US Grant Awards Tracker — SBIR, NIH & NSF Funding API

Every US organization that just won non-dilutive government money, in one feed. This actor aggregates and normalizes new award records from three official federal sources — SBIR/STTR, NIH (RePORTER), and NSF — into a single, deduplicated, monitor-ready dataset. Per-source scrapers exist; the unified "who just got government money" feed is the product.

Non-dilutive funding is a hard buy/diligence signal: an SBIR Phase II or a multi-year NIH R01 means a company is real, technical, and just got runway without giving up equity. This tracker puts that signal on one shelf.

Who uses this

• Sales / BD teams — fresh, funded accounts to prospect the week they're announced.
• Grant consultants — track who's winning what, by agency and program.
• VCs & scouts — SBIR Phase II is a well-known diligence marker; NIH/NSF awards flag deep-tech traction pre-round.
• University tech-transfer — monitor peer institutions and PI activity.

What you get — one normalized record per award

Field	Example
source	NSF
recipient_organization	BIOSTOREX LLC
program_agency	NSF — STTR Phase I
award_title	STTR Phase I: Novel Enzymatic DNA-Synthesis Technology for Scalable and Sustainable Data Storage
amount_usd	303998
phase_type	STTR Phase I
award_date	2025-06-15
state	CA
pi_key_personnel	["Jane Doe"]
source_link	https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=...

Fields are identical across all three sources, so you can sort, filter and merge SBIR, NIH and NSF awards in one pass. (NSF's own feed also surfaces its SBIR/STTR small-business awards, so the non-dilutive small-business signal flows even when SBIR.gov's standalone API is throttled.)

Pricing

Pay-per-event: $0.05 per grant award record — about $1 ≈ 20 award records. You pay only for records returned. A run that matches nothing (tight filters, or a source temporarily rate-limited) costs effectively nothing.

Inputs

• sources — any of sbir, nih, nsf (default: all three)
• daysBack / dateFrom / dateTo — award-date window
• minAmount — floor on award size (USD)
• state — 2-letter recipient state
• keyword — match award title / research terms
• agency — SBIR agency filter (DOD, HHS, NASA, DOE, NSF)
• maxPerSource — cap per source

Two ready-to-run examples

1. This month's big awards nationwide

{ "sources": ["sbir", "nih", "nsf"], "daysBack": 30, "minAmount": 250000 }

2. California AI/diagnostics awards

{ "sources": ["nih", "nsf"], "daysBack": 60, "state": "CA", "keyword": "AI" }

Use with AI agents

The unified schema is agent-friendly. Point an LLM agent at the dataset and ask:

• "List NSF STTR Phase I winners in the last 30 days over $200k, with recipient and PI."
• "Which NIH-funded orgs in MA just got their first award? Draft a one-line outreach note for each."
• "Cluster this week's awards by agency and flag any recipient that also appears in my CRM."

Callable over the Apify API/MCP, so it drops into agent tool-chains directly.

Part of the NexGenData funding-intelligence cluster — three money-in signals, one shelf

• Startup Funding Tracker — equity rounds (SEC Form D, TechCrunch, YC).
• SEC New VC Fund Tracker — new venture fund formations (Form D pooled-investment filings).
• US Grant Awards Tracker (this actor) — non-dilutive government money (SBIR/STTR, NIH, NSF).

Chasing government money specifically? Pair with Government Contracts Search and Federal Contract Spending to see grants and contracts for the same organization.

Honest limits

• Publication lag. Agencies post awards on their own timelines; a grant awarded today may appear in the API days to weeks later. This tracks published awards, not real-time decisions.
• Fiscal-year quirks. NIH and NSF operate on the federal fiscal year (Oct–Sep); date filters use published notice/award dates, which can straddle fiscal years.
• SBIR.gov API availability. SBIR.gov's public API is periodically rate-limited or offline; when it is, this actor logs a skip and continues on NIH + NSF (and NSF still carries its own SBIR/STTR awards) rather than failing the run.
• Amounts. amount_usd reflects each source's reported obligated/award amount; multi-year or supplemental awards may report a single obligation, not lifetime total.

No login, no API key, no proxy required — all three sources are free official government APIs.