# Federal R&D Funding Search (NIH RePORTER + NSF)

> Federal R&D Funding Search (NIH RePORTER + NSF) is a paid API for AI agents from api.agentstools.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Search federally funded R&D projects by keyword across NIH and NSF databases, returning ranked results with PI, org, agency, funding amount, year, and abstract.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.agentstools.dev/funding/search
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/federal-r-d-funding-search-nih-reporter-nsf-b7f261d4
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_92qsdzt0h8b-pgyfIE0b_

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-funding-search-nih-reporter-nsf-b7f261d4
```

Example prompt: Can you search for federally funded R&D projects related to 'CAR-T cell therapy' — show me up to 20 results from NIH only for fiscal year 2023, including the PI, organization, funding amount, and abstract?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need structured, ranked federal grant data from NIH and NSF for competitor landscape mapping, lead generation, or research trend analysis — especially when you need PI and organizational affiliation alongside abstract text and dollar amounts. Prefer this over general web search when you need machine-readable, structured grant metadata rather than free-form search results.

## Known failure modes

- No results found for obscure or misspelled keywords
- Rate limiting or payment failure returning 402 error
- Year filter outside supported range (1980–2100) causing validation error
- Agency filter with unrecognized sub-agency name returning empty results
- Timeout on broad high-frequency keywords returning partial results

## How this service works

Find federally funded R&D projects by technology topic across NIH RePORTER and NSF. Give a keyword such as a mechanism, disease area or technology and get a ranked list of funded projects with the recipient organization, principal investigator, agency, amount, year and abstract, for competitor-landscape mapping and lead generation. Bounded scan with a coverage note.

## Output

A ranked list of up to 25 federally funded R&D projects matching the keyword, each with recipient organization, principal investigator name, funding agency and sub-agency, award amount, fiscal year, and abstract text, plus a coverage note indicating the scope of the scan.

## 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": [
      "keyword"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "year": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 2100,
       "minimum": 1980,
       "description": "Restrict to this fiscal year"
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 25,
       "minimum": 1,
       "description": "Max results to return, default 15"
      },
      "phase": {
       "enum": [
        "I",
        "II"
       ],
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Restrict to SBIR/STTR Phase I or II awards"
      },
      "keyword": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Technology, mechanism or disease-area topic"
      },
      "agencies": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "string"
       },
       "description": "Optional filter to these funding agencies or sub-agencies, e.g. NIH, NSF, NIAID (matched against agency and sub-agency)."
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "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-funding-search-nih-reporter-nsf-b7f261d4/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.agentstools.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.agentstools.dev/llms.txt)