Grants.gov Scraper – Federal & Nonprofit Grants Finder, Deadlines & Alerts

Find every open US federal grant that fits you, including nonprofit grants, with deadlines and award amounts, for $3 per 1,000 opportunities. This Actor searches the official Grants.gov API by keyword, agency, Assistance Listing (CFDA/ALN) and applicant eligibility, and returns one clean row per funding opportunity (NOFO): deadline, days left, award ceiling and floor, total program funding, eligible applicants, description, agency contact and a direct Grants.gov link.

• ✅ Official source: the public Grants.gov search and detail API, the same data shown on grants.gov
• ✅ Grant alerts built in: only grants posted in the last N days, or closing within N days
• ✅ Nonprofit, university and small-business filters with Grants.gov eligibility codes
• ✅ No API key, login, browser or proxy. Pay only per opportunity saved, and it stops at your Maximum cost per run

Try it now: the input is pre-filled with the keyword artificial intelligence (forecasted + posted grants, 20 results with full details). Click Start; the test run below finished in about 6 seconds.

Real run results (18 Oct 2026)

Pre-filled input: keyword artificial intelligence, statuses forecasted + posted, maxItems: 20 (run zwwmCmA4hpZ1WDPjZ, 6 seconds, 20 of 171 matching opportunities saved). 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 Research	DOD-AMC-ACCRI	forecasted	–	–	–
G27AS00079	Cooperative Agreement for Affiliated Partner with the Great…	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
26-512	Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery…	NSF	posted	2026-11-04	–	$100M
25-531	Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI)	NSF	posted	2027-01-20	$1.2M	$12M
26-507	National Science Foundation Fostering Interdisciplinary Net…	NSF	posted	2026-11-18	–	$8.5M

For nonprofits

Looking for nonprofit grants from the federal government? Grants.gov tags every opportunity with the applicant types that may apply. Add the eligibility code 12 (501(c)(3) nonprofits) and/or 13 (nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status) and the Actor returns only grants your organization is eligible for, with deadlines, award ceilings, total funding and the agency contact.

{
  "statuses": ["posted"],
  "eligibilities": ["12"],
  "sortBy": "closingSoon",
  "maxItems": 10
}

Real run of that input (19 Oct 2026, run 4X6qFu2dehS6mq1gz, about 6 seconds, 10 of 443 matching nonprofit-eligible opportunities saved). Five of the rows:

Number	Title	Agency	Deadline	Award ceiling	Total funding
USDA-APHIS-10031-PPQ-NCPN-2027	Plant Protection Act Section 7721 Fiscal Year 2027 Nationa…	USDA-APHIS	2026-10-19	$3.5M	$10M
HRSA-27-005	Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Service Area Competition (SAC)	HHS-HRSA	2026-10-19	$10.1M	$267.8M
RFA-CA-27-021	Sustained Support for Informatics Technologies for Cancer …	HHS-NIH11	2026-10-19	$600K	$1.8M
AC-08-20-2026	Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 AmeriCorps Seniors RSVP Competition	AC	2026-10-20	–	–
RFA-DK-27-120	Nutrition Obesity Research Centers (NORCs) (P30 Clinical T…	HHS-NIH11	2026-10-20	$750K	$3.6M

One full row from that run:

{
  "id": "363423",
  "number": "HRSA-27-005",
  "title": "Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Service Area Competition (SAC)",
  "agencyCode": "HHS-HRSA",
  "agency": "Health Resources and Services Administration",
  "status": "posted",
  "docType": "synopsis",
  "openDate": "2026-09-18",
  "closeDate": "2026-10-19",
  "daysUntilClose": 0,
  "cfdaList": [
    "93.224"
  ],
  "url": "https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/363423",
  "awardCeiling": 10116100,
  "awardFloor": 650000,
  "estimatedTotalFunding": 267773700,
  "expectedAwards": 63,
  "costSharing": false,
  "fundingInstruments": [
    "Grant"
  ],
  "categories": [
    "Health"
  ],
  "eligibleApplicants": [
    "City or township governments",
    "Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities",
    "Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)",
    "County governments",
    "Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education",
    "Special district governments",
    "Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)",
    "Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education",
    "State governments"
  ],
  "eligibilityNotes": "",
  "description": "The FY 2027 Health Center Program Service Area Competition (SAC) funding improves the health of medically underserved communities and populations by providing g…",
  "contactName": "Health Resources and Services Administration",
  "contactEmail": "bphcfunding@hrsa.gov",
  "contactPhone": "301-443-7432",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-09-18"
}

Add a keyword (e.g. youth, housing, arts) and postedWithinDays: 7 on a weekly schedule to get a nonprofit grant alert.

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.

Use cases

• Grant writers and consultants building weekly pipelines of new opportunities for clients
• Nonprofits, universities and research offices tracking funding in their field
• Startups and small businesses looking for SBIR/STTR and other federal funding
• Analysts and journalists studying federal funding trends
• AI agents and automations that need fresh, structured funding leads

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 (default 50)
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 used about $0.0003 of platform compute.

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