US Federal Grants Aggregator (Grants.gov)

Search Grants.gov — the official U.S. federal grants portal — and get back clean, unified JSON: funding agency, opportunity status, open/close dates, CFDA program codes and a direct link. Filter by keyword, status and CFDA number.

No API key, no scraping. The Grants.gov Search2 API is official, public and keyless. This actor normalizes the response into one predictable, flat record per opportunity.

What you get — one record per opportunity

{
  "opportunityId": "279638",
  "opportunityNumber": "RDBCP-REAP-RES-EEI-2016",
  "title": "Renewable Energy Systems and Energy Efficiency Improvements Program",
  "agency": "Rural Business-Cooperative Service",
  "agencyCode": "USDA-RBCS",
  "status": "posted",
  "openDate": "10/13/2015",
  "closeDate": "",
  "cfdaList": ["10.868"],
  "grantUrl": "https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/279638",
  "source": "Grants.gov"
}

Input

Field	Type	Example	Meaning
keyword	string	"mental health"	Free-text search.
statuses	list	["posted"]	Status filter. Empty = posted (open).
cfda	string	"93.243"	Optional CFDA program number.
maxResults	int	50	Max opportunities (1–100).

Who this is for

• Grant writers & consultants tracking new funding by topic.
• Nonprofits & universities monitoring relevant programs.
• Researchers watching agency and CFDA activity.
• GovTech / funding-intelligence products needing clean data.

Pricing

Billed per returned opportunity (pay-per-event). Set your price in the Apify Console.

Legal

Uses only the official, public Grants.gov Search2 API. No login-gated data.

Developer notes

The fetch + normalize core is in src/grants_source.py with no Apify SDK dependency:

$python -m src.grants_source

Who uses this

• Grant writers & consultants — daily feed of newly posted opportunities in your keywords, straight to Sheets or email.
• University research offices — monitor federal funding in specific programs (CFDA) without portal logins.
• Nonprofits — never miss an open opportunity in your field.
• GovTech products — power a grants-discovery feature with clean JSON.

Pricing — pay only for what you get

This actor uses Apify's pay-per-event model: you pay $3 per 1,000 results (plus a negligible $0.00005 per start). No subscription, no minimum.

Concretely: a daily 50-opportunity sweep costs about $0.15/day — one found grant pays for decades of runs.

Tip: start with maxResults: 10 to see the data shape for ~$0.03, then scale up.

Quick start

1. Click Try for free (Apify gives new accounts free usage credit).
2. Adjust the input (defaults already work) and press Start.
3. When the run finishes, open the Dataset tab and export as JSON, CSV or Excel — or fetch it via the Apify API on a schedule.

Support

Found an issue or need an extra field / another data source? Open an issue on the actor's Issues tab — I actively maintain this actor and usually respond within a day.