Grants.gov Federal Grant Opportunities Tracker (No API Key)

Find open and forecasted US federal grant opportunities (FOAs / NOFOs / RFAs) from the official, keyless Grants.gov APIs (Search2 + fetchOpportunity). No signup, no API key.

You get one clean, flattened row per opportunity — agency, dates, award ceiling/floor, CFDA numbers and titles, eligibility, contacts and a direct Grants.gov link — ready for a CRM, spreadsheet or alerting workflow.

Use cases

• Grant seekers & proposal shops: watch newly posted FOAs by keyword (e.g. cybersecurity, workforce, rural health) every day and route them to writers.
• Universities & research offices: track NIH / NSF / DOE / NEH postings with award ceilings and CFDA programs before the close date.
• Nonprofits & state/local governments: filter by eligibility and funding category to surface fits for your applicant type.
• Consultants & capture teams: monitor forecasted opportunities early, then pair winners later with spending data.
• Journalism & policy research: see what agencies are funding right now, with estimated totals and number of awards.

Pairs well with:

• USASpending Federal Awards Tracker — who actually got paid (past awards)
• SAM.gov Federal Contract Opportunities Tracker — contract bids (procurement), not grants

Input

• Keyword: full-text search, e.g. cybersecurity, artificial intelligence.
• Opportunity number: exact FOA / RFA id, e.g. RFA-LM-28-001.
• Statuses: posted (default), forecasted, closed, archived (joined with | for Search2).
• Agencies / funding instruments / eligibilities / funding categories: optional pass-through strings as Grants.gov Search2 expects them.
• Sort: open date, close date, opportunity number, or relevance.
• Max opportunities (1–1,000, default 50).
• Enrich details (default true): call fetchOpportunity per hit for ceiling/floor, eligibility, CFDA titles, contacts and description. When false, search-level fields only; detail fields are null.
• User-Agent contact.

Example input:

{
  "keyword": "cybersecurity",
  "oppStatuses": ["posted"],
  "sortBy": "openDate|desc",
  "maxResults": 25,
  "enrichDetails": true
}

Output (one item per opportunity)

Field	Description
opportunityId, opportunityNumber, title	Opportunity identity
agency, agencyCode	Funding agency
oppStatus, docType	posted / forecasted / closed / archived
openDate, closeDate, archiveDate	Key dates
awardCeiling, awardFloor, estimatedFunding, numberOfAwards, costSharing	Award economics (enriched)
cfdaNumbers, cfdaTitles	Assistance listing numbers and program titles
fundingInstruments, fundingCategories, applicantTypes	Joined labels (enriched)
eligibilitySummary, descriptionSnippet	Trimmed text (HTML stripped on description)
agencyContactName, agencyContactEmail, agencyContactPhone	Agency contacts (enriched)
fundingDescUrl, sourceUrl	Full FOA link (when provided) and Grants.gov detail page

Example (from a real run): RFA-LM-28-001 — NLM Institutional Grants for Research Training in Biomedical Informatics, Data Science, and AI, National Institutes of Health, award ceiling $775,000, estimated funding $17,100,000.

Compliance

• Uses only the official public Grants.gov APIs (POST https://api.grants.gov/v1/api/search2 and fetchOpportunity), with anonymous access, no login and no API key.
• Data is public US federal grant opportunity information published by Grants.gov.
• Requests are politely throttled to about 1 per second, back off on 429 and 5xx responses, and send a declared User-Agent.
• No anti-bot measures are bypassed and nothing is scraped from behind a login.

Pricing (pay per event)

Event	Price
apify-actor-start (synthetic)	default $0.00005
opportunity-result (one opportunity pushed)	$0.002 ($2 per 1,000 opportunities)

The code calls Actor.charge(event_name="opportunity-result") after each pushed opportunity and stops when your max charge is reached.

More from Intenal_Builds

• sec-form-d-funding-tracker — SEC Form D private-fund raises
• federal-contract-opportunities-tracker — SAM.gov contract bids
• usaspending-federal-awards-tracker — who got paid (awards)
• federal-lobbying-disclosure-tracker — LDA.gov lobbying filings

Local run

pip install -r requirements.txt
# put input in storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json
python -m src