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org.opennih/opennih

MCP serverVerified domain · opennih.orgRemote● LiveFree to try

Entity-resolved NIH grant corpus (FY1985-2026) via 14 read-only, provenance-carrying MCP tools.

Install

Remote server: your requests and data go to mcp.opennih.org. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http opennih https://mcp.opennih.org/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.

What it can do

The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.

  • source_status — Use this tool when the user asks whether the OpenNIH corpus is loaded, which official sidecars are available, or how stale the data might be
  • search_grants — Use this tool when the user asks to find NIH grants — by topic, principal investigator, institution, NIH Institute/Center, activity code, fi
  • rank_institutions — Use this tool when the user asks which institutions get the most NIH money — 'top NIH-funded universities', 'where does NCI money go', 'rank
  • get_pi_profile — Use this tool when the user asks about one researcher — 'how much NIH funding does Dr. X have', 'list this PI's grants', 'who does she colla
  • get_institution_profile — Use this tool when the user asks about one named institution — 'what is Harvard's NIH funding history', 'which PIs does this university fund
  • funding_trend — Use this tool to get yearly NIH funding totals and grant counts. Returns a time series for the whole NIH, one Institute/Center, one activity
  • topic_trend — Use this tool when the user asks how a research topic has trended over time — 'is CRISPR funding growing', 'how many p53 grants per year', '
  • activity_code_distribution — Use this tool when the user asks what KINDS of awards NIH (or one Institute) makes — 'how much goes to R01s vs training grants', 'what share
  • institution_concentration — Use this tool when the user asks how concentrated or unequal NIH funding is across institutions — 'is NIH money concentrated in a few univer
  • mechanism_mix — Use this tool when the user asks what mix of award types ONE institution wins — 'is this university mostly R01s or centers', 'how much of it
  • ic_topic_cross — Use this tool when the user asks what ONE NIH Institute funds in a topic — 'what is NCI spending on immunotherapy', 'does NIMH fund psychede
  • funding_growth — Use this tool when the user asks about the RATE of change rather than the level — 'is this university's NIH funding growing', 'what's the CA
  • search — Use this tool when a research or connector client needs citation-shaped NIH grant hits for a natural-language query. Returns {"results": [{i
  • fetch — Use this tool to retrieve the full record for one NIH grant by its id. Returns {id, title, text, url, metadata} with url set to the public O

KitScout test notes

Not tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.

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