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

Watch mode: save a grant query once and get only the newly awarded grants on every later run — $0.05 per check, and you pay for records only when there are new ones.

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.

📊 Sample Output

recipient_organization	program_agency	amount_usd	award_date	pi_key_personnel	source_link
WHITMAN-WALKER INSTITUTE, INC.	NIH Office of the Director	499000	2026-09-17T00:00:00	['Heather Julie Aaron']	https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11581448
WHITMAN-WALKER INSTITUTE, INC.	NIH Office of the Director	425054	2026-09-17T00:00:00	['Heather Julie Aaron']	https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11581447
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO	National Cancer Institute	331916	2026-09-11T00:00:00	['GREGORY AARONS', 'Echezona Edozie Ezeanolue']	https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11406224
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO	National Cancer Institute	458179	2026-09-17T00:00:00	['GREGORY AARONS', 'Echezona Edozie Ezeanolue']	https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11535273
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO	National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases	819998	2026-09-10T00:00:00	['Valerie Abadie']	https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11465673
H. LEE MOFFITT CANCER CTR & RES INST	National Cancer Institute	589581	2026-08-28T00:00:00	['Daniel Abate-Daga']	https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11319233

Real rows from run 4PrQETAclkxo9jkbf on build 0.0.52 (2026-09-25), unedited apart from masked emails/phones and shortened long text; fields the source does not publish are empty.

🧾 JSON sample record

One real record from run 4PrQETAclkxo9jkbf (emails/phones masked, long text shortened):

{
  "source": "NIH",
  "recipient_organization": "WHITMAN-WALKER INSTITUTE, INC.",
  "program_agency": "NIH Office of the Director",
  "award_title": "Developing a Community-Based Facility to Support Next Generation Biomedical HIV Research",
  "amount_usd": 499000,
  "phase_type": "3",
  "award_date": "2026-09-17T00:00:00",
  "state": "MD",
  "pi_key_personnel": [
    "Heather Julie Aaron"
  ],
  "fiscal_year": 2026,
  "source_link": "https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11581448",
  "_watch_id": "https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11581448"
}

💰 Pricing

Event	Price (USD)	When it is charged
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$5e-05	Charged when the Actor starts running. Number of events charged depends on Actor memory (one event per GB, minimum one event).
Grant award record (apify-default-dataset-item)	$0.05	Charged per federal grant/award record returned (NIH, NSF, SBIR) with funding agency, program, recipient organization, award title, amount,…
Add-on: Email verification (addon-email-verify)	$0.05	For each business contact email scraped, verify deliverability via SMTP and return validity score. Charge fires per email successfully veri…
Add-on: Social profile enrichment (addon-social-enrichment)	$0.05	For each business, attempt to find the matching LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Facebook and Instagram profiles. Charge fires per business with at lea…
Watch check (watch-check)	$0.05	Charged once per watch-mode run that completes a change check against the tracked award set. Fires whether or not new awards are found; new…

Pay-per-event: you pay only for what the run delivers. A run that delivers nothing bills no result events (only the actor-start event, when the actor defines one). Example: a run that delivers 100 results costs 100 × $0.05 = $5.00 plus the start fee.

🔗 Related Actors

More from the NexGenData US government, courts & regulators family:

• US Copyright Records Search — Registration Data API
• US Government Contracts — Open Data Procurement API
• US Government Records API — Official Source, No API Key
• US Legislation & Bill Tracker — Congress Data API

48 more in this family on the NexGenData Store page.

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.

Watch mode — get only what's new

Set watchMode: true to turn a one-off search into a saved monitor. Instead of returning every grant award that matches your grant query, a watch run returns only the grant awards that are new since your last run.

• First run seeds a baseline: it records what currently matches and returns 0 records — nothing to alert on yet.
• Every later run returns only the newly-appearing grant awards (each tagged change_type: "new_filing"), plus any whose status changed.
• Point a Schedule at it (daily/hourly) and you have a standing "New grant award match" feed.

What a watch run charges: one Watch check — a flat $0.05 per run, whether or not anything new is found. You are not charged the per-grant award price on a run that finds nothing. When new grant awards do appear, each is billed at the normal per-record rate on top of the $0.05 check.

Inputs

field	meaning
watchMode	true to enable watch mode (default false = a normal one-off search)
watchLabel	optional name; two watches with the same query but different labels keep separate memory

Worked example — watch NIH awards in oncology:

{
  "watchMode": true,
  "watchLabel": "NIH awards in oncology"
}

Run 1 returns 0 records and reports "baseline established: monitoring N grant award(s)". Schedule it daily; from run 2 on, you receive only the new grant awards — a $0.05 check on quiet days, $0.05 + records on the days something lands.