NSF Awards

Comprehensive dataset of all research grant awards made by the National Science Foundation (NSF), covering over 640,000 awards. Each row represents a single award.

Award details

• Identifiers, instrument type (Standard Grant, Continuing Grant, Contract, etc.)
• Effective and expiration dates
• Total intended and actual award amounts (USD)
• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding where applicable
• Amendment history: letter dates and incremental amendment amounts

Principal investigators

• Structured JSON per award with full name, role (PI, Co-PI, Former PI), NSF ID, email, and tenure dates

Awardee institution

• Name, legal business name, Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) and parent UEI
• Address (street, city, state, zip, country), congressional district

Performance institution

• Separate address fields for where the research is physically carried out, when different from the awardee

NSF organizational hierarchy

• Directorate and division (abbreviation and full name)
• Program elements and program references (JSON arrays)

Funding & obligations

• Appropriation and fiscal-year obligation breakdowns stored as JSON arrays, enabling longitudinal funding analysis

Free-text fields

• Full public abstract
• Project outcomes report submitted by the PI at award close-out (where available)