Canada Business Funding Finder

A curated list of Canadian small-business funding programs (grants, loans, rebates, tax credits and support), covering federal, Atlantic Canada and Nova Scotia programs plus youth and side-hustle-friendly options. The data is bundled with the Actor and nothing is scraped at run time.

What's in it (data version 0.1, 2026-10-19)

• 35 programs included: 12 national, 7 Atlantic Canada, 16 Nova Scotia (45 unique programs in total, 10 held back below).
• Checked against the official page: 25 verified, 5 partial, 5 unverified. Unverified records have not been re-checked by us; most come from the Business Benefits Finder dataset (July 2025 edition), but some (e.g. the Women Entrepreneurship Loan Fund) come from earlier notes and have no source edition date.
• Amounts: 10 have a published figure, 16 have a page that states no cap or no cash amount, and 9 have no amount found (maxAmountCad is null).
• Most records have no dated deadline. We never invent an amount or a date.
• 10 more programs are held back by default because their website terms are restrictive or not yet reviewed: NGen, Scale AI, Futurpreneur (4), Ulnooweg, Volta, BDC and Canada Media Fund. Set includeTermsPendingSources: true to include them.

By default the Actor hides unverified records (minVerificationLevel: "partial"), so an empty input returns 30 programs (35 with minVerificationLevel: "unverified").

Example inputs

{}

Returns the verified and partial programs, up to 50.

{"provinces": ["NS"], "types": ["grant"], "amountStatus": ["published"]}

Returns grants available in Nova Scotia that have a published amount.

{"ageMin": 18, "ageMax": 29, "query": "youth", "minVerificationLevel": "unverified"}

Returns youth programs, including unverified records (which are not charged).

{"deadlineFrom": "2026-11-01", "deadlineTo": "2027-03-31", "includeUndatedDeadlines": true}

Input

Field	Default	Meaning
provinces	all	2-letter codes. National programs always match; Atlantic programs match NS/NB/PE/NL; Nova Scotia programs match NS
packages	all	federal, atlantic-ns, young-founder
types, sectors, intakeStatus	all	e.g. grant, ai, ongoing
minVerificationLevel	partial	unverified / partial / verified
amountStatus	all	published, no_published_cap, not_found
ageMin, ageMax	none	Drops programs whose stated age range doesn't overlap. Programs with no stated range stay
deadlineFrom, deadlineTo	none	YYYY-MM-DD. Keeps only programs with a dated deadline in range, unless includeUndatedDeadlines is set
query	""	Every word must appear in name, agency, summary, tip or sectors
maxItems	50	Hard cap 50,000
fetchAll	false	Opt-in: everything that matches, up to the cap
includeTermsPendingSources	false	See above

Output (one item per program)

id, name, agency, jurisdiction, type, maxAmountCad, amountStatus, matchingRequired, matchingRatio, eligibilitySummary, soleProprietorOk, partTimeOk, ageLimit, ageMin, ageMax, sectors, intakeStatus, nextDeadline, nextDeadlineDate, applicationDifficulty, officialUrl, verificationLevel, last_verified, source_edition_date, daysSinceVerified, verificationNote, fitTip, packages, licence, licenceUrl, attribution, disclaimer, charged

• last_verified is the date we loaded the official page. It is null if we never checked it.
• verificationNote explains what was not confirmed for partial and unverified records (null when verified).
• source_edition_date is the Business Benefits Finder edition the record came from (2025-07-31). It is null otherwise.
• A null in soleProprietorOk or partTimeOk means the source doesn't say.
• A run summary (counts, attribution, disclaimer) is saved as META in the run's key-value store.

Attribution: only records taken from the federal Business Benefits Finder data carry the Open Government Licence – Canada credit. Every other record names its own source agency and official page, with the summary in our own words.

Price

$0.01 per verified or partial program returned. Unverified records are free. Example: the default input costs about $0.30. Pay-per-event pricing is live on Apify (event result, $0.01).

Sources and licence

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada). The candidate list comes from the Business Benefits Finder (ISED), open.canada.ca dataset 4e75337e-70d0-4ed7-92d1-3b85192ec6b1. Other records hold facts only (amounts, dates, criteria), restated in our own words. No text, logos or layout is copied from program pages. Program and agency names are used only to identify each program.

Disclaimer

Informational only, not financial or legal advice. This Actor is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by any government, agency or program. Programs change without notice, so confirm every field on officialUrl before applying.

Privacy

No personal information: no named contacts, emails or phone numbers.