METHODOLOGY
How Open Medici checks and publishes records.
Open Medici does not run the listed programs. Records link to official program sources. Unsupported or conflicting prose is omitted, and missing structured values stay blank.
What belongs in the directory
Open Medici lists fellowships, grants, scholarships, prizes, residencies, and funds with a public official source and a clear route to apply or be nominated.
We do not list pay-to-apply or pay-to-participate programs. Applicants should not have to pay an application fee or a program fee to be considered.
A program can be open, between cycles, or retained as verified history. If we cannot check the source or basic eligibility, we do not publish the record.
Sources
We prefer pages published by the program or organization for eligibility, deadlines, funding, applications, program status, and recipient or award claims. Each record links to the official program page. Some records include additional source links.
A news article, database, or search result can help us find a program, but it does not replace the source used to publish a fact.
Source-check dates
sourceCheckedAt records when Open Medici last checked a source. It does not mean the source is still unchanged. If we do not know the date, we omit it.
Always open the official source before acting on a deadline, eligibility rule, funding amount, or application instruction.
Program status
We publish a program status only when it has a check date, source, and short explanation. Earlier statuses remain in the source history.
Accepting applications, between cycles, active without public applications, paused, ended, renamed or moved, inaccessible, and unclear are separate states. An ended program does not appear as current. Paused and past records remain available as history.
Eligibility and funding uncertainty
Open Medici leaves missing or unclear eligibility and funding blank. We do not treat an unstated rule as proof that somebody qualifies, and we do not turn promotional language into a funding amount.
What gets published
A program or organization appears only after a person checks it against a public source. Unsupported or conflicting prose stays out of public responses. Review notes and automation data remain private.
Contact messages, update submissions, possible sources, uploaded files, and software suggestions remain private. A person decides which facts to publish after checking the source.
Corrections
Send the exact official page and name the fact that changed. We keep the previous source and record the correction instead of replacing uncertain history without explanation.
Send a sourced update → For a methodology or privacy concern, contact the project →
Recipient and award publication
Recipient and award detail pages are marked noindex and omitted from the sitemap. Existing recipient API paths remain available for compatibility while the source audit is completed.
The audit checks whether a public source identifies each person as a recipient. A submitted name, discovered roster, or software suggestion is not enough evidence.