California Grants Opportunities Monitor

Export official California Grants Portal opportunity rows from data.ca.gov into a structured, source-linked Apify dataset for grant discovery, procurement research, public-program monitoring, and internal opportunity triage.

Use this Actor to run repeatable searches against California public grant-opportunity data, save normalized rows, and monitor changes without manually checking the portal each time.

Unofficial / not affiliated: this Actor is not operated by, endorsed by, or affiliated with the California Grants Portal, data.ca.gov, the State of California, or any government agency.

Common use cases

Use case	Why it helps
Grant-opportunity monitoring	Run bounded searches for infrastructure, housing, climate, workforce, or other public opportunities.
Procurement / partnership research	Export source-linked rows before manual eligibility and application review.
Nonprofit / public-sector triage	Track relevant programs without manually refreshing the portal.
Internal alerts	Schedule focused runs for a search term, agency department, or status filter.
Market / policy research	Build repeatable datasets from public grant-opportunity records.

Example input

{
  "search": "infrastructure",
  "maxItems": 10,
  "includeRawSourceRow": false
}

Input fields

Field	Type	Default	Notes
search	string	infrastructure	Optional CKAN full-text query. Use targeted terms such as housing, climate, workforce, or infrastructure.
status	string	optional	Optional source status filter.
agencyDept	string	optional	Optional agency/department filter.
maxItems	integer	3	Maximum rows to return, capped at 100.
includeRawSourceRow	boolean	false	Include sanitized raw source-row fields for debugging. Privacy-sensitive configured fields remain omitted.

Output

The Actor writes one dataset item per California grant opportunity row. Depending on source availability, rows include:

• opportunity title/name and source identifiers
• agency/department and status fields
• deadline or date fields when present
• funding/category/program details when present
• source URL / data.ca.gov reference fields
• collection timestamp

Source

Official/source dataset: https://data.ca.gov/dataset/california-grants-portal-data

The source is California Grants Portal data exposed through data.ca.gov / CKAN. Records can change as agencies update opportunities, deadlines, eligibility, funding amounts, or contact details.

Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 California grant opportunity rows

This Actor uses Apify Pay per Event pricing with platform usage included. The row event is charged only for useful rows written to the default dataset.

Event	Price	Unit
Actor start (apify-actor-start)	$0.00005	Once when the run starts.
California Grant Opportunity Row (apify-default-dataset-item)	$0.001	Per California grant opportunity row.

A row is one California Grants Portal opportunity row. Apify plan discounts, user-configured max-charge limits, and any future Apify pricing UI changes may affect final charges.

Limitations and responsible use

• This Actor is unofficial and does not provide grant, legal, procurement, financial, compliance, eligibility, or application advice.
• Always verify grant opportunity status, deadlines, eligibility, application requirements, and funding details against the official California Grants Portal / data.ca.gov source before applying, advising clients, committing funds, or making public claims.
• Do not use the output for unsolicited outreach, harassment, unlawful activity, or automated adverse decisions.
• Public source records can be updated, corrected, removed, delayed, or incomplete.

Data handling

The Actor queries the public source dataset with your filters, keeps runs bounded with maxItems, and writes one source-linked row per dataset item. It does not use a browser, proxy, login, private API, external paid API, or LLM.

Related Actors in this portfolio

This Actor is part of the Property, infrastructure, and grants datasets group. These are narrow, source-specific Apify Actors intended for scheduled checks and repeatable dataset exports — not broad scraped-content feeds.

• Florida DEP Cleanup Sites Monitor — Official Florida DEP cleanup-site rows for property/environmental review.
• Census Building Permits Monitor — Official Census building-permit rows for construction and local-market monitoring.
• California Grants Opportunities Monitor — Official California Grants Portal opportunities for funding-discovery workflows.
• EPA WaterSense Labeled Products — Official EPA WaterSense labeled-product rows for product and procurement research.

Each listing includes its own source notes, limits, pricing, and responsible-use caveats. Use the official source links in each Actor when decisions require verification.