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
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/national-endowment-for-the-humanities/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2024-12-03'
modified: '2026-10-06'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Federal Government
- Humanities
- Grants
- Open Data
tags_raw:
- Federal Government
- Humanities
- Grants
- Open Data
- Federal-Government
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: Plans
  url: plans/national-endowment-for-the-humanities-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/national-endowment-for-the-humanities-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/national-endowment-for-the-humanities-finops.yml
- url: https://www.neh.gov/rss.xml
  type: BlogRSS
- 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