# Federal Grant Award Tracker — Who Just Got Funded (`m_ctim/federal-grant-award-tracker`) Actor

Track federal grants and cooperative agreements that have actually been awarded, not just opportunities to apply. Search by keyword, agency, recipient state, or minimum amount via official USAspending.gov data.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/m\_ctim/federal-grant-award-tracker.md
- **Developed by:** [Timothy Kelvin](https://apify.com/m_ctim) (community)
- **Categories:** Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

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

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Federal Grant Award Tracker — Who Just Got Funded

Track federal grants and cooperative agreements that have actually been
**awarded** — not open opportunities to apply for, actual money that
just went out the door. Search by keyword, agency, recipient state, or
minimum amount.

Built for grant-writing consultants doing competitive research,
journalists covering federal spending, nonprofits watching their
sector, and lobbying/advocacy teams tracking a policy area.

### Input

```json
{
  "keyword": "climate resilience",
  "agency": "",
  "recipientState": "",
  "minAwardAmount": 100000,
  "daysBack": 30,
  "maxResults": 25
}
```

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `keyword` | string (optional) | Free-text search across grant descriptions. |
| `agency` | string (optional) | Exact top-tier awarding agency name, e.g. `"Department of Health and Human Services"`. |
| `recipientState` | string (optional) | Two-letter US state code to limit to recipients located there. |
| `minAwardAmount` | number (optional) | Only return awards at or above this dollar amount. |
| `daysBack` | number | How many days back from today to search, by award start date. Default `30`, max `365`. |
| `maxResults` | number | Max awards to return, largest amount first. Default `25`, max `100`. |

### Output

One record per award:

```json
{
  "awardId": "ZZ31152926",
  "recipientName": "ARLINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY, THE",
  "awardAmount": 25000.0,
  "awardingAgency": "National Endowment for the Humanities",
  "awardingSubAgency": "National Endowment for the Humanities",
  "awardType": "PROJECT GRANT (B)",
  "description": "THE BATTLE OF MENOTOMY: INTERPRETING APRIL 19, 1775 FOR AMERICA'S 250TH ANNIVERSARY...",
  "startDate": "2026-08-01",
  "endDate": "2027-02-28",
  "usaspendingUrl": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_ZZ31152926_418"
}
```

A search with no matches returns no items but is still billed once for
the search.

### How it works

Direct calls to the official [USAspending.gov
API](https://api.usaspending.gov/docs/endpoints) — no proxy, no key, no
scraping. Covers block grants, formula grants, project grants, and
cooperative agreements (award type codes 02/03/04/05).

### Pricing note

Billed per **search**, not per award returned — one charge whether the
search returns 0 awards or 100.

### Related products

- [Grant Opportunity Tracker](https://github.com/timmKal01/grant-opportunity-tracker) — new open funding opportunities from Grants.gov, the "before" to this actor's "after"
- [Federal Contract Award Tracker](https://github.com/timmKal01/federal-contract-award-tracker) — the same USAspending.gov data for contracts instead of grants

# Actor input Schema

## `keyword` (type: `string`):

Free-text search across grant descriptions (e.g. "climate resilience", "opioid treatment", "broadband"). Leave blank to skip keyword filtering.

## `agency` (type: `string`):

Exact top-tier awarding agency name (e.g. "Department of Health and Human Services", "National Science Foundation"). Leave blank for all agencies.

## `recipientState` (type: `string`):

Two-letter US state code to limit to recipients located there (e.g. "CA"). Leave blank for all states.

## `minAwardAmount` (type: `integer`):

Only return awards at or above this dollar amount.

## `daysBack` (type: `integer`):

How many days back from today to search, by award start date.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of awards to return, largest award amount first.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "daysBack": 30,
  "maxResults": 25
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("m_ctim/federal-grant-award-tracker").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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("m_ctim/federal-grant-award-tracker").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 '{}' |
apify call m_ctim/federal-grant-award-tracker --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,m_ctim/federal-grant-award-tracker"
        }
    }
}

```

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/OuW70KSHdvg7B63zV/builds/V6LsliVghfDk28oj9/openapi.json