Data, methods & open API.

How the desk works.

A small Cloudflare Worker asks each source’s official public API for new records every 6 hours (at 17 minutes past midnight, 6 a.m., noon and 6 p.m. UTC) and stores them. These pages read that store. If a source fails, the desk keeps its last good records and marks the source as retrying. If the live store can’t be reached, the pages show the snapshot saved when the site was last built, with its date.

• Nothing is estimated. Counts and sums are computed from the records each source returned for the stated window. Where a source doesn’t publish an amount, the desk shows a dash.
• Every record links to its source. The source page is the authoritative record; check it before you act.
• Relevance filters are simple word filters (child, children, pediatric, adolescent, youth, infant, early childhood and similar). They miss some relevant records and include a few that aren’t; the “how it’s counted” note under each number says exactly what was counted.
• No personal data is collected. The pages set no cookies and load no trackers. Investigator and author names appear only as the funder or journal published them.

Sources

The children’s arts fundraisers come from a curated list built from public campaign pages (GlobalGiving’s public sitemap and project pages, Givebutter and Classy campaign pages), using only facts shown on those pages, and checked on Oct 29, 2026. The WHO Global Health Observatory API was returning server errors on Oct 29, 2026, so child-mortality context comes from World Bank Open Data, which republishes the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation figures. GrantNav search pages are not used because their robots.txt asks crawlers not to; UK grants come from the 360Giving Datastore API instead.

Open API and feed

The data is free to reuse with attribution to each original source, under that source’s own terms. No key is needed. Please cache responses; the data changes at most every 6 hours.

• GET https://annmasten-desk.chrismai.workers.dev/api/desk.json · everything on the overview: stats, sources, ticker and the newest records. Add ?view=calls, awards, research, fundraisers or orgs for one section, or ?full=1 for all of it.
• GET https://annmasten-desk.chrismai.workers.dev/api/records?kind=call&q=autism&since=2026-09-01&limit=100 · filter records by kind (call, award, paper, trial, fundraiser, org, indicator), src, text q and since.
• GET https://annmasten-desk.chrismai.workers.dev/api/records.csv?kind=award&limit=1000 · the same as CSV.
• GET https://annmasten-desk.chrismai.workers.dev/api/stats, /api/sources and /api/health · headline numbers, source status and recent refresh runs.
• GET https://annmasten-desk.chrismai.workers.dev/feed.xml · Atom feed of the 80 newest calls, awards and papers.
• GET https://annmasten.org/desk/data/full.json · static snapshot served from this site.

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About this data. An independent aggregation of public data from the sources listed below. It is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any funder, institution or study listed, and it is not run by or for Professor Ann S. Masten or the University of Minnesota. Nothing here is financial, medical or legal advice; always check eligibility, deadlines and amounts on the official source page.