Grants.gov Scraper – Federal Grants & Nonprofit Grants Finder

Search open US federal grant opportunities, including nonprofit grants, on the official Grants.gov API. Give it a keyword plus optional agency, Assistance Listing (CFDA/ALN), and applicant eligibility filters, and it returns one row per opportunity with the deadline, days left, award ceiling and floor, total program funding, eligible applicants, agency contact, and a direct Grants.gov link. No API key or login.

Price: $0.003 per grant opportunity saved ($3 per 1,000). There is no start fee. You are charged only for rows saved to the dataset.

Try a run for free: New Apify accounts can use the Free plan, which includes $5 of platform usage credit each month and does not require a credit card, so a small test run is covered. Unused credit does not roll over.

Try it now: the form is pre-filled with the keyword artificial intelligence, statuses forecasted + posted, and 20 results with full details. Click Start. The test run below finished in about 6 seconds.

Buyer use cases

1. Find open federal grants for a 501(c)(3) — set eligibilities to 12 (nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status, other than higher education). Add a keyword such as community health or workforce, and keep statuses as posted, to list opportunities the organization can apply for, with deadlines and award amounts. To focus on California-eligible or California-serving programs, combine the eligibility filter with a keyword such as California or the relevant agency.
2. Weekly deadline alerts for a university or research office — set closingWithinDays to 14 or 30, sortBy to closingSoon, and optionally an agency code such as NSF or HHS-NIH11.
3. New-grant monitoring — set postedWithinDays to 7 with a topic keyword (for example workforce or artificial intelligence) and schedule the Actor weekly to catch newly posted opportunities.

Real run results (11 Nov 2026)

Pre-filled input: keyword artificial intelligence, statuses forecasted + posted, maxItems: 20 (run DsETKllh5U8cyXC81, about 6 seconds, 20 of 165 matching opportunities saved, run at 10:03 AM PT). First 8 rows:

Number	Title	Agency	Status	Deadline	Award ceiling	Total funding
PD-19-127Y	Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence (SL)	NSF	posted	2027-02-10	—	—
W519TC-25-S-0001	Broad Agency Announcement for Fundamental AI Resear…	DOD-AMC-ACCRI	forecasted	—	—	—
G27AS00079	Cooperative Agreement for Affiliated Partner with t…	DOI-USGS1	posted	2026-11-14	$150K	$150K
PAS-TUNIS- APS FY2026	Annual Program Statement (APS) For Fiscal Year 2026	DOS-TUN	forecasted	—	$200K	—
26-504	Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)	NSF	posted	2027-09-28	—	$16.5M
25-531	Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (C…	NSF	posted	2027-01-20	$1.2M	$12M
26-507	National Science Foundation Fostering Interdiscipli…	NSF	posted	2026-11-18	—	$8.5M
26-512	Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific D…	NSF	posted	2027-11-03	—	$100M

For AI agents

This Actor is dedicated_crest/grants-gov-opportunity-finder. Call it through the Apify API, the official JavaScript or Python client, or Apify's MCP server. Send JSON input with:

• keyword (string): search phrase, for example "community health"
• statuses (array of strings): posted, forecasted, closed, and/or archived (default: forecasted + posted)
• eligibilities (array of strings): Grants.gov codes such as 12 (501(c)(3) nonprofits), 06 / 20 (universities), 23 (small businesses)
• agencies, cfda, closingWithinDays, postedWithinDays, sortBy, maxItems, includeDetails

Each output row is one funding opportunity. Stable fields include id, number, title, agencyCode, agency, status, openDate, closeDate, daysUntilClose, cfdaList, url, awardCeiling, awardFloor, estimatedTotalFunding, eligibleApplicants, description, contactName, contactEmail, and contactPhone.

What does Grants.gov Opportunity Finder do?

Grants.gov lists thousands of federal funding opportunities (NOFOs / funding announcements) from NSF, NIH, DOE, DOD, USDA, HUD, NASA, the Department of Education and dozens of other agencies. This Actor queries the public Grants.gov search API, optionally fetches the full detail record for each opportunity, and saves one tidy row per opportunity to an Apify dataset that you can download as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML, or send to Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, Make, n8n or your own API.

Features

• 🔎 Free-text keyword search (e.g. artificial intelligence, climate resilience, SBIR)
• 🏛️ Filter by agency codes (e.g. NSF, HHS-NIH11, DOE)
• 🔢 Filter by Assistance Listing / CFDA number (e.g. 47.075)
• ✅ Filter by applicant eligibility codes (nonprofits, universities, small businesses, …)
• 📅 Filter by status: forecasted, posted, closed, archived
• ⏰ "Closing within N days" filter — ideal for scheduled weekly deadline alerts
• 🆕 "Posted within last N days" filter — only newly posted grants, perfect for a weekly "new grants" alert
• ↕️ Sort by relevance, newest posted first, or soonest deadline first
• 💰 Full details: award ceiling and floor, estimated total funding, expected number of awards, cost sharing, funding instruments, categories, eligible applicants, description and agency contact
• 🔗 Direct link to every opportunity on Grants.gov

How to use it

1. Click Try for free / Start.
2. Enter a keyword and (optionally) agencies, CFDA, eligibility codes, statuses and a deadline window.
3. Set Max results.
4. Run it and download the results, or schedule it (e.g. every Monday) and connect an integration to get new opportunities delivered automatically.

