# Grants.gov Federal Grant Opportunities Scraper (`kempt_horizon_yzk/grants-gov-opportunities`) Actor

Search US federal grant opportunities from the official Grants.gov API. Filter by keyword, agency, category, eligibility, ALN, posted and closing dates, award size. Returns award ceiling, eligibility, contacts, documents. Monitor mode returns only new grants. $0.004/grant.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/kempt_horizon_yzk/grants-gov-opportunities.md
- **Developed by:** [Kempt Horizon Data](https://apify.com/kempt_horizon_yzk) (community)
- **Categories:** AI, Lead generation, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

Pay per event

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Grants.gov Scraper: Federal Grant Opportunities API (No Key)

Get **US federal grant opportunities from Grants.gov** as clean JSON, CSV or Excel. Search by keyword, agency, funding category, eligible applicant type, Assistance Listing (ALN/CFDA) number, posted date, closing date and award size. Each grant includes the **award ceiling and floor, total program funding, eligibility, agency contact, and links to the official documents**. Turn on **monitor mode**, schedule it daily, and get only the grants that are new since your last run.

Data comes from the **official public Grants.gov API** (the same API that powers grants.gov search). No API key, no login, no scraping of protected pages.

### For AI agents (MCP / API) quick reference

- **Use when:** you need current or forecasted US federal grant / funding opportunities (NIH, NSF, DOE, USDA, EPA, HHS and every other agency), filtered by topic, agency, eligibility, ALN or dates.
- **Don't use for:** federal contracts and RFPs (use [SAM.gov Contract Opportunities Scraper](https://apify.com/kempt_horizon_yzk/samgov-opportunities)), state or foundation grants.
- **Minimal input:** `{"keywords": ["climate"], "maxItems": 20}`. All fields are optional.
- **Output:** one dataset item per grant: `opportunityId`, `opportunityNumber`, `title`, `agency`, `status`, `postedDate`, `closeDate`, `awardCeiling`, `awardFloor`, `estimatedTotalFunding`, `eligibleApplicants`, `fundingCategories`, `fundingInstruments`, `aln`, `description`, `agencyContact`, `documents`, `url`.
- **Price:** $0.001 per run + **$0.004 per detailed grant** ($0.002 without details). 20 grants cost about $0.08. Pay per event only, limited permissions, so agentic payments (x402, Skyfire, Apify AGI token) work.
- **MCP:** add `https://mcp.apify.com?tools=kempt_horizon_yzk/grants-gov-opportunities` to your MCP client.

### What can this Grants.gov scraper do?

- ✅ **Search all federal grants**: posted, forecasted, closed and archived opportunities
- ✅ **Filters**: keywords (any match), agency codes, funding categories, eligible applicant types, funding instruments, ALN/CFDA, posted in the last N days, closing within N days, minimum award ceiling
- ✅ **Full details**: synopsis text, award ceiling and floor, expected number of awards, cost sharing, eligibility notes, agency contact, ALN program titles, attachment and document links
- ✅ **Monitor mode**: remembers what it already returned and gives you only new grants, perfect for a daily email, Slack or Zapier alert
- ✅ **Pay only for results**: grants removed by your filters are never charged
- ✅ Retries with exponential backoff and polite concurrency

### Who uses it?

Grant writers and consultants, nonprofit development teams, university research offices, small businesses looking for SBIR/STTR and other funding, municipal and tribal governments, and newsletters that cover federal funding.

### How much does it cost?

| Event | Price |
|---|---|
| Actor start | $0.001 |
| Grant opportunity (search fields) | $0.002 |
| Detailed grant opportunity | **$0.004** |

A daily monitor that finds 15 new grants costs about $0.06 a day. 1,000 detailed grants cost $4. Set a **maximum cost per run** and the Actor stops cleanly when it gets there.

### How to use it

1. Click **Try for free**. The example input (keyword "climate", posted and forecasted, 20 results) returns results right away.
2. Change the keywords, add agencies or eligibility codes, or set "Closing within N days".
3. Click **Start** and download results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read them with the API.
4. For alerts, tick **Only new since last run**, give the monitor a name, and add a daily **Schedule**. Connect Slack, email, Zapier, Make or a webhook through Apify integrations.

### Input example

```json
{
  "keywords": ["artificial intelligence", "machine learning"],
  "opportunityStatuses": ["posted", "forecasted"],
  "agencies": ["NSF"],
  "eligibilities": ["06", "20"],
  "closingWithinDays": 60,
  "minAwardCeiling": 250000,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "stateKey": "nsf-ai-monitor"
}
```

Common eligibility codes: `00` State governments, `01` Counties, `02` Cities, `06` Public higher education, `07` Tribal governments, `12` Nonprofits with 501(c)(3), `20` Private higher education, `22` For profit organizations, `23` Small businesses, `99` Unrestricted.
Funding category codes: `AG` Agriculture, `ED` Education, `EN` Energy, `ENV` Environment, `HL` Health, `ST` Science and Technology, `CD` Community Development, `BC` Business and Commerce.

