Get lists of funders

You can get lists of funders:

• Get all funders in OpenAlex https://api.openalex.org/funders

Which returns a response like this:

{
    "meta": {
        "count": 32437,
        "db_response_time_ms": 26,
        "page": 1,
        "per_page": 25
    },
    "results": [
        {
            "id": "https://openalex.org/F4320321001",
            "display_name": "National Natural Science Foundation of China",
            // more fields (removed to save space)
        },
        {
            "id": "https://openalex.org/F4320306076",
            "display_name": "National Science Foundation",
            // more fields (removed to save space)
        },
        // more results (removed to save space)
    ],
    "group_by": []
}

Page and sort funders

By default we return 25 results per page. You can change this default and page through funders with the per-page and page parameters:

• Get the second page of funders results, with 50 results returned per page https://api.openalex.org/funders?per-page=50&page=2

You also can sort results with the sort parameter:

• Sort funders by display name, descending https://api.openalex.org/funders?sort=display_name:desc

Continue on to learn how you can filter and search lists of funders.

Sample funders

You can use sample to get a random batch of funders. Read more about sampling and how to add a seed value here.

• Get 10 random funders https://api.openalex.org/funders?sample=10

Select fields

You can use select to limit the fields that are returned in a list of funders. More details are here.

• Display only the id, display_name, and alternate_titles within funders results https://api.openalex.org/funders?select=id,display_name,alternate_titles