Grants.gov opportunities — open federal grants search

One row per federal funding opportunity from Grants.gov, the U.S. government's central listing of discretionary grant and cooperative-agreement opportunities (about 1,000 posted and 9,000 archived on 2026-09-04). Search by keyword, status (posted, forecasted, closed, archived), applicant eligibility, agency and funding category; get the opportunity number, title, agency, open and close dates, ALN (CFDA) numbers and the Grants.gov link — and, with include_details, the synopsis, award ceiling and floor, estimated total funding, expected number of awards, eligibility codes and names, funding categories and instruments, ALN program titles and the agency contact e-mail.

Honesty note: the rows are what Grants.gov publishes; this Actor neither applies for anything nor decides who is eligible — read the opportunity's own eligibility text before you rely on it.

Data source and status

Publisher	Grants.gov, operated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on behalf of the federal grant-making agencies — https://www.grants.gov/
What this Actor reads	The public search API POST https://api.grants.gov/v1/api/search2 (no key), 100 opportunities per request, at most one request per second; with include_details, POST https://api.grants.gov/v1/api/fetchOpportunity per row. Docs: https://www.grants.gov/api/common-values
Detail fallback	On 2026-09-04 the fetchOpportunity gateway answered every call with a "no response from the backend" stub. The identical JSON record is served by the endpoint the grants.gov website itself uses (apply07.grants.gov/grantsws/rest/opportunity/details); the Actor switches to it only when it sees that exact stub, and says so in the log and in the row's details_source
Refresh cadence	Agencies post, modify and close opportunities continuously (weekday business hours mostly); the Actor reads live on every run and fetched_at is the request time
Copyright	Works of the United States Government are not subject to copyright in the U.S. (17 U.S.C. §105). The data are public; please cite Grants.gov as the source
Known caveats	Search hits carry no eligibility, funding category, ceiling/floor or synopsis — those fields are null unless include_details is on (one extra request per row). Grants.gov matches agency filters on sub-agency codes (DOL-ETA), so a top-level code is expanded here to the sub-agencies that currently have opportunities in the selected statuses. An unknown status or eligibility code makes Grants.gov return zero hits without an error; the Actor validates statuses and warns on codes it cannot find. Award ceiling/floor are the agencies' free text — none, TBD and blanks become null

Identification: the requests carry a RetrainMap-Apify/0.1 User-Agent and the operator's contact address in the standard From: header.

Input

Field	Type	Meaning
keyword	string	Optional. Free text; quote a phrase for an exact match
statuses	array	posted (default), forecasted, closed, archived
eligibilities	array of codes	Optional. 00 state governments, 01 county, 02 city/township, 04 special district, 05 independent school districts, 06 public higher education, 07 federally recognised tribal governments, 08 public housing authorities, 11 other tribal organisations, 12 501(c)(3) nonprofits, 13 other nonprofits, 20 private higher education, 21 individuals, 22 for-profits other than small businesses, 23 small businesses, 25 others (see the opportunity text), 99 unrestricted
agencies	array of codes	Optional. Grants.gov agency codes (DOL-ETA, HHS-ACF, USDA-NIFA, ED, NSF); a top-level code (DOL, HHS) is expanded to its sub-agencies
funding_categories	array of codes	Optional. AG agriculture, AR arts, BC business and commerce, CD community development, DPR disaster prevention and relief, ED education, ELT employment, labor and training, EN energy, ENV environment, FN food and nutrition, HL health, HU humanities, IIJ Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, ISS income security and social services, LJL law, justice and legal services, NR natural resources, O other, ST science, technology and R&D, T transportation
include_details	boolean	Default false. Adds the detail record per row
max_records	integer	Default 300 (the form prefills 100)
request_interval_ms	integer	Default 1000 (floor 250)
contact_email	string	Sent in the From: header

Example — every current and forecasted Department of Labor opportunity, with details:

{ "statuses": ["posted", "forecasted"], "agencies": ["DOL"], "include_details": true, "max_records": 50 }

Output (dataset row)

opportunity_id, opportunity_number, title, agency_code, agency_name, top_agency_code, top_agency_name, status, doc_type (synopsis or forecast), open_date, close_date (ISO dates; null when Grants.gov shows none), aln_numbers, grants_gov_url, fetched_at, source — plus, filled only with include_details: detail_kind, award_ceiling, award_floor, estimated_total_funding, expected_awards, cost_sharing, posting_date, archive_date, close_date_detail, eligibility_codes, eligibility_names, additional_eligibility_info, funding_category_codes, funding_category_names, funding_instruments, aln_program_titles, agency_contact_email, forecast_est_post_date, forecast_est_award_date, forecast_est_project_start, synopsis (HTML stripped, first 5,000 characters), synopsis_truncated, details_source.

Rows are sorted by posting date, newest first. A run summary (filters, the agency codes actually sent, Grants.gov's own hit count, request count) is stored as RUN_SUMMARY in the run's key-value store.

Pricing (pay per event)

Event	Price
run-start — once per run	$0.10
record — per row written	$0.005

The default 100-row search costs $0.60; 300 rows $1.60. Details do not change the price per row. Rows stop when your run's maximum charge is reached; the run summary says so.

Operator

Steelyard Ventures LLC (RetrainMap) — info@steelyardclinical.com. The Actor writes only to its own dataset and key-value store; it stores no credentials and sends nothing else.