# funding-search

> funding-search is a paid API for AI agents from payai.agentstools.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

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

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://payai.agentstools.dev/funding/search
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/funding-search-98eb9783
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Al1vI_Gv9s6zdFO0GYa11

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 funding-search-98eb9783
```

Example prompt: Search federal funding databases for R&D projects on CRISPR gene editing — show me up to 20 results from NIH, including the principal investigator, organization, award amount, and abstract so I can map the competitive landscape.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to map the competitive R&D funding landscape across NIH and NSF for a given technology, disease area, or mechanism. It is ideal for lead generation, competitor intelligence, grant prospecting, and identifying key investigators and institutions in a field. Prefer this over general web search when you need structured, structured grant-level data with amounts and abstracts rather than news or publication data.

## Known failure modes

- Keyword too broad returns up to limit cap with coverage note warning
- No results found for niche or misspelled keywords
- Agency filter doesn't match any known sub-agency strings, returning empty agency-filtered set
- Year filter outside available data range returns empty results
- NIH RePORTER or NSF upstream data unavailability causing 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 federally funded R&D projects matching the keyword, each including recipient organization, principal investigator name, funding agency and sub-agency, award amount, fiscal year, and project abstract. A coverage note describing the bounded scope of the scan is also returned.

## 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/funding-search-98eb9783/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)