Grants.gov Scraper: Federal Grants, Forecasts & Deadlines

Open and forecasted US federal grant opportunities from Grants.gov: agency, deadlines, award ceiling and floor, total funding, eligibility and category. $1.00 per 1,000 opportunities.

This Grants.gov scraper turns the official Grants.gov search into a spreadsheet-ready feed. Search by keyword, filter by agency, applicant type (for example 501(c)(3) nonprofits or small businesses) and posting date, and export deadlines, award ceilings, total funding and eligibility notes to CSV, Excel or JSON. It needs no Grants.gov login or API key.

Grants.gov lists every US federal grant, cooperative agreement and funding opportunity, plus forecasts of upcoming ones. This Actor gives you a clean, filterable feed with the money details you need to qualify each one.

Quick start

1. Press Start. The form is already filled with this example input, so the first run returns real rows in under a minute:

{
  "keywords": [
    "artificial intelligence",
    "broadband"
  ],
  "maxResults": 30
}

2. Swap in your own values, or call the Actor through the Apify API, Make, Zapier, n8n or the Python/JS clients with the same JSON.
3. Download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel from the Output tab, or schedule the run to repeat.

Full guide: How to Find Federal Grants for Nonprofits on Grants.gov, Including Forecasts (Real Run: Youth Programs)

What the Grants.gov scraper does

The Actor reads the official Grants.gov public API (api.grants.gov), the same back end the Grants.gov website uses. It runs one search per keyword you give it, applies the filters you choose (status, agency, eligibility, funding category, funding instrument, assistance listing and posting date), and saves each opportunity as one row.

With Include funding details on (the default), it also fetches each opportunity's detail record, which adds the fields you actually qualify a grant on: the description, award ceiling and floor, estimated total funding, expected number of awards, cost-sharing flag, eligible applicant types and eligibility notes, funding categories and instruments, assistance listings, and for forecasts the estimated post, close and award dates and fiscal year. Every row links back to the opportunity page on Grants.gov.

• Open (posted) and forecasted opportunities, plus closed and archived ones if you ask for them.
• Money and eligibility details on every row, not just the title.
• Contact names, e-mails and phone numbers of grantor staff are never output, and free-text fields are scrubbed of contact details.

Who it is for

• Nonprofits that want a short, sorted list of federal opportunities they are actually eligible for, with deadlines, instead of a weekly trawl through search results.
• Grant writers and consultants who track opportunities for several clients and need the pipeline in a spreadsheet or CRM.
• Universities and research offices that follow NIH, NSF or CDC funding opportunity announcements by topic.
• Small businesses and for-profits looking for the minority of federal grants open to them (eligibility codes 22 and 23).
• Policy analysts and journalists who follow how much money agencies plan to put into a topic, using the forecasts.

Real example: youth grants open to 501(c)(3) nonprofits

Say you write grants for a youth-services nonprofit. You want every federal opportunity that mentions youth, that is either open now or forecast, and that lists 501(c)(3) nonprofits as eligible applicants. You want the money and deadline fields so you can decide quickly which ones are worth a proposal, and you cap the first run at 25 rows.

Step 1: Enter the input

Open the Grants.gov scraper in Apify Console, switch the input form to JSON and paste this. It is the exact input used for the run in this guide:

{
    "keywords": [
        "youth"
    ],
    "statuses": [
        "posted",
        "forecasted"
    ],
    "eligibilities": [
        "12"
    ],
    "includeDetails": true,
    "maxResults": 25
}

What each setting does:

• keywords: youth. One full-text search runs per keyword, so ["youth", "mentoring"] would run two searches and merge them without duplicates.
• statuses: posted (open for applications) and forecasted (announced as coming). This is also the default when you leave the field empty. Add closed or archived to research past opportunities.
• eligibilities: 12, the Grants.gov code for "Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS". Other useful codes: 13 nonprofits without 501(c)(3), 06 public and state universities, 20 private universities, 23 small businesses, 22 other for-profits, 07 tribal governments, 00 states, 01 counties, 02 cities, 05 school districts and 99 unrestricted. The input form shows them by name.
• includeDetails: true, so each row gets the award amounts, eligibility list, forecast dates and description. It costs one extra API call per row, but no extra charge.
• maxResults: 25, a safety cap on rows saved, and therefore on cost.

