# National Endowment for the Humanities

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/national-endowment-for-the-humanities/  
**Website:** https://www.neh.gov/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 7.6 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 7.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 11.1 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **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.

## Security (1)

- **National Endowment For The Humanities Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **National Endowment For The Humanities Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Federal-Government, Humanities, Grants, Open Data

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/national-endowment-for-the-humanities/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.