US Federal Grant Opportunities: Search and Weekly Alerts

Search the open US federal grant opportunities on Grants.gov by keyword, agency, eligibility type, funding category, ALN (CFDA) number, and posted or closing dates. Every row is one opportunity with its title, agency, number, ALN, award ceiling and floor, estimated total funding, close date, eligible applicants and a link. Switch on watch mode and a scheduled run returns only the opportunities that are new or changed since the last run, ready for a weekly grants digest.

The data comes from the documented Grants.gov Search API (search2 and fetchOpportunity), which Grants.gov publishes for public use without a login or key. It is US federal government information.

What you can do with it

• Weekly digest of new grants for a sector (BC business, HL health, ED education) sent to your clients or members.
• Find grants a small business or a 501(c)(3) nonprofit is eligible for (eligibilities 23 or 12).
• List everything closing in the next 30 days, soonest first.
• Track one agency (for example HHS, USDA, NSF) or one assistance listing (93.226).
• Feed a CRM, spreadsheet or AI agent with structured grant data instead of copying from the website.

Input example

{
  "keyword": "small business",
  "eligibilities": ["23"],
  "closingBefore": "2026-12-31",
  "sortBy": "closeDate|asc",
  "maxResults": 25
}

Weekly watch of health grants for nonprofits:

{
  "watchMode": true,
  "storeName": "health-nonprofit-grants",
  "fundingCategories": ["HL"],
  "eligibilities": ["12"],
  "maxResults": 200
}

An empty input runs a small example (5 open opportunities for "small business") so you can see the output.

Output example

{
  "mode": "search",
  "changeType": null,
  "opportunityId": "364178",
  "opportunityNumber": "G27AS00081",
  "title": "Cooperative Agreement for affiliated Partner with the Californian Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit",
  "agency": "Geological Survey",
  "topAgency": "Department of the Interior",
  "status": "posted",
  "alnNumbers": ["15.808"],
  "postedDate": "2026-10-30",
  "closeDate": "2026-11-30",
  "awardCeiling": 480000,
  "awardFloor": 1,
  "estimatedFunding": 480000,
  "numberOfAwards": 1,
  "costSharing": false,
  "eligibility": ["Others (see text field entitled \"Additional Information on Eligibility\" for clarification)"],
  "fundingInstruments": ["Cooperative Agreement"],
  "url": "https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/364178",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-02T00:00:00Z"
}

In watch mode changeType is new or changed; changed rows add changedFields and the previous values of title, status, close date, amounts and eligibility.

Filters

Field	Meaning
keyword	Search words, as in the Grants.gov search box
statuses	posted (open, the default), forecasted, closed, archived
agencies	Agency codes; a top code like HHS includes its sub-agencies
eligibilities	Applicant type codes, for example 23 small businesses, 12 501(c)(3) nonprofits, 00 state governments
fundingCategories	Category codes, for example BC, HL, ED, ENV, ST
fundingInstruments	G grant, CA cooperative agreement, PC procurement contract, O other
alnNumbers	Assistance Listing (CFDA) numbers
opportunityNumbers	Specific funding opportunity numbers
postedAfter, postedBefore, closingAfter, closingBefore	Dates as YYYY-MM-DD

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.003 per opportunity row returned. Notices (nothing matched, nothing new, errors) are free. You can set a maximum charge per run and the Actor stops at it.

Worked examples: the 5-row example costs $0.015. A weekly watch that finds 40 new or changed opportunities costs $0.12 per run, about $0.52 a month. Listing the 300 open health grants once costs $0.90.

Limits

• Award ceiling, floor and estimated funding come from the detail record. Forecasts and some notices leave them empty, and a value of 0 or 1 is what the agency typed, not an error.
• Closing-date filters leave out opportunities with no close date (forecasts, rolling deadlines).
• The Actor reads Grants.gov at a polite pace of about two requests a second, so 100 rows with details take about a minute.
• Watch mode keeps its last-seen state in a named key-value store on your account. Use one store name per watched search. If maxResults cuts a run short, the rows not delivered are reported next time.
• Only federal opportunities on Grants.gov are covered. State, local and private funders are not.

FAQ

Does it need an API key or login? No. It uses the public Grants.gov endpoints that need none.

Does it return contact names or emails? No. Agency contact names, phone numbers and personal email addresses are never output. A grantsOfficeEmail appears only when the agency lists an office or role mailbox such as grants@agency.gov; any address that looks like a named person (first.last@, free-mail) is dropped.

Is this official advice on eligibility? No. Always read the full notice of funding opportunity on Grants.gov before applying. The eligibility fields repeat what the agency published.

Responsible use

Public federal data republished as published, with a link to the source record. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by Grants.gov or any agency. You are responsible for how you use the data.

Removal requests

If an address or name in a row concerns you and you want it excluded, email datagleaner@gmail.com (Keencrest, the publisher; replies come from an AI agent, Crest, and the business is owner-operated) with the address and the opportunity number. We add it to the Actor's exclusion list (src/optout_dids.txt, loaded at the start of every run) within 30 days, answer you, and keep a dated record of the request and our answer. Corrections at the source go to the agency or Grants.gov.