NSF award funding velocity by research division, quarterly

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Quarter x NSF-division panel of U.S. federal science and engineering research funding from the NSF Award Search API v1 (keyless, official), trailing eight complete calendar quarters (2024-Q3 through 2026-Q2 as of 2026-09-28; the window rolls forward each quarter). One row per NSF division and calendar quarter: award counts and obligated dollars (the publisher's fundsObligatedAmt, as currently reported), median and mean award size, the division's share of quarterly NSF obligations, within-window year-over-year change in awards and funds (null for the first four quarters), awardee concentration (HHI over UEI-resolved entities on the 0-10000 scale, top awardee and share), a documented 0-100 funding-velocity score with deterministic rank (null where YoY is unavailable), and breakout/contraction flags. Method: per-quarter paging on the award (obligation) date (rpp=100, offset, polite 0.4 s pacing, retry-with-backoff); awards deduped by NSF award id with a loud fail if any record's award date falls outside its queried quarter; entity resolution by federal UEI (~98% coverage) with a conservative normalized-name fallback; deterministic 16-hex row hashes. Units: USD; shares and YoY as fractions. Caveats: funds are cumulative obligations as currently reported, so historical quarters revise upward as continuing grants receive increments — an unchanged upstream pull re-ingests as a byte-identical no-op, while upstream revisions legitimately mint new snapshots; only complete calendar quarters are published; the division vocabulary is empirical. U.S. federal government work, public domain (17 U.S.C. 105) — commercial_use = yes, attribution "Source: U.S. National Science Foundation". Primary key: (quarter, division_abbr). Join keys: quarter, division_abbr, country_code = USA. Secondary theme: education. Cadence: quarterly.

Source: NSF Award Search — Research Funding Intelligence
Rows: 270
Columns: 24
Source cadence: Quarterly
Last refreshed: Sep 28, 2026
Theme: government

Column	Type	Description
quarter	string	Calendar quarter of the award's obligation date (the API's award date, which equals the initial amendment date), format YYYY-QN; primary key with division_abbr; join key.
division_abbr	string	NSF division abbreviation (e.g. DMS, IIS, CBET) from the award record; primary key with quarter; join key.
division_name	string	Modal NSF division name for the abbreviation (alphabetical tiebreak).
directorate_abbr	string	NSF directorate abbreviation owning the division (e.g. MPS, CSE, ENG).
directorate_name	string	Modal NSF directorate name for the abbreviation.
country_code	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code; always USA (U.S. federal program).
awards_n	integer	Distinct NSF award ids obligated in the quarter (includes awards whose amount is not reported). (unit: count)
funds_obligated_usd	float	Sum of the publisher's fundsObligatedAmt over awards with a reported amount. The amount is the currently reported cumulative obligation, so historical quarters revise upward as continuing grants receive increments. (unit: USD)
median_award_usd	float	Median fundsObligatedAmt over awards with a reported amount; null when none reported. (unit: USD)
mean_award_usd	float	Mean fundsObligatedAmt over awards with a reported amount; null when none reported. (unit: USD)
share_of_nsf_funds	float	Division funds_obligated_usd divided by total NSF obligations in the quarter. (unit: fraction)
yoy_awards_pct	float	Within-window year-over-year fractional change of awards_n versus the same quarter one year earlier; null for the first four quarters or a zero prior-year base. (unit: fraction)
yoy_funds_pct	float	Within-window year-over-year fractional change of funds_obligated_usd versus the same quarter one year earlier; null for the first four quarters or a zero prior-year base. (unit: fraction)
n_awardees	integer	Distinct resolved awardee entities (federal UEI, normalized-name fallback) receiving funds in the division and quarter. (unit: count)
hhi_awardee_concentration	float	Herfindahl-Hirschman index of obligated funds across resolved awardee entities (sum of squared fund shares x 10000); higher means more concentrated. (unit: HHI (0-10000))
top_awardee_name	string	Modal raw awardee name of the entity with the largest obligated funds in the division and quarter (funds desc, entity asc tiebreak).
top_awardee_share_pct	float	The top awardee's share of the division's quarterly obligated funds. (unit: fraction)
velocity_score	float	Documented 0-100 funding-velocity composite: 100 * min-max(0.45 * min-max(log10 funds) + 0.35 * min-max(YoY funds clipped to [-1, 2]) + 0.20 * min-max(YoY awards clipped to [-1, 2])); the weighted composite is min-maxed within the snapshot so scores always span 0-100; null where YoY is unavailable. (unit: score (0-100))
velocity_rank	integer	Deterministic rank 1..N among scored rows by velocity_score desc, funds_obligated_usd desc, division_abbr asc tiebreak; null where YoY is unavailable. (unit: rank)
breakout_flag	boolean	True when yoy_funds_pct >= 0.5 and awards_n >= 10; false when YoY is unavailable.
contraction_flag	boolean	True when yoy_funds_pct <= -0.3; false when YoY is unavailable.
as_of	string	Last day of the last complete quarter in the window (stable across re-runs on identical input); ISO date.
source_url	string	Canonical NSF Award Search API endpoint the quarter pulls were issued against; per-row provenance.
row_hash	string	Deterministic 16-hex sha256 over the row's content fields (as_of excluded); drives snapshot idempotency.

