Grants.gov Scraper & Grant Finder API: NSF, NIH Fellowships

Grant & Fellowship Radar: Grants.gov, NSF & NIH Funding Alerts API

Grant & Fellowship Radar turns three official U.S. government funding APIs into one clean, deduplicated feed of open grant and fellowship opportunities and newly funded research awards. Filter by research field keywords, agency, applicant eligibility, funding category and deadline window, then schedule it in since-last-run mode to get only new or changed opportunities plus 30-day and 7-day deadline alerts.

Built for graduate students, postdocs, research labs, university research offices, grant writers, nonprofits and small businesses who need to find federal funding before the deadline, not after.

• Grants.gov: every federal agency's posted and forecasted opportunities (NSF, NIH, DOE, NASA, USDA, NEH, ED, DOD and more), with award floor and ceiling, total funding, expected awards, eligibility, cost-sharing and synopsis.
• NSF Award Search: recent NSF awards with institution, state, principal investigator, program and amount, so you can see who's getting funded in your field.
• NIH RePORTER: recent NIH (and VA/AHRQ/CDC) awards with institute, activity code, funding opportunity number, organization and amount, deduplicated by core project.

No login, no API key, no cookies and no proxies: only documented public APIs, called politely.

Ready-made examples (low spending caps)

• Graduate fellowships closing in the next 120 days
• NIH and HHS health research grants, plus recent NIH awards
• Machine learning and AI funding: open calls plus new NSF and NIH awards

Why this one

	Grant & Fellowship Radar	Typical single-source scraper
Sources	Grants.gov + NSF awards + NIH RePORTER in one schema	One source
Deadline windows	deadlineWithinDays, minDaysLeft, days-left and urgency fields	Raw dates only
Deadline alerts	Optional deadline-alert rows at 30/7 days (configurable)	None
Past winners	Optional: who already won each NIH opportunity, median award, top institutions	None
Incremental	Since-last-run: new + changed only; re-delivers when a deadline or status changes	Full dump each run
Relevance	Strict keyword match on title + synopsis + eligibility (Grants.gov's own search matches any word)	Raw keyword search
Dedupe	Merges keyword overlaps, cross-listed opportunities and NIH award years (latest per core project)	Duplicates

Input highlights

Field	What it does
keywords	Field or topic, e.g. graduate fellowship, neuroscience, climate adaptation. Each is searched separately and merged.
sources	grantsgov, nsf, nih
mode	all or sinceLastRun (for schedules)
deadlineWithinDays / minDaysLeft	Deadline window, e.g. 14 to 90 days out
agencies	Grants.gov codes: NSF, HHS-NIH11, DOE, NASA, USDA-NIFA, ED...
eligibilities	Individuals, public/private universities, nonprofits, small businesses, tribes, governments
fundingCategories, fundingInstruments, opportunityStatuses, postedWithinDays, minAwardUsd	Narrow opportunities
awardsLookbackDays, awardStates, nihInstitutes	Narrow NSF/NIH awards
deadlineAlertDays	Alert thresholds, default 30, 7
maxItems	Hard cap on rows and cost, split fairly across sources

Output

Each row has rowType (opportunity, award or deadline-alert), source, id, isNew, title, agency, url and the fields for its type:

Real row from a test run on 2026-11-01 (trimmed; past-winners add-on on):

{
  "rowType": "opportunity", "source": "grants.gov", "isNew": true,
  "opportunityNumber": "PAR-25-221",
  "title": "Population Approaches to Reducing Alcohol-related Cancer Risk (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)",
  "agency": "National Institutes of Health", "status": "posted",
  "postedDate": "2024-11-06", "closeDate": "2027-01-07",
  "daysUntilDeadline": 67, "deadlineUrgency": "due-within-90-days",
  "eligibility": ["Public and State controlled institutions of higher education", "Private institutions of higher education", "..."],
  "matchedKeywords": ["cancer"],
  "url": "https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357021",
  "pastWinners": { "fundedProjects": 3, "medianAwardUsd": 610625,
    "topOrganizations": [{ "name": "OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY", "projects": 1 }, { "name": "UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY", "projects": 1 }] }
}

Award rows add recipientOrg, recipientCity, recipientState, principalInvestigator, program, awardDate, startDate, endDate, awardAmountUsd and (NIH) coreProjectNumber, fundingOpportunityNumber. Values change over time; always confirm on the linked official page.

