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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
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 - 05
Homepage | NWO
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Very close - 06
Home | Grants.gov
USA federal website
Very close - 07
Home - Finep
government agency of Brazil
Very close - 08
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 - 09
Comprehensive Cancer Information - NCI
Accurate, up-to-date, comprehensive cancer information from the U.S. government's principal agency for cancer research.
Very close - 10
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 - 11
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 - 12
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 - 13
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Johns Hopkins APL provides solutions to complex national security and scientific challenges with technical expertise and prototyping, research and development, and analysis.
Very close - 14
Home | SAM.gov
system for tracking US federal acquisition and contracting
Very close - 15
AAAS Home | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
international non-profit organization promoting science
Very close - 16
Making government services easier to find | USAGov
Find government benefits, services, agencies, and information at USA.gov. Contact elected officials. Learn about passports, Social Security, taxes, and more.
Very close - 17
CIA
national foreign intelligence agency of the United States
Very close - 18
Home | GSA
Our mission is to deliver the best customer experience and value in real estate, acquisition, and technology services to government and the American people.
Very close - 19
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique est le plus grand organisme public français de recherche scientifique. Il exerce son activité dans
Very close - 20
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | CDC
United States government public health agency
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
- 9,196
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 36 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