🏛️ SBIR Government Grants Scraper

🚀 Track federal innovation funding in seconds. Pull SBIR and STTR award records straight from sbir.gov with company, contact, agency, and contract metadata. No API key, no registration, no manual CSV wrangling.

The SBIR Government Grants Scraper turns the public Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer award archive into a clean, structured dataset. Each record carries the company, award title, agency, phase, program, dollar amount, award year, contract dates, agency tracking number, solicitation reference, topic code, principal investigator contact, company address, UEI, and demographic ownership flags. You feed in filters such as agency, phase, year, state, keywords, or company name, and get back a flat table of grants ready for spreadsheets, dashboards, or CRM enrichment.

The dataset draws on roughly 2.5 million historical awards from 11 federal agencies including the National Science Foundation, NASA, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, USDA, EPA, Department of Commerce, Department of Education, Department of Transportation, and Department of Homeland Security. Coverage runs from 1982 through the current year. Every run pulls live data so the records reflect what sbir.gov is publishing at that moment. This is the same archive that policy analysts, grant consultants, and innovation investors rely on for funded-company intelligence, with the manual lookup work removed.

👥 Target Audience	🎯 Primary Use Cases
🧠 Grant consultants and proposal writers	Benchmark award sizes by agency, topic, and phase
💼 Venture and angel investors	Surface technically validated startups before they fundraise
🏢 Business development and partnership teams	Build prospect lists of funded small businesses by region
📊 Policy analysts and economists	Measure innovation spend across agencies, states, and years
🎓 Academic and think-tank researchers	Source structured datasets for funding and innovation studies
📰 Journalists and civic transparency teams	Investigate federal funding patterns and recipient companies

📋 What the SBIR Government Grants Scraper does

• 🏛️ Agency-wide coverage. Pulls awards from NSF, NASA, DOD (Army, Navy, Air Force, DARPA, MDA, OSD), DOE, HHS, USDA, EPA, DOC, ED, DOT, DHS, and more in one consistent format.
• 💰 Funding detail per record. Captures dollar amount, award year, contract number, agency tracking number, solicitation reference, and topic code.
• 🏢 Company and contact fields. Extracts company name, UEI, address, city, state, ZIP, employee count, principal investigator name, phone, and email when published.
• 🧪 Filterable inputs. Lets you narrow by agency, phase (I, II, IIB), program (SBIR or STTR), year, state, keyword, company name, topic code, research institution, and business demographic.
• 📊 Flat, export-ready output. Returns one row per award with 28 typed fields, no nested structures to flatten downstream.
• 📅 1982 to 2025 coverage. Backfills historical research as far as the source archive runs.

Each record is a complete federal grant entry: company identification, award title and abstract, agency context, phase and program classification, full funding amount, contract and solicitation references, principal investigator contact details, company address and headcount, UEI registration, and ownership demographic flags (HUBZone, socially and economically disadvantaged, woman-owned). Together those fields cover the descriptive surface most grant intelligence workflows ever need.

💡 Why it matters: the public SBIR archive is searchable one filter at a time and not built for bulk export. This Actor turns hours of click-through research into a single run that returns a typed dataset ready for analysis.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: abstract, address1, address2, agency, agencyTrackingNumber, awardAmount, awardTitle, awardYear, branch, city, company, companyWebsite, contactEmail, contactName, contactPhone, contactTitle, contract, contractEndDate, duns, hubzoneOwned, numberEmployees, phase, piEmail, piName, piPhone, piTitle, program, proposalAwardDate, results, riName, riPocName, riPocPhone, scrapedAt, sociallyEconomicallyDisadvantaged, solicitationNumber, solicitationYear, state, topicCode, uei, url, womanOwned. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free Apify account with $5 credit. Takes about 2 minutes.
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Search for "SBIR Government Grants Scraper" on the Apify Store and open the page.
3. 🎯 Set input. Choose your filters (agency, phase, year, state, keyword) in the input form, or paste a JSON payload, then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor stream awards into the dataset.
5. 📥 Download. Open the Dataset tab and export as CSV, Excel, JSON, JSONL, HTML, RSS, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from sign-up to a downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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❌ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by sbir.gov, the Small Business Administration, or any federal agency. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

🆘 Need Help?

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