# 2s Research Funding Awards Lookup

> 2s Research Funding Awards Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from 2s.io, paid per call via x402, $0.0018/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Searches US federal research funding awards (NIH and other agencies) by principal investigator, organization, fiscal year, or keyword

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://2s.io/api/research/funding
- Price: $0.0018/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/2s-research-funding-awards-lookup-54bddb65
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_C-b4sMDL4UWQl0kvrycH_

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability 2s-research-funding-awards-lookup-54bddb65
```

Example prompt: Search NIH RePORTER for federal research grants related to 'mRNA vaccine' from fiscal year 2025 — show me up to 20 results including PI names, agencies, award amounts, and project numbers.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need ground-truth US federal research grant data from NIH RePORTER, especially for looking up specific PIs, organizations, or research topics by keyword. Prefer this over general web search when you need structured, authoritative award amounts and project numbers. Best for biomedical and health-related federal funding queries.

## Known failure modes

- No awards found for the given query — returns empty awards array with count 0
- Invalid fiscal year or out-of-range limit/offset values — schema validation error
- Upstream NIH RePORTER unavailable — may return error or empty response
- Overly broad term query returns thousands of results — use limit/offset to paginate
- Payment not received — x402 payment required before response is served

## How this service works

Search US federal biomedical research grants via NIH RePORTER. Filter by term (free-text over project title, terms, and abstract), org (funded institution name), pi (principal-investigator name), and/or fiscalYear; page with limit (1-50) and offset. Returns each award with project number, title, fiscal year, award amount (USD), contact PI, organization (name, city, state, country, department), funding agency/institute, and project start/end dates — newest fiscal year first, with a total match count. Data: NIH RePORTER, free and public-domain. Fresh post-training award data agents cannot know; pair with /api/research/org (ROR) and /api/research/author (ORCID). Use for funding landscape research, competitor/lab tracking, and grant-opportunity context.

## Output

Returns a paginated list of federal research award records matching the query, including award title, agency name, principal investigator, organization, fiscal year, project number, and dollar amount, plus total count and data source attribution.

## Example request

```json
{
 "input": {
  "type": "http",
  "method": "GET",
  "queryParams": {
   "term": "artificial intelligence",
   "limit": 10,
   "offset": 0,
   "fiscalYear": 2025
  }
 }
}
```

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "queryParams"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "const": "GET"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "properties": {
      "pi": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Principal-investigator name."
      },
      "org": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Funded organization name."
      },
      "term": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Free-text search over project title, terms, and abstract."
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "default": 10,
       "maximum": 50,
       "minimum": 1
      },
      "offset": {
       "type": "integer",
       "default": 0,
       "minimum": 0
      },
      "fiscalYear": {
       "type": "integer",
       "description": "US federal fiscal year, e.g. 2026."
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/2s-research-funding-awards-lookup-54bddb65/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from 2s.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/2s.io/llms.txt)