Fields this example does not use, all from the input form:

• agencies: Grants.gov agency codes such as HHS-NIH11, DOE, NSF or USDA-NIFA.
• fundingCategories: activity categories such as HL (health), ED (education), CD (community development) or ST (science, technology and R&D).
• fundingInstruments: G grant, CA cooperative agreement, PC procurement contract, O other.
• assistanceListings: CFDA / Assistance Listing numbers, for example 93.243 or 16.726.
• postedWithinDays: only opportunities posted in the last N days, up to 56 (Grants.gov's own date windows are 3, 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, 49 and 56 days, so the Actor uses the smallest window that covers your number).
• maxResultsPerSearch: a cap per keyword when you run several.

Step 2: Run it

Press Start. On 30 October 2026 this input finished with status SUCCEEDED in about 15 seconds and saved 25 rows. The run was charged 25 opportunity events plus one start event, so the bill was $0.0251 on the Free/Bronze tier. The run stopped as soon as it reached the 25-row cap.

Step 3: Read the output

The 9 opportunities that were open (posted) at the time of the run:

opportunityNumber	title	agencyCode	awardCeiling	estimatedTotalFunding	expectedAwards	closeDate
O-OJJDP-2026-172743	OJJDP FY 2026 Mentoring for Youth Impacted by Opioids and Other Substa	USDOJ-OJP-OJJDP	$2,000,000	$16,500,000	15	2026-11-16
O-OJJDP-2026-172748	OJJDP FY 2026 Opioid Affected Youth Initiative	USDOJ-OJP-OJJDP	$750,000	$8,920,000	12	2026-11-16
O-OJJDP-2026-172737	OJJDP FY 2026 Expanding Youth Access to Community-Based Treatment	USDOJ-OJP-OJJDP	$650,000	$4,000,000	6	2026-11-16
O-OJJDP-2026-172751	OJJDP FY 2026 Second Chance Act Youth Reentry Program	USDOJ-OJP-OJJDP	$750,000	$12,440,720	16	2026-11-02
HHS-2026-IHS-NIHOE-0001	National Indian Health Outreach and Education	HHS-IHS	$1,101,311	$1,101,311	1	2026-11-02
PAR-27-051	NIH Brain Development Cohorts (NBDC) and Population Assessment of Toba	HHS-NIH11	–	–	–	2029-04-17
P27AS00032	Exploring and Enhancing Outdoor and Heritage Tourism in the Chesapeake	DOI-NPS	$50,000	$1,000,000	26	2026-11-04
NHTSA-693JJ926R000024-FY26	Innovative Traffic Safety Enforcement (ITSE) Grant Program	DOT-NHTSA	$20,000,000	$20,000,000	10	2027-09-01
HHS-2026-ACF-ORR-ZU-0019	Home Study and Post-Release Services for Unaccompanied Alien Children​	HHS-ACF-ORR	$100,000,000	$555,000,000	20	2027-10-01

"–" means Grants.gov has no value for that field on this opportunity, which is common for NIH program announcements that fund many applications of varying size.

The first 10 of the 16 forecasted opportunities, with the dates the agency expects:

opportunityNumber	title	awardCeiling	estimatedPostDate	estimatedCloseDate	fiscalYear
HHS-2027-ACL-AOD-IL-0003	Centers for Independent Living Competition - Guam	$159,762	2027-05-01	2027-07-01	2027
HHS-2027-ACL-AOD-IM-0018	Centers for Independent Living	$250,927	2027-05-01	2027-07-01	2027
RFA-HD-28-006	Learning Disabilities Research Centers	–	2027-07-24	2027-10-01	2028
RFA-HD-28-002	Prevention and Treatment through a Comprehensive Care Continuum for HI	–	2027-07-24	2027-10-28	2028
RFA-OH-27-054	World Trade Center Youth Research Coordinating Center (U54)	$10,000,000	2026-11-24	2027-02-23	2027
HRSA-27-057	Family-to-Family Health Information Centers (F2F HIC)	$96,750	2026-10-20	2026-12-19	2027
HRSA-27-068	Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part D - Women, Infants, Children and Yout	$200,000	2026-12-04	2027-02-02	2027
CDC-RFA-CE-27-0058	Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program – NEW (Year 1)	$125,000	2027-01-26	2027-03-31	2027
CDC-RFA-CE22-22050601CONT27	Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program – Competing Continuation (	$125,000	2027-01-26	2027-03-31	2027
CDC-RFA-CE-27-0024	Comprehensive Suicide Prevention Program for States	$1,200,000	2027-02-16	2027-04-17	2027

