• Grant landscape. See which organizations NSF funds in a field, and at what scale.
• Competitor and partner mapping. Profile a university’s or company’s federal research income.
• PI targeting. Reach the named principal investigator on relevant awards.
• Funding trend analysis. Group awards by year, directorate or program to see where NSF money moves.

How to run it

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

{
  "queries": ["Intel Corporation", "Georgia Tech Research Corporation", "SRI International"],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 25
}

• queries — awardee organization names, matched on the registered awardee name.
• maxResultsPerQuery — caps how many awards come back per organization.

The measured run above returned 51 rows in about 4 seconds. The actor is also on the Apify MCP server as foxlabs/nsf-awards-company-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

• Formal names work best. NSF matches the awardee’s registered name, so Georgia Tech Research Corporation finds what Georgia Tech may not.
• Amounts are per award record. amount is the funds obligated on that award; a large program is usually split across many awards. estimatedTotal carries NSF’s own estimate for the award.
• Older records are thinner. City and principal investigator are missing on some older awards — that is what the 98% figures reflect.
• Search is by organization. queries are organization names, not award ids; for a known award, open its sourceUrl. The maxResultsPerQuery cap is per organization, not per run.
• Grants, not contracts — and NSF only. NIH publishes its own record, and federal contracts live in USAspending.
• Dates are normalised. NSF ships US-style MM/DD/YYYY dates; the actor reads them that way and outputs ISO dates. Columns NSF does not publish (recipient id, award status, industry code, free-text description) were removed rather than shipped empty.

Where the data comes from

The National Science Foundation publishes its award records through the NSF Award Search API so the public can see how research money is spent. The rows describe organizations and funded projects; the phone number is the organization’s published contact number, not a personal line. You remain responsible for how you use the output, including any outreach rules that apply to you. This is an independent tool, not affiliated with or endorsed by NSF or the US Government.

Related data and guides

• Browse the research funding and institution datasets on the home page.
• Pharma pipeline data — grants, clinical trials and approvals read against one company.
• US federal contracting data — the contract side of federal money, from USAspending.
• NIH grant data by organization and ROR research organization data.

Frequently asked questions

Is the awardee phone number really in NSF data?

Yes. NSF publishes the awardee’s phone number on the award record, and it came back on 98% of rows in the measured run. It is the organization’s listed number, not a personal line.

How far back does NSF award data go?

As far as NSF’s own record. The measured run returned awards starting in 1974, though older records carry fewer fields than recent ones.

Can I search by award ID?

No. Queries are organization names. For a known award, open its sourceUrl directly.

Why do award amounts look small?

amount is the funds obligated on that award record, and a large program is usually split across many awards. estimatedTotal carries NSF’s own estimate of the award’s total.

Do I need an NSF API key?

No. NSF’s award search is public, and the actor needs no key, login or proxy.