🇺🇸 Federal Grant Opportunities — Grants.gov Daily Digest (MCP)

The full Grants.gov official feed: every US federal grant opportunity posted, with award ceiling/floor, eligibility, CFDA programs and — agency contact people with emails & phones, FREE. Monitor mode = your daily "what new money just dropped" digest. No API key. MCP-ready.

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✨ The 6 things ChatGPT can't do (built in)

Ingredient	Here
🔒 Hard-to-get data	Official v1 API chained: search2 + fetchOpportunity per opportunity — synopsis, award ceiling/floor/estimated funding, eligibility lists, agency contacts, deadline descriptions. 100% real, zero hallucination.
🛠️ Hardest problems, solved	Server-side keyword/status/posting-window filters + client-side ceiling window, eligibility ("nonprofit", "tribal", "small business"), agency match and deadline-within-N-days certainty.
⚙️ Automation	monitor + daily schedule = "every federal grant posted yesterday" in your inbox — grant writers and nonprofits pay $100–500/month for exactly this service.
🧠 AI-agent cheap	$0.001 start + $0.001 per opportunity — grant databases charge subscriptions; we charge cents.

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🚀 3 recipes that pay

#1 — Daily new-money digest (grant writers, nonprofits)

{ "mode": "monitor", "daysBack": 1, "oppStatuses": ["posted"] }

→ Schedule 07:00 → every grant opportunity posted yesterday, with contact email + deadline → Slack/email digest. Never miss an RFP again.

#2 — Nonprofit eligibility scan

{ "mode": "search", "keywordQuery": "climate", "eligibilityIncludes": "nonprofit", "minCeiling": 100000, "daysBack": 14, "maxResults": 200 }

→ Open federal climate funding a nonprofit can actually apply for — with ceiling above $100k and the program officer's email.

#3 — Deadline watch (never miss a closing date)

{ "mode": "monitor", "closeWithinDays": 14, "daysBack": 7, "agencyIncludes": "National Science" }

→ NSF opportunities closing within 2 weeks — freshly re-surfaced every run.

MCP: https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=amygraphics/grants-gov-monitor — your agent answers "any new federal grants for rural broadband this week?" with the actual official record, amount and deadline.

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📦 What each row contains

oppId · number · title · agencyName/agencyCode · oppStatus (posted/forecasted/closed) · docType (grants notice/synopsis) · openDateISO/closeDateISO/postingDateISO · synopsisDesc · awardCeiling / awardFloor / estimatedFunding · costSharing · eligibilities[] + eligibilityDesc (who may apply) · fundingInstruments[] (grant/coop agreement/procurement) · fundingCategoryDesc · contactName / contactEmail / contactPhone — free · deadlineDesc · cfdaNumbers[] + cfdaPrograms[] (assistance listings) · url · isNew/firstSeenAt (monitor).

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🆚 Competition

Actor	Pricing	Monitor	Contacts free
Instrumentl / GrantStation (SaaS)	$100–500/month	partial	partial
Other grants scrapers	per-call, no dedupe	❌	❌
us	$0.001/opportunity	✅ KV dedupe	✅ always

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🧪 Input reference

Key	Default	What it does
mode	search	monitor = only opportunities never returned before (KV grantsgov-seen, keyed id+status)
keywordQuery	—	server-side full-text filter
oppStatuses	posted	posted / forecasted / closed / archived
daysBack	7	posting-date window (weekends usually post nothing)
keywords, agencyIncludes, eligibilityIncludes	—	client-side refinement
minCeiling/maxCeiling	—	award-ceiling window ($)
closeWithinDays	—	deadline watch (today → today+N)
maxResults/maxProfiles/maxPages	60 / =maxResults / 20	caps (500 rows/search page)

Fair use — Grants.gov is the official US federal grant portal; its v1 API documented in the portal's own frontend is open and anonymous. We pace politely and pass the posting-date window server-side (dateRange) to keep traffic minimal.

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💰 Pricing

• $0.001 actor start · $0.001 per opportunity — contacts, ceilings, eligibility FREE

Rows	Cost (us)	vs SaaS
60 opportunities (weekly scan)	~$0.06	$100+/month
Daily all-federal digest (30 days)	~$1–3/month	$100–500/month

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