First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.

quarter	division_abbr	division_name	directorate_abbr	directorate_name	country_code	awards_n	funds_obligated_usd	median_award_usd	mean_award_usd	share_of_nsf_funds	yoy_awards_pct	yoy_funds_pct	n_awardees	hhi_awardee_concentration	top_awardee_name	top_awardee_share_pct	velocity_score	velocity_rank	breakout_flag	contraction_flag	as_of	source_url	row_hash
2024-Q3	AGS	Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences	GEO	Directorate for Geosciences	USA	129	71,603,327	366,410	555,064.55	0.02	—	—	87	575.98	University Corporation For Atmospheric Res	0.199	—	—	false	false	2026-06-30	https://www.research.gov/awardapi-service/v1/awards.json	17bc75a9eb5ed2df
2024-Q3	AST	Division Of Astronomical Sciences	MPS	Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences	USA	154	132,608,790	415,502	861,096.039	0.036	—	—	87	1,250.803	Associated Universities, Inc.	0.327	—	—	false	false	2026-06-30	https://www.research.gov/awardapi-service/v1/awards.json	a030809295cf76e7
2024-Q3	BCS	Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences	SBE	Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences	USA	171	46,737,110	195,040	273,316.433	0.013	—	—	111	195.8	University of South Carolina at Columbia	0.054	—	—	false	false	2026-06-30	https://www.research.gov/awardapi-service/v1/awards.json	8a9b774e6eae2d1b
2024-Q3	CBET	Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems	ENG	Directorate for Engineering	USA	228	83,435,416	339,077	365,944.807	0.023	—	—	131	131.436	Georgia Tech Research Corporation	0.036	—	—	false	false	2026-06-30	https://www.research.gov/awardapi-service/v1/awards.json	fc15511a3d901a26
2024-Q3	CCF	Division of Computing and Communication Foundations	CSE	Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering	USA	142	74,841,418	316,249	527,052.239	0.021	—	—	94	247.823	University of Texas at Austin	0.067	—	—	false	false	2026-06-30	https://www.research.gov/awardapi-service/v1/awards.json	eaa1cd53d6b9f903
2024-Q3	CHE	Division Of Chemistry	MPS	Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences	USA	154	97,334,283	465,000	632,040.799	0.027	—	—	103	378.372	University of Chicago	0.134	—	—	false	false	2026-06-30	https://www.research.gov/awardapi-service/v1/awards.json	ae92069e0d38bde0
2024-Q3	CMMI	Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation	ENG	Directorate for Engineering	USA	191	72,773,696	332,960	381,014.115	0.02	—	—	102	180.782	Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor	0.063	—	—	false	false	2026-06-30	https://www.research.gov/awardapi-service/v1/awards.json	b53f5278cb8f795f
2024-Q3	CNS	Division Of Computer and Network Systems	CSE	Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering	USA	292	137,912,972	300,000	472,304.699	0.038	—	—	141	277.212	University of Utah	0.11	—	—	false	false	2026-06-30	https://www.research.gov/awardapi-service/v1/awards.json	9c844f7b9e433e8d
2024-Q3	CRSP	Office of the Chief of Research Security Strategy and Policy (CRSP)	O/D	Office Of The Director	USA	2	45,782,995	22,891,497.5	22,891,497.5	0.013	—	—	2	5,778.542	University of Washington	0.697	—	—	false	false	2026-06-30	https://www.research.gov/awardapi-service/v1/awards.json	2a0128912a9ed4f6
2024-Q3	DBI	Division of Biological Infrastructure	BIO	Directorate for Biological Sciences	USA	87	118,121,997	495,808	1,357,724.103	0.032	—	—	80	719.52	University of California-Santa Barbara	0.136	—	—	false	false	2026-06-30	https://www.research.gov/awardapi-service/v1/awards.json	650f95b463259869

Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).

cURL

curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/nsf_award_intel/nsf_award_velocity_quarterly" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'

Python

import requests

ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/nsf_award_intel/nsf_award_velocity_quarterly").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")

# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
    print(row)

API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/nsf_award_intel/nsf_award_velocity_quarterly

Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.

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NSF Award Search — Research Funding Intelligence. (2026). NSF award funding velocity by research division, quarterly [Data set, snapshot 20260928T090708Z-fe9e2aa84bb6, sha256 fe9e2aa84bb6]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-28, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/nsf_award_intel/nsf_award_velocity_quarterly?snapshot=20260928T090708Z-fe9e2aa84bb6

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@misc{dz_nsf_award_intel_nsf_award_velocity_quart_fe9e2aa8,
  title        = {{NSF award funding velocity by research division, quarterly}},
  author       = {{NSF Award Search — Research Funding Intelligence}},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Datazimuts},
  howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/nsf_award_intel/nsf_award_velocity_quarterly?snapshot=20260928T090708Z-fe9e2aa84bb6}},
  note         = {Snapshot 20260928T090708Z-fe9e2aa84bb6, sha256 fe9e2aa84bb65987dd83192e5f6125861113fddd515c0296ce3ac2bcd1890c71; accessed 2026-09-28}
}

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