One full row as JSON (long text shortened with …):

{
    "opportunityId": "364058",
    "opportunityNumber": "O-OJJDP-2026-172743",
    "title": "OJJDP FY 2026 Mentoring for Youth Impacted by Opioids and Other Substance Use",
    "agency": "Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention ",
    "agencyCode": "USDOJ-OJP-OJJDP",
    "status": "posted",
    "docType": "synopsis",
    "openDate": "2026-10-09",
    "closeDate": "2026-11-16",
    "assistanceListingNumbers": [
        "16.726"
    ],
    "topAgency": "Department of Justice",
    "category": "Discretionary",
    "description": "This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the OJJDP FY 2026 Mentoring for Youth Impacted by Opioids and Other Substance Use program. This opportunity supports the implementation and delivery of high-quality mentoring services for youth who are current…",
    "awardCeiling": 2000000,
    "awardFloor": null,
    "estimatedTotalFunding": 16500000,
    "expectedAwards": 15,
    "costSharing": false,
    "fundingInstruments": [
        "Grant"
    ],
    "fundingCategories": [
        "Law, Justice and Legal Services"
    ],
    "eligibleApplicants": [
        "Public and State controlled institutions of higher education",
        "Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education",
        "Others (see text field entitled \"Additional Information on Eligibility\" for clarification)",
        "City or township governments",
        "Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education",
        "Independent school districts",
        "County governments",
        "Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)",
        "State governments",
        "Private institutions of higher education"
    ],
    "eligibilityNotes": "Units of local government; National organizations; Organizations having statewide reach that provide mentoring services",
    "assistanceListings": [
        "16.726 – Juvenile Mentoring Program"
    ],
    "responseDateNote": null,
    "archiveDate": null,
    "estimatedPostDate": null,
    "estimatedCloseDate": null,
    "estimatedAwardDate": null,
    "fiscalYear": null,
    "additionalInfoUrl": "https://www.ojp.gov/funding/docs/ojjdp-2026-172743.pdf",
    "estimatedProjectStart": null,
    "lastUpdated": "2026-10-09",
    "url": "https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/364058"
}

What the 25 real opportunities show:

• Health and Human Services dominates youth funding. 19 of the 25 come from HHS (CDC, NIH, HRSA, ACL, IHS and the Office of Refugee Resettlement), 4 from the Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and one each from the Department of the Interior (National Park Service) and the Department of Transportation (NHTSA).
• Forecasts outnumber open calls. 16 of the 25 are forecasts. They are where the planning value is: CDC's Comprehensive Suicide Prevention Program for States, for example, is forecast with $117.5 million in total funding across 26 awards of $650,000 to $1.2 million, closing around 17 April 2027. A forecast gives you months to line up partners and data before the notice of funding opportunity is posted.
• Deadlines cluster. Four of the open OJJDP opportunities close on 16 November or 2 November 2026, less than three weeks after this run. The OJJDP Mentoring for Youth Impacted by Opioids program offers up to $2 million per award, $16.5 million in total and 15 awards.
• "Eligible" is broad. Asking for code 12 returns every opportunity that lists 501(c)(3) nonprofits among its eligible applicants. Most also list governments, universities and tribes (six of them list 15 applicant types), so read eligibilityNotes for the real restrictions. The Centers for Independent Living competition for Guam, for example, is open only to consumer-controlled, cross-disability nonprofit agencies.
• Some amounts are missing on purpose. Three rows (two NIH research center announcements and the NIH Brain Development Cohorts biospecimen access notice) have no award ceiling or total funding. Grants.gov leaves those fields empty when the agency does not publish them.
• Cost sharing is rare. Only the two Drug-Free Communities forecasts ($125,000 per award, 50 awards each) require cost sharing in this sample.

Posted, forecasted and the forecast dates

A posted opportunity (docType synopsis) is open: it has an openDate and a closeDate, and you can apply on Grants.gov. A forecasted opportunity (docType forecast) is the agency's announcement that it intends to post one. It has no closeDate yet; instead it carries estimatedPostDate, estimatedCloseDate, estimatedAwardDate, estimatedProjectStart and fiscalYear. These are estimates by the agency and they slip, so treat them as planning dates, not deadlines.

When a forecast turns into a posted opportunity, Grants.gov usually keeps the same opportunity number. If you save each run, you can match rows on opportunityNumber to see which forecasts have opened and whether the money changed.

awardCeiling and awardFloor are the maximum and minimum for a single award. estimatedTotalFunding is the total the agency expects to spend across all awards, and expectedAwards is how many it expects to make. Dividing the total by the number of awards is a quick way to estimate a typical award when only the ceiling is given.

