Resolve a funder name to its Funder Registry / FundRef id (Crossref) API

Searches the Crossref Funder Registry by name and returns canonical FundRef ids, locations, DOI URIs and alternate names. Answers 'what is the FundRef id for this funding agency?', 'which registered funder does this grant name map to?'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/science/scholar-funder-lookup

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit60/minute

Cache86400s public

sciencescholarfunderfundrefcrossrefgrantsregistryresolve

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/science/scholar-funder-lookup

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "query": "national science foundation",
  "limit": 2
}

Example response

{
  "query": "national science foundation",
  "totalMatches": 110,
  "funders": [
    {
      "fundRefId": "100000143",
      "name": "Division of Computing and Communication Foundations",
      "location": "United States",
      "doiUri": "https://doi.org/10.13039/100000143",
      "altNames": [
        "CISE/CCF",
        "Computing and Communication Foundations"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Funder name, e.g. 'national science foundation'"
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "maximum": 20,
      "default": 5
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}