Grants.gov Scraper & New Federal Grant Alerts

Search every US federal grant opportunity on Grants.gov and get clean rows with award ceiling, floor, deadline, eligibility and agency contact, plus new-grant alerts.

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What it does and who it is for

This Actor searches Grants.gov, the US government's central site for federal grant opportunities, and returns one flat record per opportunity: title, agency, status, posted and close dates, award ceiling and floor, estimated total funding, number of awards, eligible applicants, funding category, description and agency contact. It reads the official Grants.gov public API (the search call plus the per-opportunity detail call), with no API key, login or browser automation.

Filter by keyword, status (forecasted, posted, closed, archived), agency, funding category, eligible applicant type, funding instrument, Assistance Listing number, posted-within-N-days and a minimum award ceiling. Turn on Only new to get just the grants you have not seen before.

Use cases

• Grant writers and consultants: a daily feed of new funding notices for each client profile.
• Nonprofits, universities, cities and tribes: track opportunities you are eligible for using the applicant-type filter.
• Small businesses: follow small-business-eligible funding such as SBIR/STTR programs.
• GovTech and grant-management software: enrich your product with structured opportunity data.
• AI agents: call it through the Apify API or MCP server to answer "which open federal grants mention rural broadband?".

Why use this instead of the free official site or API

The underlying data is public and the official sources are free. What this Actor adds is convenience: one input, one flat table, and a memory of what you have already seen.

What you need	Official site / API	This Actor
Searching with several filters at once	Search page for people; the API search call returns summary hits only	Keyword, status, agency, category, eligibility, instrument, listing number, recency and minimum ceiling in one input
Award ceiling, floor, eligibility, contact	A second API call (or a page visit) per opportunity	Detail fields are merged into each row when Include details is on (the default)
Only grants you have not seen	You compare today's results to yesterday's yourself	Only new mode with a named alert remembers returned opportunities
Getting data into a sheet or CRM	Copy and paste, or write your own client	JSON, CSV or Excel download, API, webhooks and integrations

If you only need a single lookup now and then, the official site is fine. If you want the same data on a schedule, as flat rows you can feed to a spreadsheet, CRM or agent, this saves the glue work.

Data fields

Field	Type	What it contains
opportunityId	text	Grants.gov internal opportunity ID (used in the link).
opportunityNumber	text	The funding opportunity number assigned by the agency.
title	text	Opportunity title.
agencyCode	text	Short agency code (for example SBA).
agencyName	text	Agency name.
status	text	forecasted, posted, closed or archived.
docType	text	Document type on Grants.gov (for example synopsis or forecast).
postedDate	date	Date the opportunity was posted.
closeDate	date	Application deadline, when the agency set one.
assistanceListings	text	Assistance Listing (CFDA) number(s).
url	text	Link to the opportunity on Grants.gov.
parentAgency	text	Parent agency or department name.
category	text	Opportunity category (for example Discretionary).
fundingCategories	text	Funding category names, joined with semicolons.
fundingInstruments	text	Funding instrument types (grant, cooperative agreement and so on).
eligibleApplicants	text	Eligible applicant types, joined with semicolons.
eligibilityNotes	text	Additional eligibility text from the agency.
estimatedTotalFunding	integer	Estimated total program funding in USD, when published.
awardCeiling	integer	Largest single award in USD, when published.
awardFloor	integer	Smallest single award in USD, when published.
expectedNumberOfAwards	integer	Number of awards the agency expects to make.
costSharingRequired	boolean	Whether cost sharing or matching is required.
archiveDate	date	Date the opportunity is scheduled to be archived.
lastUpdatedDate	date	Date of the most recent update on Grants.gov.
description	text	Synopsis text of the opportunity.
contactName	text	Agency contact name.
contactEmail	text	Agency contact email as published on Grants.gov.
contactPhone	text	Agency contact phone as published.
additionalInfoUrl	text	Link to the agency's own page with more information, when given.
scrapedAt	datetime	When the Actor collected the record (UTC).

Fields a source does not publish are null.

"New since yesterday" alerts

Turn on Only new and the Actor remembers what it has already returned, so each scheduled run delivers only records you have not seen before.

1. Open the Actor in Apify Console and set the input, with Only new since last run switched on and a fixed alert name (stateKey). Example input:

{
  "keyword": "broadband",
  "statuses": ["posted", "forecasted"],
  "postedWithinDays": 30,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "maxResults": 200,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "stateKey": "broadband-grants"
}

2. Click Save as task, then open Schedules, create a schedule (for example the cron expression 0 7 * * * for every day at 7:00 in the time zone you pick) and add the task to it.
3. Under the task's Integrations, send the results to Slack, email, Google Sheets, a webhook or your own system.

A 30-day window with Only new is a good pattern: anything posted in the last 30 days that you have not received yet is returned exactly once.

The first run returns everything that matches your window (every matching opportunity posted in the last 30 days); later runs return only unseen records. Use a different alert name for each task so each keeps its own memory. A run with nothing new returns no results.

Cost per run

This Actor uses pay-per-result pricing: $3.00 per 1,000 results ($0.003 per result), with the Apify platform fee included. You are charged for the records a run returns and nothing is added on top for platform usage. A run that finds nothing new returns no results, so it has no per-result charge. The Max results input caps what a run can return (and so what it can cost).

