National Endowment for the Humanities

aid: national-endowment-for-the-humanities
name: National Endowment for the Humanities
description: >-
  The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is the nation's largest
  public funder of the humanities, which include history, philosophy,
  literature, language, ethics, law, archaeology, political theory, comparative
  religion, anthropology, sociology, and media and cultural studies. NEH does
  not publish a fully documented public REST API, but it offers a Funded
  Project Query Form API and bulk XML datasets covering all grants awarded
  since 1965, plus evaluator and panelist information from 1988 onward.
type: Index
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created: '2024-12-03'
modified: '2026-04-28'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
  - Federal Government
  - Humanities
  - Grants
  - Open Data
apis:
  - aid: national-endowment-for-the-humanities:funded-project-query
    name: NEH Funded Project Query API
    description: >-
      Funded Project Query Form API exposing programmatic access to NEH grant
      records. Documentation is published as a PDF describing query parameters
      and response structure.
    humanURL: https://securegrants.neh.gov/publicquery/
    tags:
      - Grants
      - Humanities
      - Query
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://securegrants.neh.gov/publicquery/api.pdf
      - type: Portal
        url: https://securegrants.neh.gov/publicquery/main.aspx
      - type: BulkData
        url: https://securegrants.neh.gov/open/data/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.neh.gov/
  - type: OpenData
    url: https://www.neh.gov/data
  - type: BulkData
    url: https://securegrants.neh.gov/open/data/
  - type: Contact
    url: https://www.neh.gov/about/contact
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]