zalizedata/us-research-grants-nih-nsf-dataset

US Research Grants (NIH + NSF)

Federal research funding as analysis-ready tables: NIH ExPORTER project grants and NSF awards with amounts, institutions, investigators and program metadata (no abstract full text in open packages).

Part of the DataForge Open Data program — full production packages, free for academic and personal use. Canonical dataset page: https://data.zalize.com/datasets/us-research-grants-nih-nsf-dataset

Formats & how to load

Native parquet (snappy) shards live under data/<table>/ and are rendered directly by the Dataset Viewer above. Original release zips (with CSV/JSONL copies, data dictionary, datasheet and QA report) are archived under archive/ and on https://dl.zalize.com/open-data.

Table (config)	Rows	Parquet shards	Size
awards	3,514,467	1	250.1 MB
nih_clinical_studies	39,313	1	2.1 MB
nih_patents	92,343	1	4.4 MB
nih_projects	2,951,523	1	324.8 MB
nih_publications	3,078,034	2	518.9 MB
nih_publink	7,329,428	1	79.5 MB
nsf_awards	562,944	1	55.4 MB
org_year_funding	229,919	1	3.1 MB
pi_award_edges	3,866,665	1	136.9 MB
pi_profiles	532,881	1	21.1 MB
project_publication_counts	436,062	1	4.6 MB

# pandas
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_parquet("hf://datasets/zalizedata/us-research-grants-nih-nsf-dataset/data/awards/awards-00000-of-00001.parquet")

# polars (lazy, all shards)
import polars as pl
lf = pl.scan_parquet("hf://datasets/zalizedata/us-research-grants-nih-nsf-dataset/data/awards/*.parquet")

# duckdb
import duckdb
rel = duckdb.sql("SELECT * FROM 'hf://datasets/zalizedata/us-research-grants-nih-nsf-dataset/data/awards/*.parquet' LIMIT 10")

Archived zips: research_grants-tier1-L-2026-08-05.zip, research_grants-tier1-M-2026-08-05.zip, research_grants-tier1-S-2026-08-05.zip

Packages in this repo

Package	Tier	Rows	Size	SHA-256
research_grants-tier1-S-2026-08-05.zip	S	42,609	5.9 MB	707157ec89e2e5d679487c00205c950f161ce8b4a93da021de269de53521bb0c
research_grants-tier1-M-2026-08-05.zip	M	785,707	55.5 MB	3179d750ec6dc37fcaf56bd0be04df73c08d09119b32aa0c06900dbcf485ef3c
research_grants-tier1-L-2026-08-05.zip	L	22,633,579	2.32 GB	747b3a036820a3bc6ebc25cf4d17bac0c052fad266d45822caa9a36a686f0cf1

All files are also served from the machine-readable open-data index: https://dl.zalize.com/open-data (per-package URL: https://dl.zalize.com/open-data/<package_id>).

What you get

• S — Starter slice: 43K recent awards
• M — Research pack: 786K rows across NIH + NSF
• L — Full history incl. all award years and linkage tables
• Data dictionary, datasheet and QA report included with every package

Use cases

• Funding-landscape and grant-strategy research
• University and PI benchmarking
• Tech-transfer and innovation-chain analysis
• Joining grants to publications and patents

Source & methodology

NIH ExPORTER + NSF Awards API official bulk data

Coverage, update cadence and the full field-level data dictionary are on the dataset page: https://data.zalize.com/datasets/us-research-grants-nih-nsf-dataset (DATA-DICTIONARY.md and DATASHEET.md are inside each package zip).

License

Dual license — CC BY-NC 4.0 (DataForge curated layer; academic/personal use, attribution + backlink required); commercial use requires a DataForge commercial license. Upstream data: public domain, US federal government works (NIH ExPORTER + NSF Awards, 17 U.S.C. §105)

• Academic / personal use: CC BY-NC 4.0 on the DataForge curated layer — attribution and a backlink to https://data.zalize.com are required.
• Commercial use: requires a DataForge commercial license — contact us via the portal.
• Upstream license terms continue to apply to the underlying data.

Citation

DataForge (data.zalize.com), built from official NIH/NSF public data — https://data.zalize.com/datasets/us-research-grants-nih-nsf-dataset

DOI (Zenodo mirror): 10.5281/zenodo.21837780 · GitHub Release mirror: https://github.com/wookat/dataforge-pipelines/releases/tag/open-data-us-research-grants

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("zalizedata/us-research-grants-nih-nsf-dataset", "awards", split="train")
print(ds[0])

Available configs: awards, nih_clinical_studies, nih_patents, nih_projects, nih_publications, nih_publink, nsf_awards, org_year_funding, pi_award_edges, pi_profiles, project_publication_counts.

Related datasets

More DataForge open datasets in Government Spending & Procurement:

• US Federal Awards & Spending (USAspending)
• Government Tenders & Contract Awards (US Federal + Global Portals)
• Global Public Procurement Notices & Awards (TED + OCDS)
• Global Development Aid Activities & Transactions (IATI)

Full catalog (25 datasets): https://data.zalize.com/open-data · all HF repos: https://huggingface.co/zalizedata