Worked example: a daily alert that finds 15 new matching grants returns 15 results, so 15 × $0.003 = $0.045 for that run, about $1.35 for a 30-day month. A one-off pull of 2,000 opportunities costs 2 × $3.00 = $6.00.

The pricing is configured in Apify Console; the Pricing tab on this page is the authoritative source if it ever differs from this text.

Example input and output

The output below comes from real test runs of this Actor. Email addresses are masked and very long text is shortened here; the Actor returns the full values.

Input used for the example:

{
  "keyword": "broadband",
  "statuses": ["posted", "forecasted"],
  "eligibilities": ["12", "23"],
  "postedWithinDays": 30,
  "minAwardCeiling": 100000,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "stateKey": "broadband-nonprofit-smallbiz",
  "maxResults": 200
}

Output (the first 2 records of a test run):

[
  {
    "opportunityId": "364132",
    "opportunityNumber": "SB-OEDSB-27-001",
    "title": "FY27 Small Business Development Center State of Kansas Network Rebid",
    "agencyCode": "SBA",
    "agencyName": "Small Business Administration",
    "status": "posted",
    "docType": "synopsis",
    "postedDate": "2026-10-20",
    "closeDate": "2026-11-19",
    "assistanceListings": "59.037",
    "url": "https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/364132",
    "parentAgency": "Small Business Administration",
    "category": "Discretionary",
    "fundingCategories": "Business and Commerce",
    "fundingInstruments": "Cooperative Agreement",
    "eligibleApplicants": "Small businesses; Public and State controlled institutions of higher education",
    "eligibilityNotes": null,
    "estimatedTotalFunding": null,
    "awardCeiling": 1144946,
    "awardFloor": 777777,
    "expectedNumberOfAwards": 1,
    "costSharingRequired": true,
    "archiveDate": "2026-12-19",
    "lastUpdatedDate": "2026-10-20",
    "description": "Eligible organizations, as defined in Section 3.2, may apply to SBA for an award of financial assistance under this Funding Opportunity to fund an SBDC Program. SBDC Programs deliver professional, high quality, individua…",
    "contactName": "Benee Edwards Grantor",
    "contactEmail": "[email masked]",
    "contactPhone": "2022723268",
    "additionalInfoUrl": null,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-21T01:21:03.863Z"
  },
  {
    "opportunityId": "363779",
    "opportunityNumber": "RUS-ARC-2026",
    "title": "Affordable Rural Cooperative (ARC) Energy Program",
    "agencyCode": "USDA-RUS",
    "agencyName": "Rural Utilities Service",
    "status": "posted",
    "docType": "synopsis",
    "postedDate": "2026-10-19",
    "closeDate": "2026-11-20",
    "assistanceListings": "10.758",
    "url": "https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/363779",
    "parentAgency": "Department of Agriculture",
    "category": "Discretionary",
    "fundingCategories": "Energy",
    "fundingInstruments": "Other",
    "eligibleApplicants": "Others (see text field entitled \"Additional Information on Eligibility\" for clarification)",
    "eligibilityNotes": "(1) Operating Electric cooperatives described in section 501(c)(12) or 1381(a)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 who are currently or have been in the past a RUS electric loan borrower pursuant to the RE Act;(2) El…",
    "estimatedTotalFunding": 175000000,
    "awardCeiling": 20000000,
    "awardFloor": 100000,
    "expectedNumberOfAwards": 30,
    "costSharingRequired": true,
    "archiveDate": "2026-12-20",
    "lastUpdatedDate": "2026-10-19",
    "description": "The Rural Utilities Service (RUS or the Agency), a Rural Development (RD) agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), is soliciting Letters of Interest (LOI) for applications under the Affordable Rural …",
    "contactName": "Amy A McWilliams Grantor",
    "contactEmail": "[email masked]",
    "contactPhone": "2022058663",
    "additionalInfoUrl": "https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/electric-programs/affordable-rural-cooperative-arc-program",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-21T01:21:06.143Z"
  }
]

Limits worth knowing

• Data is read live from Grants.gov on every run, so it is as fresh as the Grants.gov site itself.
• Award amounts, deadlines and totals are empty when the agency did not publish them, which is common for forecasts.
• With Include details off the run is faster, but the detail-only fields (ceiling, floor, eligibility, contact and so on) are not filled.
• The minimum award ceiling filter needs the detail data, so opportunities without a published ceiling are skipped when it is set.
• With a small Max results and Only new on, each run returns the next unseen batch, not the same records again.

FAQ

Do I need an API key or a Grants.gov account?

No. The Actor uses the public Grants.gov API without a key or login.

How current is the data?

Every run queries Grants.gov directly, so it shows what Grants.gov shows at that moment.

Why are some amounts empty?

The agency did not publish them. Forecast notices often have no ceiling or floor yet.

How do I find opportunities my organization can apply to?

Use the eligible-applicant filter (for example nonprofits, state governments or small businesses) together with a keyword.

Does it submit applications or give grant advice?

No. It returns public opportunity data only.

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Data comes from Grants.gov, a US government source. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by any government agency.