Rural Health Grants & Funding Opportunities Scraper

Turn RuralHealthInfo.org (RHIhub), the leading hub for rural health funding, into clean, structured JSON. This Actor scrapes grant and funding opportunities with every field a grant researcher needs: sponsors, deadlines, award amounts, eligibility, geography, application process, and topics.

Built for nonprofits, grant writers, consultants, researchers, and AI agents doing grant discovery, funding research, or grant matching pipelines.

What it does

• Enumerates the full funding catalog (about 1,200+ opportunities) via the site's sitemap, or filters by topic (cardiovascular disease, maternal health, diabetes, behavioral health, and dozens more).
• Visits each opportunity page and extracts the structured record.
• Parses award amounts and single unambiguous deadlines into machine friendly fields while always preserving the original raw text.
• Optionally skips federal programs so you get only private, foundation, and corporate funding.

Input

Field	Type	Description
topics	array	Optional RHIhub topic slugs (for example cardiovascular-disease, maternal-health-prenatal-care, access). Empty = full catalog.
maxItems	integer	Max opportunities to scrape. Default 50.
includeInactive	boolean	Include opportunities flagged inactive on topic listings. Default false.
skipFederal	boolean	Drop opportunities whose sponsor or CFDA number indicates a federal funder. Default false.

Output example

{
    "url": "https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/funding/5305",
    "id": "5305",
    "title": "Center for Indigenous Innovation and Health",
    "sponsors": ["Office of Minority Health"],
    "programUrl": "https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/...",
    "deadlineText": "Jul 13, 2026",
    "deadlineDate": "2026-07-13",
    "purpose": "This opportunity will support...",
    "eligibilityText": "Public or private nonprofit organizations...",
    "nonprofit501c3Mentioned": true,
    "geography": "Nationwide and U.S. territories",
    "amountText": "Award ceiling: $500,000 Award floor: $250,000",
    "awardMinUsd": 250000,
    "awardMaxUsd": 500000,
    "applicationProcess": "Links to the full announcement...",
    "topics": ["American Indian or Alaska Native", "Health workforce"],
    "cfda": "93.137",
    "likelyFederal": true,
    "inactiveOnListing": false,
    "contact": "Program staff contact...",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-07-02T18:00:00.000Z"
}

Use cases

• Grant discovery pipelines and grant matching tools for nonprofits
• Rural health, public health, and community health funding research
• Feeding an LLM or AI agent with current funding opportunities
• Tracking new opportunities by topic on a schedule

Honest limitations

• Fields are extracted exactly as published on RuralHealthInfo.org. When the source does not state an amount or deadline, the parsed fields are null and the raw text field tells you what the page actually says. Nothing is guessed or fabricated.
• deadlineDate is only filled when the deadline text contains exactly one unambiguous date. Multi stage deadlines (letter of intent plus application) stay in deadlineText.
• The inactive flag only exists on topic listing pages, so inactiveOnListing is null in sitemap mode.
• The scraper is polite by design (about 1.5 seconds per page), so a full catalog run takes roughly 35 to 45 minutes.

Fair use

This Actor reads publicly available pages allowed by the site's robots.txt, at a polite rate. Please respect RuralHealthInfo.org's terms and use the data responsibly.