About & methodology
A free, public directory for discovering U.S. medical research funding — and seeing where it comes from.
Who this is for
Four groups, each with a different question. If you are in one of them, here is the task this site is built to finish.
- Principal investigators looking for their next award. Filter open opportunities by medical domain, deadline window, and award size, then read what NIH has actually paid on that funding line since 1985 before you commit months to an application.
- Postdocs and early-career researchers. Filter by career stage to bring trainee, fellowship, and career-development calls to the top, instead of reading past R01s that require an independent appointment you don't have yet. The filter ranks rather than hides: most sponsors never state a career stage, and those calls are listed after the ones that do — silence in a record is not a rejection.
- Research development and grants-office teams. Track the whole landscape across domains and sponsors in one view, share a filtered search as a link, and see which sponsors fund your institution's areas.
- Anyone mapping a research direction. Look up who funds a topic, at what scale, and how consistently — whether you are choosing a direction, writing a review, or reporting on where medical research money goes.
Every one of those tasks is free and needs no account; saving grants, tracking applications, and matching need one (free). What the site does not do is decide whether you are eligible: each opportunity shows a “Can I apply?” summary read from the sponsor's own announcement, and the sponsor's page is always the authority.
Where the data comes from
We aggregate information only from authoritative, verifiable public funding portals:
- Federal agencies — opportunities pulled from the official Grants.gov API (e.g., NIH, CDC, AHRQ).
- Nonprofit foundations — recognized disease and research foundations whose grant pages we read and URL-verify.
- Aggregators — licensed or widely recognized funding directories.
How to use this site responsibly
- Treat listings as a starting point — always confirm eligibility, award amounts, and deadlines on the official source.
- Apply only through the sponsor's official website, linked from each grant.
- Dates and amounts can change between refreshes; the sponsor's page is the source of truth.
Data integrity
Open Grant is read-only — it never alters source records. If the live data service is briefly down, it serves the most recent verified snapshot.
Live data status
That is a claim, so here is the evidence — read from the running server as this page loads: which feed answered, how long ago, what it fell back to, and the rules behind every figure.