Pricing

Pay per event. You only pay for rows delivered, and add-ons are off by default.

Event	Price	When
Actor start	$0.00005	Each run
Result row	$0.002 ($2 per 1,000)	Each opportunity or award row. In since-last-run mode, items you already received aren't charged again unless they change.
Add-on: deadline alert	$0.005	Only with enableDeadlineAlerts, when an opportunity you already have crosses a 30/7-day threshold
Add-on: past winners	$0.003	Only with addPastWinners, and only on rows where past NIH winners were found

Set a maximum cost per run in Apify to cap spend. A weekly watchlist of about 50 new items costs about $0.10.

How the pricing compares

Store list prices for similar Actors, checked on 2026-11-01 (they may change, so check each listing):

Actor	Sources	List price per 1,000 rows
Grant & Fellowship Radar	Grants.gov + NSF + NIH, one schema	$2.00, add-ons optional
hridayrungta/grants-gov-scraper	Grants.gov	$1.50
pink_comic/nih-reporter-search	NIH RePORTER	$2.00
fortuitous_pirate/nih-nsf-funding-scraper	NIH + NSF awards	about $5.47
seibs.co/grant-funding-intel	Grants.gov + IRS 990-PF	$6.00 plus add-ons
solidcode/grants-gov-scraper	Grants.gov	$8.00
nexgendata/federal-grant-opportunities	Grants.gov	$30.00
nexgendata/us-grants-funding-tracker	SBIR, NIH and NSF awards	$50.00

What the extra $0.50 per 1,000 buys over the cheapest Grants.gov-only option: three official sources in one run and one schema, NSF and NIH award intelligence, strict keyword relevance (fewer off-topic rows to pay for), deduplication, deadline windows with days-left and urgency fields, and incremental runs, so on a schedule you pay only for new or changed items. That last one usually makes the total bill lower than re-downloading full lists. The add-ons are priced separately so you only pay for alerts or past-winner data if you use them.

Use cases

• Grad students and postdocs: fellowships, dissertation grants and training awards you're eligible for, sorted by deadline.
• Labs and PIs: open calls in your field plus who just won similar NSF/NIH awards.
• Research offices and grant writers: weekly funding digest for faculty by department keyword.
• Nonprofits and small businesses: Grants.gov opportunities filtered by eligibility and category, with deadline alerts.
• Funding intelligence: track new awards by state, institute or program.

Scheduling tips

Create a task per watchlist (own stateKey), set mode to sinceLastRun, schedule daily or weekly, and connect the dataset to email, Slack, Google Sheets or a webhook through Apify integrations.

Sources, attribution and responsible use

Data comes from Grants.gov (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services), the NSF Award Search API (U.S. National Science Foundation) and the NIH RePORTER API (U.S. National Institutes of Health). These are U.S. government works. This Actor is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Grants.gov, HHS, NSF, NIH or any agency. Requests use an identifying User-Agent, at most about one request per second per host, as NIH RePORTER asks. Principal investigator emails are not collected. Please use award data to research funding, not for unsolicited bulk outreach.

Disclaimer

• Data accuracy: results are copied from the agencies' public systems, which can be delayed, incomplete or changed after publication (NSF awards often appear weeks after the award date). Deadlines, amounts and eligibility can change, and amendments may not be reflected until the next run. Always confirm every detail in the official announcement before applying. Missing a result is possible; do not rely on this Actor as your only search.
• Not legal, financial, tax or grant-compliance advice. Eligibility labels are the agency's applicant types, not a determination that you qualify.
• Provided "as is" without warranty. You're responsible for how you use the data and for following each source's terms.

FAQ

Do I need a Grants.gov, NSF or NIH account or key? No. Does it include private foundations? Not yet; this Actor covers federal sources only. Are add-ons on by default? No. Deadline alerts and past winners are opt-in, and each is listed in the pricing table. Why are some deadlines empty? Forecasts and rolling programs often have none. Turn off includeNoDeadline to hide them.

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