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National Endowment for the Humanities

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.

National Endowment for the Humanities publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Federal Government, Humanities, Grants, and Open Data.

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16.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemium
1 APIs
Federal GovernmentHumanitiesGrantsOpen Data

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Composite quality — 16.1/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 5.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

NEH Funded Project Query API

Funded Project Query Form API exposing programmatic access to NEH grant records. Documentation is published as a PDF describing query parameters and response structure.

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

National Endowment For The Humanities Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

National Endowment For The Humanities Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

National Endowment For The Humanities Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

National Endowment For The Humanities Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Contact
Contact

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Website
Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

OpenData
OpenData
 BulkData
BulkData

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/national-endowment-for-the-humanities.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/national-endowment-for-the-humanities/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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: DomainSecurity
  url: security/national-endowment-for-the-humanities-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/national-endowment-for-the-humanities
- 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: kin@apievangelist.com