Output fields

Each row in the dataset has these fields. The example column shows a value from the run above.

Field	What it means	Example from this run
opportunityId / opportunityNumber	Grants.gov internal ID and the agency's funding opportunity number.	364058 / O-OJJDP-2026-172743
title	Opportunity title (HTML entities decoded).	OJJDP FY 2026 Mentoring for Youth Impacted by Opioids and Other Substance Use
agency / agencyCode / topAgency	Posting agency, its Grants.gov code and the parent department.	Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention / USDOJ-OJP-OJJDP / Department of Justice
status / docType	posted, forecasted, closed or archived; synopsis or forecast.	posted / synopsis
openDate / closeDate / archiveDate	When it opened, the application deadline and when it will be archived.	2026-10-09 / 2026-11-16 / null
description	Synopsis or forecast text, up to 5,000 characters, contacts scrubbed.	This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the OJJDP FY 2026 Mentoring…
awardCeiling / awardFloor	Largest and smallest single award, in US dollars.	2000000 / null
estimatedTotalFunding / expectedAwards	Total program funding and number of awards expected.	16500000 / 15
costSharing	Whether the applicant must contribute matching funds.	false
category	Funding category as Grants.gov labels it, for example Discretionary or Mandatory.	Discretionary
fundingInstruments / fundingCategories	Grant, cooperative agreement and so on; activity categories.	["Grant"] / ["Law, Justice and Legal Services"]
eligibleApplicants / eligibilityNotes	Applicant types allowed and the agency's free-text eligibility notes (up to 1,500 characters).	10 types / Units of local government; National organizations; Organizat…
assistanceListingNumbers / assistanceListings	CFDA numbers, alone and with program titles.	["16.726"] / ["16.726 – Juvenile Mentoring Program"]
estimatedPostDate / estimatedCloseDate / estimatedAwardDate / estimatedProjectStart / fiscalYear	Forecast-only planning dates.	2027-05-01 / 2027-07-01 / 2027-09-01 / null / 2027 (Guam forecast)
responseDateNote	Agency note about the deadline, when given.	null
additionalInfoUrl	Link to the full notice or the agency's page.	https://www.ojp.gov/funding/docs/ojjdp-2026-172743.pdf
lastUpdated	When the opportunity was last changed on Grants.gov.	2026-10-09
url	The opportunity page on Grants.gov.	https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/364058
scrapedAt	When the row was read.	2026-10-30T23:21:56.333Z

With Include funding details off, the row keeps only the search fields (IDs, number, title, agency, status, dates and assistance listing numbers), which is enough for a quick count of what is out there.

Export federal grant opportunities to CSV, Excel or Google Sheets

Every run saves its rows to a dataset, and a dataset can be downloaded in any common format without code.

From Apify Console. Open the run, go to the Output tab and click Export. Pick CSV, Excel (XLSX), JSON, XML, HTML or RSS, and tick only the columns you want. Nested values such as lists and objects are flattened into columns like name/0 or object/field in CSV and Excel.

From a URL. The same export is a plain HTTPS link. Replace <DATASET_ID> with the dataset ID shown on the run's Storage tab:

# CSV with just the columns you need
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?format=csv&clean=1&fields=opportunityNumber,title,agencyCode,status,closeDate,estimatedCloseDate,awardCeiling,estimatedTotalFunding,expectedAwards,costSharing,url" -o youth-grants.csv

# Excel
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?format=xlsx&clean=1" -o youth-grants.xlsx

Into Google Sheets. Three options, from simplest to most automatic:

1. One-off: download the CSV and use File > Import > Upload in Google Sheets. Choose "Replace current sheet" to refresh an existing tab.
2. Automatic, no code: use Make, Zapier or n8n as described in the next section, ending in a Google Sheets "Add row" step.
3. Formula: =IMPORTDATA("https://api.apify.com/v2/actor-tasks/<USERNAME>~<TASK_NAME>/runs/last/dataset/items?status=SUCCEEDED&format=csv&token=<YOUR_TOKEN>") always pulls the latest successful run of a saved task. The token sits in the formula, so anyone who can open the sheet can see it. Only use this in a private sheet.

A tip for grant calendars: sort the sheet by closeDate, then by estimatedCloseDate, so open deadlines come first and forecasts follow in expected order.