Input example

{
  "keyword": "artificial intelligence",
  "statuses": ["forecasted", "posted"],
  "agencies": ["NSF"],
  "closingWithinDays": 60,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "includeDetails": true
}

Field	Description
keyword	Free-text search
statuses	forecasted, posted, closed, archived (default: forecasted + posted)
agencies	Grants.gov agency codes, e.g. NSF, HHS-NIH11, DOE
cfda	Assistance Listing number, e.g. 47.075
eligibilities	Grants.gov eligibility codes, e.g. 12 (501(c)(3) nonprofits), 20 (private universities), 23 (small businesses), 25 (others)
closingWithinDays	Only keep opportunities whose deadline is within N days
postedWithinDays	Only keep opportunities posted in the last N days (sorts newest first automatically)
sortBy	relevance (default), newest or closingSoon
maxItems	Maximum number of opportunities to return (pre-filled and default: 20)
includeDetails	Fetch award amounts, description, eligibility and contact (default true)

Output example

{
  "id": "320753",
  "number": "PD-19-127Y",
  "title": "Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence (SL)",
  "agencyCode": "NSF",
  "agency": "U.S. National Science Foundation",
  "status": "posted",
  "docType": "synopsis",
  "openDate": "2019-09-19",
  "closeDate": "2027-02-10",
  "daysUntilClose": 116,
  "cfdaList": [
    "47.075"
  ],
  "url": "https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/320753",
  "awardCeiling": null,
  "awardFloor": 550,
  "estimatedTotalFunding": null,
  "expectedAwards": null,
  "costSharing": false,
  "fundingInstruments": [
    "Grant"
  ],
  "categories": [
    "Science and Technology and other Research and Development"
  ],
  "eligibleApplicants": [
    "Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled \"Additional Information on Eligibility\""
  ],
  "eligibilityNotes": "",
  "description": "Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence (SL) supports potentially transformative research that develops basic theoretical insights and fundamental knowle…",
  "contactName": "U.S. National Science Foundation",
  "contactEmail": "grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov",
  "contactPhone": "703-292-4203",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-10-15"
}

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.003 per grant opportunity returned ($3 per 1,000), full details included, no start fee. You only pay for opportunities saved to your dataset. Set a Maximum cost per run and the Actor stops cleanly when it's reached. The 20-result test run above (DsETKllh5U8cyXC81) used about $0.0003 of platform usage, which is covered by the Free plan's $5 monthly credit.

How that compares with other Grants.gov Actors on the Apify Store (free-tier list prices from the Store API, checked 18 Oct 2026; paid Apify plans may get lower tiered prices on some):

Actor	Price per 1,000 results	Start fee
This Actor	$3.00	none
Grants.gov Federal Grants Scraper (solidcode)	$9.60	$0.005
Grants.gov Opportunity Scraper (moving_beacon-owner1)	$9.99	$0.00005
Grants Gov Scraper (fortuitous_pirate)	$4.38	$0.001
Grants.gov Scraper API (pink_comic)	$2.00	$0.0001
Grants.gov Scraper, Award Ceiling & ALN Codes (hridayrungta)	$1.50	none

Some Actors are cheaper per row. This one adds the deadline and "posted within" alert filters, the full detail record (award ceiling/floor, total funding, eligibility, contact) on every row, and automatic retries that keep partial results if Grants.gov stops responding.

Tips

• Weekly new-grants alert: {"keyword": "youth mental health", "postedWithinDays": 7} on a Monday schedule, connected to Google Sheets, Slack or email.
• Deadline digest: {"closingWithinDays": 30, "sortBy": "closingSoon"} to see what's due soon.
• Nonprofit funding only: add "eligibilities": ["12"] (501(c)(3) nonprofits).
• Set includeDetails to false for a faster, lighter list (no award amounts/contacts).
• Combine with the Google Sheets or Slack integrations to share new opportunities with your team.

FAQ

Is this legal? Yes. It uses the official, public Grants.gov API. Contact details are those published by agencies on Grants.gov.

What if Grants.gov is down or slow? The Actor retries automatically with backoff for up to about 2 minutes. If Grants.gov still doesn't respond partway through a run, the Actor keeps every grant it already saved, finishes successfully and sets the status to "Partial results: Grants.gov stopped responding after N grants". You're only charged for the grants actually returned; just run it again later for the rest.

Is it affiliated with Grants.gov? No. This Actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Grants.gov or the US Government.

Found a bug or need a feature? Open an issue in the Actor's Issues tab — feedback is welcome.

How do I get a weekly email or Slack message with new grants? Create a schedule (e.g. every Monday) with postedWithinDays: 7 and add the Slack, email or Google Sheets integration to the schedule's task.

Which eligibility code is for nonprofits? 12 = 501(c)(3) nonprofits (other than higher education), 13 = nonprofits without 501(c)(3), 20 = private universities, 06 = public universities, 23 = small businesses, 25 = others. Leave it empty to get everything.

Does it include private foundation grants? No. Grants.gov lists federal opportunities only. For awards that were already made, see USAspending in Related tools below.

Can I use it from an AI agent or my own code? Yes. Call it through the Apify API, the JavaScript/Python clients or Apify's MCP server; output fields are stable.

Related tools

Other Actors by the same developer that work well with this one:

• USAspending Scraper: see who already won federal grants and contracts in your field (past awards, recipients, amounts)
• SEC EDGAR Scraper: private-company funding rounds from SEC Form D filings
• GDELT News Scraper: monitor news coverage of a program, agency or funding topic
• NPI Registry Scraper: US healthcare provider lists for health-related grant outreach

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