Open Data: US Research Grants (NIH ExPORTER + NSF Awards)
Open Data: US Research Grants (NIH ExPORTER + NSF Awards) — part of the DataForge Open Data program.
Full production packages, free for academic and personal use under CC BY-NC 4.0 (attribution + backlink required). Same files as served at https://dl.zalize.com/open-data/<package_id> (machine-readable index: https://dl.zalize.com/open-data).
Packages
| Package | Tier | Rows | Size | SHA-256 | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
research_grants-tier1-S-2026-08-05 |
S | 42,609 | 0.01 GB | 707157ec89e2e5d679487c00205c950f161ce8b4a93da021de269de53521bb0c |
Single discipline, single year: every FY2025 National Cancer Institute (NCI) award with full NIH project schema, PI–award edges and per-institution funding aggregates |
research_grants-tier1-M-2026-08-05 |
M | 785,707 | 0.05 GB | 3179d750ec6dc37fcaf56bd0be04df73c08d09119b32aa0c06900dbcf485ef3c |
NIH + NSF complete 2025: unified award table, full per-source schemas, PI normalization (profiles + edges), institution×year aggregates and project→publication counts |
research_grants-tier1-L-2026-08-05 |
L | 22,633,579 | 2.32 GB | 747b3a036820a3bc6ebc25cf4d17bac0c052fad266d45822caa9a36a686f0cf1 |
The entire longitudinal library: NIH FY1985–FY2025 + NSF 1952–2026 unified awards, full per-source schemas, PI cumulative funding profiles, institution×year aggregates, publications/link-table/patents/clinical-studies reference tables (annual subscription) |
Packages larger than GitHub's 2 GiB asset limit are split into
.partNNvolumes.
Reassemble with:cat <name>.zip.part* > <name>.zipthen verify the SHA-256 above.
Data dictionary & datasheet
Field-level documentation lives in this repo under datasets/ and on the portal page: https://data.zalize.com/datasets/us-research-grants-nih-nsf-dataset
License
CC BY-NC 4.0 (DataForge curated layer) / commercial license — upstream: NIH/NSF public domain (17 U.S.C. §105)
- Academic / personal use: CC BY-NC 4.0 on the DataForge curated layer — attribution + backlink required.
- Commercial use: requires a DataForge commercial license — contact us via the portal.
- Upstream source: NIH ExPORTER + NSF Awards API official bulk data. Upstream license terms (public domain / CC BY / OGL where applicable) continue to apply to the underlying data.
Citation / attribution
Please credit:
DataForge (data.zalize.com), built from official NIH/NSF public data — https://data.zalize.com
For attribution-licensed upstreams keep the upstream credit (PatentsView CC BY 4.0; "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0").
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