US Grants.gov Award Funding Range Change Watch

Changes to award ceiling, floor, or total program funding on posted opportunities.

## Source
    Grants.gov public Search2 and FetchOpportunity APIs (public, logged-out)
    - https://api.grants.gov/v1/api/search2

• https://api.grants.gov/v1/api/fetchOpportunity

  Public, logged-out only — no API key, login, cookie or CAPTCHA.
  
    ## The eight delta types
    | value | fires when |
    |---|---|
    | `new-opportunity` | an opportunity appears in the watched set |
    | `forecast-to-posted` | status moves `forecasted` → `posted` |
    | `deadline-amendment` | the close date or synopsis response date moves |
    | `funding-range-change` | award ceiling, floor, estimated funding, number of awards or cost sharing changes |
    | `eligibility-change` | the set of eligible applicant types changes |
    | `opportunity-cancellation` | status moves into closed/archived/withdrawn, or the record is delisted |
    | `agency-program` | the agency, agency code or CFDA programme list changes |
    | `opportunity-document-change` | the attached document set changes |
  
    Leave `delta_types` empty for all eight. Every emitted delta carries `delta_kinds`
    naming which ones it satisfied.
  
    The last three need a per-opportunity detail read. Selecting any of them narrows
    the watched set to `max_detail_reads` opportunities, newest first, and uses a
    separate baseline — so a list-mode baseline is never diffed against a detail-mode
    read.
  
    ## Pricing
    | Event | Price (FREE tier) |
    |---|---|
    | Actor start (`apify-actor-start`) | $0.02 one-time |
    | Source check (`source-check`) | $0.10 |
  

| Per delta (grant-opportunity-delta) | $0.50 |

`source-check` ladder, GOLD-floored: **$0.10 / $0.09 / $0.08 / $0.067**.
    Charged once per run after the source enumeration terminates — seed runs and
    genuine-zero runs included. It is **not** charged when the source refused the read.

    The per-delta value event (`grant-opportunity-delta`) is the **primary** event and is priced at **$0.50 per delta** at the FREE tier. Ladder, GOLD-floored: **$0.50 / $0.45 / $0.40 / $0.335** (FREE / BRONZE / SILVER / GOLD-PLATINUM-DIAMOND). `source-check` still charges; it is no longer the headline event. Billed deltas are capped at 500 per run and any overflow is reported as a withholding rather than charged.

    ## Snapshot mode is a PREVIEW
    `watch_mode: false` returns at most **25 records**, hard-capped in code, labeled
    `output_mode: "preview"`. This actor sells change detection, not bulk export.

    ## Watch semantics
    The first watch run stores a private baseline and emits **zero** deltas. Billed
    deltas are capped at 500 per run; the overflow is a named PARTIAL withholding,
    never billed, and re-detected next run. When a read is truncated, `REMOVED` is
    suppressed rather than reported as a cancellation.

    ## Terminal states
    `NORMAL` · `SUCCEEDED-0: GENUINE_EMPTY` · `SUCCEEDED-0` (no change) · `PARTIAL` · `BLOCKED`.
    A zero with no evidence FAILS loud rather than exiting 0 quietly.

You name what this Actor watches

This Actor reads fields that only exist on the per-opportunity detail record, so it must issue one request per opportunity. It will not do that across the whole live set — instead it watches exactly what you name:

• opportunity_numbers — e.g. PAR-25-221. One bounded lookup each, exact-number match.
• agency_codes — e.g. DOI-NPS. Every live opportunity for that agency.

At least one is required. A run with neither fails immediately and says why, rather than quietly watching an arbitrary slice of the corpus and looking healthy.

Both bounds were proven to actually filter, control-vs-test on 2026-07-27 — oppNum takes 1,224 live opportunities to 1, agencies=DOI-NPS takes it to 16. A named opportunity that resolves to nothing is reported as NOT FOUND, never dropped in silence.

Why this matters for what you pay. Pool-wide, this field family changes on the order of a dozen times a year across all 1,224 live opportunities. Watching 40 opportunities you actually care about turns that into a signal; watching 150 arbitrary ones turns it into nothing.

One delta type per Actor

This Actor watches funding-range-change and nothing else. The other delta types in this family are separate Actors, each with its own price and its own baseline — so you pay for the feed you want and no other.

Run it WEEKLY, not daily

Schedule this Actor once a week. That is a recommendation about your bill, not about coverage — a weekly run reads the same opportunities and misses nothing.

This is a bounded, low-frequency feed by construction. Measured on 2026-07-27 across 200 of the 1,234 live posted opportunities, through this Actor's own classifier: 3.00 of this Actor's events per 100 watched opportunities per year. At the maximum bound this Actor accepts — 300 opportunities — that is about 9 deltas a year, or 0.17 a week.

A daily schedule pays seven source-check events a week to re-read a set that changes a few times a year: the check would be roughly 90% of your bill and buy no extra signal. On a weekly schedule the per-delta event carries about 42% of the bill and you see exactly the same changes. Override the cadence if you have a reason to.