### Output example

```json
{
  "opportunityId": "364083",
  "opportunityNumber": "G27AS00073",
  "title": "Cooperative Agreement for Affiliated Partner with the Hawaiʻi-Pacific Islands Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU)",
  "agencyCode": "DOI-USGS1",
  "agency": "Geological Survey",
  "status": "posted",
  "docType": "synopsis",
  "postedDate": "2026-10-14",
  "closeDate": "2026-11-14",
  "alnNumbers": [
    "15.808"
  ],
  "url": "https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/364083",
  "category": "Discretionary",
  "description": "Invasive species are one of the greatest threats to biodiversity, biosecurity, ecosystem functioning, and human well-being in Hawaiʻi. Managers are increasingly...",
  "awardCeiling": 435000,
  "awardFloor": 1,
  "estimatedTotalFunding": 435000,
  "expectedNumberOfAwards": 1,
  "costSharing": false,
  "fundingInstruments": [
    "Cooperative Agreement"
  ],
  "fundingCategories": [
    "Science and Technology and other Research and Development"
  ],
  "eligibleApplicants": [
    "Others (see text field entitled \"Additional Information on Eligibility\" for clarification)"
  ],
  "lastUpdated": "2026-10-14",
  "agencyContact": {
    "name": "Geological Survey",
    "email": "grants-officer@agency.gov",
    "phone": "555-0100",
    "description": "Grants officer"
  },
  "moreInfoUrl": null,
  "aln": [
    {
      "number": "15.808",
      "title": "U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection"
    }
  ],
  "documents": [
    {
      "name": "Full Announcement.docx",
      "description": "Full Announcement.docx",
      "url": "https://apply07.grants.gov/grantsws/rest/opportunity/att/download/355268"
    }
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-14T23:31:47.767Z"
}
```

### FAQ

**Do I need a Grants.gov account or API key?** No. The Actor uses the public Grants.gov search and opportunity APIs, which need no key.

**How fresh is the data?** Live. Every run queries Grants.gov directly.

**Can I get forecasts before a grant opens?** Yes. Include the `forecasted` status.

**Is this legal?** Grants.gov data is public US government information published for reuse. Agency contacts are official work contacts.

**Related Actors:** [SAM.gov Contract Opportunities Scraper](https://apify.com/kempt_horizon_yzk/samgov-opportunities) for federal contracts and RFPs.

Built and maintained by **Kempt Horizon Data**. Found a bug or need a field? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab and we usually reply within a day.

# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Optional. Any keyword matches (OR). Phrases are quoted automatically. Empty = all grants.

## `opportunityStatuses` (type: `array`):

Which opportunity statuses to include.

## `agencies` (type: `array`):

Optional Grants.gov agency codes, e.g. HHS-NIH11, NSF, DOE, USDA, EPA, DOC-NOAA.

## `fundingCategories` (type: `array`):

Optional category codes: AG Agriculture, AR Arts, BC Business and Commerce, CD Community Development, ED Education, EN Energy, ENV Environment, HL Health, HU Humanities, ST Science and Technology, RD Regional Development, IS Income Security, T Transportation, O Other.

## `eligibilities` (type: `array`):

Optional: 00 State governments, 01 County, 02 City or township, 06 Public/state higher ed, 07 Tribal governments, 12 Nonprofits with 501(c)(3), 13 Nonprofits without 501(c)(3), 20 Private higher ed, 21 Individuals, 22 For-profit organizations, 23 Small businesses, 25 Others, 99 Unrestricted.

## `fundingInstruments` (type: `array`):

Optional: G Grant, CA Cooperative agreement, PC Procurement contract, O Other.

## `aln` (type: `string`):

Optional, e.g. 93.855.

## `postedLastDays` (type: `integer`):

Optional. Only opportunities posted within this many days.

## `closingWithinDays` (type: `integer`):

Optional. Only opportunities whose close date is between today and today + N days.

## `minAwardCeiling` (type: `integer`):

Optional. Needs details on. Skips grants with a smaller (or unknown) award ceiling; skipped grants are not charged.

## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Description, award ceiling/floor, total funding, eligibility, agency contact, ALN titles, documents. $0.004 per grant instead of $0.002.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum grant opportunities to save (and pay for).

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

Remembers grants already returned for the same filters (or the same monitor name) and returns only new ones. Schedule daily for alerts.

## `stateKey` (type: `string`):

Optional name for the monitor state, so several schedules can keep separate memories.

## `detailConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Parallel detail requests.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "climate"
  ],
  "opportunityStatuses": [
    "posted",
    "forecasted"
  ],
  "includeDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 20,
  "onlyNew": false,
  "detailConcurrency": 3
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `grants` (type: `string`):

No description

## `all` (type: `string`):

No description

## `summary` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "keywords": [
        "climate"
    ],
    "opportunityStatuses": [
        "posted",
        "forecasted"
    ],
    "maxItems": 20
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("kempt_horizon_yzk/grants-gov-opportunities").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "keywords": ["climate"],
    "opportunityStatuses": [
        "posted",
        "forecasted",
    ],
    "maxItems": 20,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("kempt_horizon_yzk/grants-gov-opportunities").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "keywords": [
    "climate"
  ],
  "opportunityStatuses": [
    "posted",
    "forecasted"
  ],
  "maxItems": 20
}' |
apify call kempt_horizon_yzk/grants-gov-opportunities --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,kempt_horizon_yzk/grants-gov-opportunities"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/pC8jmSNPyjI1Mlt8f/builds/SQqxvfGyTqWQU0hPT/openapi.json