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NSF
Who runs NSF, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest research funding agency alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- UKRI
Measured from NSF’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit NSF01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs NSF
NSF nsf.gov
NSF is an independent federal agency that supports science and engineering in all 50 states and U.S. territories.
Wikidata: United States government agency
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What NSF tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
3 of the 15 alternatives below have fewer, 4 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to NSF
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to NSF, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
UKRI – UK Research and Innovation
Advancing knowledge, improving lives, driving growth.
Very close - 02
US government medical research agency
Very close - 03
Department of Energy
U.S. Department of Energy - Home
Very close - 04
agency of the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technologies
Very close - 05
German research funding organisation, German Research Association in English
Very close - 06
NASA
NASA.gov brings you the latest news, images and videos from America's space agency, pioneering the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.
Very close - 07
日本学術振興会
日本学術振興会は、学術研究の助成、研究者の養成のための資金の支給、学術に関する国際交流の促進、その他学術の振興に関する事業を行うため、平成15年10月1日に設立された文部科学省所管の独立行政法人です。
Very close - 08
国立研究開発法人科学技術振興機構
国立研究開発法人科学技術振興機構(略称JST)は、知の創出から研究成果の社会還元とその基盤整備を担うわが国の中核的機関です。世界トップレベルの研究開発を行うネットワーク型研究所として、未来共創イノベーションを先導します。
Very close - 09
Homepage | NWO
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Very close - 10
Home | Grants.gov
USA federal website
Very close - 11
国立研究開発法人日本医療研究開発機構
Very close - 12
NEDO 国立研究開発法人 新エネルギー・産業技術総合開発機構
国立研究開発法人新エネルギー・産業技術総合開発機構(NEDO)は、持続可能な社会の実現に必要な技術開発の推進を通じて、イノベーションを創出する、国立研究開発法人です。
Very close - 13
Home - Finep
government agency of Brazil
Very close - 14
scientific agency of the United States government
Very close - 15
U.S. federal government department concerning education
Very close - 16
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Our work helps shape sound policies, inform public opinion, and advance the pursuit of science, engineering, and medicine.
Very close - 17
Comprehensive Cancer Information - NCI
Accurate, up-to-date, comprehensive cancer information from the U.S. government's principal agency for cancer research.
Very close - 18
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | US EPA
Website of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). EPA's mission is to protect human health and the environment.
Very close - 19
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australian Government - CSIRO
As Australia's national science agency and innovation catalyst, we solve the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology.
Very close - 20
Inserm
L'Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (Inserm) est le seul organisme de recherche public français entièrement dédié à la santé humaine. Notre objectif : améliorer la santé de tous par le progrès des connaissances sur le vivant et sur les maladies, l’innovation dans les traitements et la recherche en santé publique.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles NSF’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones NSF uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what NSF adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 14 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 29 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to NSF’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CMS
- Drupal header x-generator: Drupal 11 (https://www.drupal.org)
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://www.nsf.gov/core/assets/vendor/jquery/jquery.min.js?v=4.0.0
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: bXIfg6grtOIa4XFapOan-TtTwYgN0C_MQkQEXS1TPqZ7R41vJJSrnA==
- jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/js-cookie@3.0.5/dist/js.cookie.min.js
- Web servers
- Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by Drupal (header x-generator: Drupal 11 (https://www.drupal.org))
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT v=spf1 ip4:128.150.5.20/26 ip4:66.77.7.161/32 ip4:66.77.15.226/32 ip4…
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 ip4:128.150.5.20/26 ip4:66.77.7.161/32 ip4:66.77.15.226/32 ip4…
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-sign-verification=386fe6a5405fa717bbebc4eb4033172a5a3ae93031a11…
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=ZxoQv8eEes8m9y/CQit7XinKIZ2stkuJYobPGxy…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=vA4yjJZWJbPcVjZIBv-mY5xH88T2uNrEQTfsITLtt4s
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 ip4:128.150.5.20/26 ip4:66.77.7.161/32 ip4:66.77.15.226/32 ip4…
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_e-wubZa8RVevvUsuV9EDjg
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Microsoft 365 19/20
- Google Search Console 13/20
- Apple Business · not on nsf.gov 9/20
- Google Tag Manager 8/20
- Atlassian 7/20
- PHP 7/20
- jQuery 7/20
- Adobe 6/20
- OpenAI · not on nsf.gov 5/20
- Apache HTTP Server 4/20
- Amazon CloudFront 4/20
- Drupal 4/20
- Google Analytics · not on nsf.gov 4/20
- Miro · not on nsf.gov 3/20
- WordPress · not on nsf.gov 3/20
- DocuSign · not on nsf.gov 3/20