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Standard Application Process (SAP) Portal for Federal Confidential Data

Interagency Council on Statistical Policy (portal hosted by the U.S. National Science Foundation)

NontraditionalIn-kind resource

A single portal, created under the Evidence Act, through which researchers apply for access to confidential data assets held by 16 federal statistical agencies, with a searchable inventory of what each agency holds.

Indicative award
Not a cash award (not a cash award)No money is awarded. The resource is application access to restricted federal data assets. The portal page publishes no fee information.
Timing
Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Applications are submitted through the portal as projects arise; timing is set per agency and no deadlines are published on the portal landing page.
Who can apply
Doctoral candidate, Postdoctoral, Early-career faculty, Mid-career & senior, Any faculty rank, Practitioner
Eligibility
Applications are made through the portal to individual agencies; each participating agency sets its own eligibility, security, and confidentiality-training requirements. The portal itself does not publish blanket eligibility criteria or fee schedules.
SSWR clusters
Topics
confidential federal data · evidence act · data inventory · restricted access
Apply at
https://sap.nsf.gov/
This entry
Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.

Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.

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