Connect an AI client

The grant data behind this site is available to any AI assistant through the public OpenNIH MCP server: read-only, no account, rate limited per IP. Interactive surfaces such as corrections and the on-site analysis have no MCP counterpart.

Endpoint
https://mcp.opennih.org/mcp
Auth
None
Coverage
FY1985–2026

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http --scope user OpenNIH https://mcp.opennih.org/mcp

Then run /mcp in a session and confirm OpenNIH is connected.

Any MCP client

https://mcp.opennih.org/mcp

Add it as a remote server over Streamable HTTP — not stdio.

What it will and will not tell you

  • A missing award amount is reported as Not reported, never as $0.
  • Institution rankings are competitive RPG-research only, so their totals are not comparable to all-mechanism NIH funding totals.
  • The corpus is a dated snapshot, not a live mirror of RePORTER. Ask the server for its source status to see the cutoff.

How the numbers are built