# Federal R&D Award Lookup

> Federal R&D Award Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from payai.agentstools.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.008/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Fetches a single normalized federal R&D award record with full abstract, funding details, investigators, and metadata from NIH, NSF, or SBIR sources.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://payai.agentstools.dev/funding/award
- Price: $0.008/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/federal-r-d-award-lookup-ec18c14c
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_yLmTvu284rm-vt9dUjA0q

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 federal-r-d-award-lookup-ec18c14c
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the full details for NIH project number R01CA200708 — I need the abstract, funding amount, dates, principal investigators, and any linked PubMed publications.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you have a specific, known federal award identifier (NIH project number, NSF award ID, or SBIR award number) and need the full normalized record including abstract and metadata in a single cheap call. Prefer this over a search endpoint when the award ID is already known. Best for competitive analysis, grant research, due diligence on funded organizations, or linking publications to funding sources.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unrecognized award ID returns an error or empty result
- Mismatched source type (e.g. providing an NSF ID with source=nih) causes lookup failure
- Award not found in the source database returns a not-found error
- Network or upstream data source unavailability causes timeout or 5xx error

## How this service works

Fetch one federal R&D award as a normalized record with its full abstract. Give the award identifier and its source (NIH project number, NSF award id, or SBIR award) and get the title, complete abstract, agency, amount, dates, principal investigators, organization and technology terms, plus for NIH the linked publication PubMed ids. Cheap single-record pull.

## Output

Returns a normalized record containing the award title, complete abstract, funding agency, total award amount, start and end dates, list of principal investigators, recipient organization, relevant technology/keyword terms, and (for NIH awards) linked PubMed publication IDs.

## 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"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "id",
      "source"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "id": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Award identifier — NIH project number, NSF award id, or SBIR award number"
      },
      "source": {
       "enum": [
        "nih",
        "nsf",
        "sbir"
       ],
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Which source the id belongs to"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/federal-r-d-award-lookup-ec18c14c/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from payai.agentstools.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/payai.agentstools.dev/llms.txt)