Use it from Make, Zapier or n8n

All three automation tools have an official Apify app, so you can run this Actor and pass its rows on without writing code.

1. Trigger. Use a schedule in the automation tool, or Apify's "Watch Actor runs" / "Watch task runs" trigger if you already schedule the task in Apify.
2. Run. Add the Apify "Run Actor" (or "Run task") action, choose mrslm_data/grants-gov-opportunities and paste the JSON input from Step 1. Turn on "wait for finish" so the next step gets the data.
3. Get the rows. Add "Get dataset items" and map the run's default dataset ID from the previous step.
4. Send them on. Add a Google Sheets "Add row" step for a pipeline sheet, an Airtable or Notion record per opportunity, or a Slack or e-mail message that lists the new opportunities with their deadlines and links. A filter step on status = posted or on awardCeiling keeps only what you would apply for.

Each module only moves data; the Actor's pricing is the same as when you run it in Console.

Schedule a weekly grants digest

Agencies post new opportunities and forecasts on most working days. A weekly run with postedWithinDays set to 7 returns only what was posted that week, so each run is a short "new this week" list. Leave postedWithinDays at 0 for a full monthly refresh of everything open and forecast.

1. In the Actor's input form, set up the input from Step 1 and click Save as new task. Give it a clear name such as youth-grants-weekly.
2. Go to Schedules > Create new, set the cron expression to 0 7 * * 1 and pick your timezone, so it runs every Monday at 7 AM.
3. Add the task to the schedule and save. Each run gets its own fresh dataset.
4. Optional: on the task's Integrations tab, add a webhook, Slack or email notification for "Run succeeded", or connect Make, Zapier or n8n, so the new rows go where you need them.

To fetch the newest results without looking up a run ID, use the task's last-run link: https://api.apify.com/v2/actor-tasks/<USERNAME>~youth-grants-weekly/runs/last/dataset/items?status=SUCCEEDED&format=json.

Call it from the API (Python, JavaScript or curl)

Start the Actor from your own code with the official Apify clients. Put your API token (Console > Settings > API & Integrations) in an environment variable called APIFY_TOKEN rather than in the code.

Python (pip install "apify-client>=3"):

import os
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])
run_input = {
    "keywords": [
        "youth"
    ],
    "statuses": [
        "posted",
        "forecasted"
    ],
    "eligibilities": [
        "12"
    ],
    "includeDetails": true,
    "maxResults": 25
}

run = client.actor("mrslm_data/grants-gov-opportunities").call(run_input=run_input)

# apify-client 3.x returns a Run object, so use run.default_dataset_id
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item["closeDate"] or item["estimatedCloseDate"], item["title"], item["awardCeiling"])

In apify-client 3.x, call() returns a typed object. Older examples that use run["defaultDatasetId"] were written for 1.x and 2.x and fail in 3.x with TypeError: 'Run' object is not subscriptable.

JavaScript / Node.js (npm install apify-client):

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const input = {
    "keywords": [
        "youth"
    ],
    "statuses": [
        "posted",
        "forecasted"
    ],
    "eligibilities": [
        "12"
    ],
    "includeDetails": true,
    "maxResults": 25
};

const run = await client.actor('mrslm_data/grants-gov-opportunities').call(input);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items.length, items[0].title);

curl, one request that runs the Actor and returns the rows as CSV (it waits up to 5 minutes, so keep the input small):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/mrslm_data~grants-gov-opportunities/run-sync-get-dataset-items?format=csv" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"keywords": ["youth"], "statuses": ["posted", "forecasted"], "eligibilities": ["12"], "includeDetails": true, "maxResults": 25}' -o youth-grants.csv

Use it from AI agents and chat assistants (MCP)

Apify runs a hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, so assistants such as Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code or any other MCP client can call this Actor as a tool. Add this server URL to your MCP client and sign in with your Apify account (or send your API token as a Bearer header):

https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=mrslm_data/grants-gov-opportunities

The assistant then sees the Actor's input fields, can start a run with the input it builds from your request, and reads the dataset rows back. A prompt like this works well:

Find open and forecasted federal grants about youth mentoring that 501(c)(3) nonprofits can apply for, at most 25, and list them by deadline with the award ceiling and total funding.

Runs started through MCP are billed exactly like any other run, per row saved, so it is worth asking the assistant to set maxResults.

What it costs

The Actor uses pay-per-event pricing: you pay for each opportunity saved, and nothing for compute.

