🏛️ 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.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-22 · 📊 28 fields per record · 2.5M+ historical awards · 11 federal agencies · 1982-2025 coverage

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

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📋 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.

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🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon: a 3-minute walkthrough showing input setup, a live run, and what the dataset looks like in CSV, JSON, and Google Sheets.

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⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum grant records returned. Free plan caps at 10 for preview; paid plans go up to 1,000,000.
agency	enum	No	Federal agency filter. Options include NSF, NASA, DOD, ARMY, NAVY, USAF, DARPA, MDA, OSD, HHS, DOE, USDA, EPA, DOC, ED, DOT, DHS, DNDO, ARPA-H. Leave blank for all agencies.
phase	enum	No	Award phase: Phase I, Phase II, or Phase IIB.
program	enum	No	Program type: SBIR or STTR.
year	integer	No	Award year between 1982 and 2025.
state	string	No	Two-letter US state code such as CA, TX, or NY.
keywords	string	No	Free-text search across award titles and abstracts.
companyName	string	No	Partial-match filter on recipient company name.
topicCode	string	No	Solicitation topic code filter.
researchInstitution	string	No	Research institution filter for STTR collaboration analysis.
demographic	enum	No	Business demographic: HUBZone Owned, Socially and Economically Disadvantaged, or Woman Owned.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Proxy settings. Defaults to Apify Proxy for stability.
requestDelayMs	integer	No	Milliseconds between requests. Raise if you see rate limiting.

Example 1: pull the most recent NSF Phase I grants for analysis.

{
  "agency": "NSF",
  "phase": "Phase I",
  "year": 2024,
  "maxItems": 100
}

Example 2: scan all DOD STTR awards for woman-owned small businesses.

{
  "agency": "DOD",
  "program": "STTR",
  "demographic": "Woman Owned",
  "maxItems": 500
}

⚠️ Good to Know: the SBIR archive returns data through paginated CSV downloads. For large historical pulls (multiple agencies across many years) split the run by agency or year window to keep dataset sizes manageable and runs reproducible.

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📊 Output

Every run writes one row per grant award to the Apify dataset. Export as CSV, Excel, JSON, JSONL, HTML, RSS, or XML.

🧾 Schema

Field	Type	Example
🏢 company	string	MOLECULAR INTERFACES, LLC
🧾 awardTitle	string	SBIR Phase I: High Light-Throughput Electrodes for Top-Emitting OLED Displays
🏛️ agency	string	National Science Foundation
🧪 phase	string	Phase I
📘 program	string	SBIR
💰 awardAmount	integer	274953
📅 awardYear	integer	2024
📅 proposalAwardDate	string (ISO date)	2025-01-01
📅 contractEndDate	string (ISO date)	2025-12-31
📄 contract	string	2433105
🧷 agencyTrackingNumber	string	2433105
🔖 solicitationNumber	string	NSF 23-515
📆 solicitationYear	string	2024
🧭 topicCode	string	S
📝 abstract	string	Award description
🆔 uei	string	M1JQY56LJY57
🏘️ hubzoneOwned	boolean	false
🤝 sociallyEconomicallyDisadvantaged	boolean	false
👩 womanOwned	boolean	false
👥 numberEmployees	integer	2
🌐 companyWebsite	string	https://evolvegenomix.com
📍 address1	string	200 W MADISON ST STE 3300
🏙️ city	string	Chicago
🗺️ state	string	Illinois
📮 zip	string	60606-3607
👤 piName	string	Jacob Ciszek
📞 piPhone	string	7735083107
📧 piEmail	string	jciszek@luc.edu
🕒 scrapedAt	string (ISO datetime)	2026-05-22T21:48:37.467Z

📦 Sample records

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🎯	Built for SBIR/STTR. Scoped to the federal grants archive so you skip the parser engineering entirely.
🔖	Typed, flat output. 28 fields ready for spreadsheets, BI tools, or CRM enrichment with zero post-processing.
⚡	Fast pulls. API-first path returns 100 records in well under 30 seconds.
🔁	Always fresh. Every run hits the live archive, so the dataset reflects what sbir.gov is publishing right now.
🌐	No infra to manage. Apify Proxy, retries, scaling, and storage are handled for you.
🛡️	Handles dump and CSV paths. API endpoint primary, CSV download as fallback when the federal API rate-limits.
🚫	No code required. Configure in the UI, schedule via cron, or call from any language with the Apify SDK.

📊 Built for analysts and growth teams who need federal grant data on tap, not a one-off CSV export project.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ SBIR Government Grants Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	2.5M+ awards, 11 agencies, 1982-2025	Live per run	Agency, phase, program, year, state, keyword, company, topic, institution, demographic	⚡ 2 min
Build your own scraper	Engineering hours plus maintenance	Full once built	Whenever you patch it	Custom code	🐢 Days to weeks
Paid federal data APIs	$$$ monthly subscription	Vendor-defined	Live	Vendor-defined	⏳ Hours plus contract
Manual CSV downloads from federal portals	Free, time-expensive	Full but unstructured	Manual	None beyond UI filters	🕒 Hours per pull
Legacy academic dumps	Often free	Snapshot, stale	Periodic, may be years old	None	🕒 Variable

Pick this Actor when you want fresh, filterable, structured data without pipeline maintenance or a procurement cycle.

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🚀 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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💼 Business use cases

🧠 Grant Consultants and Proposal Writers Benchmark award sizes across agencies and topics Find funded peer companies for proposal positioning Track recurring solicitation numbers and topic codes Build evidence packs for client pitch decks	💼 Investors and Venture Analysts Surface SBIR/STTR-backed startups before priced rounds Filter by agency to focus on deep-tech, defense, or health Map portfolio overlap with federal innovation funding Generate weekly award digests as deal flow inputs
🏢 Business Development and Sales Build prospect lists of recently funded small businesses Segment leads by state, agency, or topic for outreach Enrich CRM with PI name, phone, email, and UEI Time outreach to award-cycle calendars	📊 Policy Analysts and Civic Researchers Measure innovation spend by agency, state, and year Track demographic ownership trends (HUBZone, woman-owned) Compare SBIR vs STTR program intensity over time Produce reports on regional federal R&D distribution

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

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🔌 Automating SBIR Government Grants Scraper

Run the Actor headless from any backend so grants flow into your stack without manual triggers.

• 🟢 Node.js: use the official Apify JavaScript SDK to start a run, await results, and stream the dataset.
• 🐍 Python: use the Apify Python SDK for scripts, notebooks, and scheduled jobs.
• 📚 REST and webhooks: every Actor is also a REST endpoint with webhook delivery on ACTOR.RUN.SUCCEEDED.

Schedules turn ad hoc pulls into a recurring intelligence feed. Configure the Apify scheduler to run hourly, daily, or weekly and have results pushed to webhooks, Slack, Google Drive, BigQuery, or any other destination wired in through Apify integrations.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

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🔌 Integrate with any app

SBIR Government Grants Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step grant intelligence workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps and CRMs
• Slack - Get new-award alerts in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe results into Snowflake, BigQuery, or Postgres
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh data into your product backend or alert your team in Slack the moment a new federal award lands.

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🆘 Need Help? Open our contact form for custom requests, integration help, or issue reports.

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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.