Grants.gov Federal Grants Scraper — Opportunities, Deadlines & Contacts

SEO title: Grants.gov Scraper | Federal Grant Opportunities, Deadlines, Awards & Contacts
SEO description: Extract open U.S. federal grants from Grants.gov via the official public API. Get agency, deadline, award ceiling/floor, CFDA, eligibility, and grantor email — no login, no API key.

Search and extract U.S. federal grant opportunities from the official Grants.gov public REST API (search2 + fetchOpportunity). No browser, no proxies, no API key, and no login.

Built for grant writers, nonprofit development teams, university sponsored-programs offices, consultants, journalists, and AI agents that need structured funding data on a schedule.

Why this Actor

• Official source — Uses Grants.gov’s documented public endpoints (no HTML scraping). Auth is not required for search or opportunity fetch (API guide).
• Buyer-ready fields — Titles, agencies, open/close dates, award floor/ceiling, funding instrument, eligibility, CFDA/ALN numbers, and grantor contact email/phone.
• Filterable — Keyword, status (posted/forecasted/closed/archived), agency codes, funding instruments.
• Cheap to run — Pure HTTP JSON; no residential proxies.
• Apify-native — Clean dataset rows, Store-ready input schema, PPE-friendly one-row-per-opportunity output.

What you get (sample fields)

Field	Description
opportunityNumber	Grants.gov opportunity number
title	Opportunity title
agency / agencyCode	Funding agency
status	posted, forecasted, closed, or archived
postedDate / closeDate	Open and close dates
awardCeiling / awardFloor	Award range when published
fundingInstruments	Grant, cooperative agreement, etc.
cfdaNumbers	CFDA / Assistance Listing numbers
applicantTypes	Who can apply
description	Plain-text synopsis
contactEmail / contactPhone	Grantor contact
detailUrl	Canonical Grants.gov detail page

How to use

1. Click Try for free / Start.
2. Keep the default keyword (artificial intelligence) or enter your own (e.g. broadband, workforce, climate resilience).
3. Optionally set agency codes (NSF|NIH), statuses, and maxResults.
4. Run. Export JSON/CSV/Excel or pull via Apify API / webhook / schedule.

Example input

{
  "keyword": "artificial intelligence",
  "statuses": ["posted"],
  "agencies": "NSF|NIH",
  "maxResults": 25,
  "includeDetails": true
}

Example output (truncated)

{
  "opportunityId": "320753",
  "opportunityNumber": "PD-19-127Y",
  "title": "Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence (SL)",
  "agency": "U.S. National Science Foundation",
  "agencyCode": "NSF",
  "status": "posted",
  "postedDate": "09/19/2019",
  "closeDate": "02/10/2027",
  "awardFloor": "550",
  "fundingInstruments": ["Grant"],
  "cfdaNumbers": ["47.075"],
  "contactEmail": "grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov",
  "detailUrl": "https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/320753",
  "source": "grants.gov"
}

Suggested pay-per-event pricing

Apify is moving Store monetization to pay-per-event (PPE). Recommended starting prices (adjust after real cost data):

Event	Suggested price	Notes
apify-actor-start	$0.0005	Small start fee
Result / dataset item (apify-default-dataset-item or custom grant-opportunity)	$0.003 – $0.006	Per enriched opportunity
FREE tier	Same or slightly higher	Avoid extreme FREE markups so testers can convert

Rule of thumb: at $0.004 / result and 50k paid results/month → ~$200 revenue → ~$160 after Apify’s 20% commission, minus tiny compute (HTTP-only). Grant consultants routinely pay far more for curated feeds — volume grows with SEO title/description and reliable defaults.

Reliability & limits

• Respect Grants.gov fair use; this Actor paces one detail request per hit.
• Award amounts are only present when the agency published them (none is normalized to null).
• Deep historical pulls should page with maxResults and status filters (closed / archived).
• Not affiliated with Grants.gov or any federal agency. Verify critical decisions against the official opportunity page.

Legal / ToS

Data comes from Grants.gov public APIs that explicitly allow unauthenticated search2 and fetchOpportunity access. You are responsible for how you use the data (compliance, redistributing content, contacting grantors, etc.).

Changelog

• 1.0.0 — Initial Store release: keyword/status/agency search, optional full synopsis enrichment, clean dataset schema.

Use cases

• Nonprofits & universities — weekly digests of open grants by keyword (education, climate, broadband) with contact emails for LOIs.
• Grant writers / consultants — export deadlines, CFDA/ALN, and award ceilings to CSV or Google Sheets for pipeline tracking.
• AI / research labs — monitor NSF/NIH/DOE opportunities mentioning ML, AI, or data infrastructure.
• Apify MCP / agents — agents can call this Actor to fetch structured grant rows (see output schema) without browser scraping.

Buyer task: nonprofit-open-education-grants in Apify Console. Examples: https://github.com/LMH-Solutions/apify-open-data-actors (examples/grants_to_csv.py)