Price per event

Event (per 1,000)	Free / Bronze	Silver	Gold / Platinum / Diamond
Opportunity saved (opportunity)	$1.00	$0.90	$0.80
Actor start (once per run at the default memory, not per 1,000)	$0.00005	$0.00005	$0.00005

You are charged only for the events in this table: nothing for compute, and nothing for searches that return no rows beyond the start fee.

Scenario	Free / Bronze	Silver	Gold
The run in this guide (25 opportunities)	$0.0251	$0.0226	$0.0201
Weekly "new this week" digest, ~40 opportunities a week (4 runs a month)	$0.16	$0.14	$0.13
Monthly full refresh for 10 client keywords, ~1,000 opportunities	$1.00	$0.90	$0.80
One-off: every posted and forecasted opportunity, ~3,000 rows	$3.00	$2.70	$2.40

The monthly and one-off rows are estimates; the real counts depend on your keywords and filters. To cap spending, set Maximum cost per run in the run options (or maxTotalChargeUsd in the API). The Actor stops cleanly at the cap and you are never billed past it.

Tips

• Start broad, then filter in the sheet. Grants.gov keyword search is full-text, so youth also matches opportunities that mention youth only in passing. It is cheaper to pull 100 rows and filter on fundingCategories or agencyCode than to run many narrow searches.
• Use assistance listings for programs you already know. If you have won under CFDA 16.726 before, put it in assistanceListings to see every new notice under that program, whatever its title.
• Use eligibility codes as a first cut only. The list of eligible applicant types is wide on most opportunities. Always read eligibilityNotes and the full notice at additionalInfoUrl.
• Keep forecasts. They are the best early warning you get. Save runs and compare opportunityNumber to see when a forecast opens.
• Turn details off for counts. With includeDetails off a run is faster, and the row still has title, agency, status and dates.

Limits

• Each keyword search reads up to 5,000 results (50 pages of 100). For more, split the search by agency, category or status.
• postedWithinDays follows Grants.gov's fixed windows and goes back at most 56 days.
• Award amounts, eligibility and forecast dates are whatever the agency entered; some are empty, and forecast dates often move.
• The Actor reads Grants.gov only. It does not include state, foundation or corporate grants, and it does not include awards already made (for those, see the USAspending Actor below).
• It does not apply for anything or log in to Grants.gov workspaces.

FAQ

Is there an API for Grants.gov search? Grants.gov publishes a public search API, but you have to page through results and fetch each opportunity's detail record yourself. This Actor does both and returns one clean row per opportunity, so you can use it as a Grants.gov API alternative from Make, Zapier, n8n or your own code.

Is this the same data as Grants.gov? Yes. It comes from the official Grants.gov public API, and every row links to the opportunity page on grants.gov.

Does it include forecasts? Yes. Forecasted opportunities are included by default, with their estimated post, close and award dates and fiscal year.

Can I get only grants my organisation can apply for? Use eligibilities with your applicant type (for example 12 for 501(c)(3) nonprofits or 23 for small businesses). It keeps opportunities that list that type; check eligibilityNotes for extra conditions.

How do I get only new opportunities? Set postedWithinDays (for example 7) and schedule the task weekly.

Why is the award ceiling empty on some rows? The agency did not publish one. This is common for NIH program announcements that fund applications of many sizes.

Are contact details included? No. Grantor contact names, e-mails and phone numbers are never output, and free-text fields are scrubbed of contact details.

Can I see who won past grants? Not with this Actor: Grants.gov lists opportunities, not awards. Use the USAspending Federal Awards Scraper with the grants category for awards made.

Does it work with Make, Zapier or n8n? Yes. All three have an Apify app. Use "Run Actor" (or run a saved task), then "Get dataset items" to pass the rows on to Google Sheets, Airtable, a CRM or Slack.

Can AI agents use it? Yes, through Apify's MCP server at https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=mrslm_data/grants-gov-opportunities, as shown above.

Is it legal?

This Actor only reads official open-data APIs that the publisher offers to everyone without a login or key. It obeys robots.txt, stays under the published rate limits, and never tries to get past logins, paywalls, captchas or bot checks. Grantor contact names, e-mails and phone numbers are never output, and free-text fields are scrubbed of contact details. You are responsible for how you use the data: follow the source's licence and terms and the privacy and marketing laws that apply to you (GDPR, CAN-SPAM, PECR, etc.). This tool is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by the data publisher.