Grant & Foundation Funding Intel

Federal grant opportunities and private-foundation giving in one normalized schema. Candid's Foundation Directory Online paywalls the funder graph; the underlying IRS Form 990-PF data is public but fragmented and hard to assemble. This actor unifies two public sources - Grants.gov (federal opportunities) and IRS Form 990 / 990-PF via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer (foundation giving) - into one queryable feed of funders, eligibility, amounts, focus areas, and deadlines.

Built for grant writers, nonprofits, and fiscal sponsors hunting non-dilutive funding.

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What it does

Mode	What you get	Source
grant_search	Open federal grant opportunities by keyword, agency, eligibility, or funding category - with award range, eligibility, and deadline.	Grants.gov Search2 API
foundation_search	Private foundations by name, state, focus area, or size - optionally with multi-year giving history.	IRS 990-PF via ProPublica
funder_profile	Deep profile of specific funders (foundation EINs and/or federal agency codes): multi-year giving trend, payout vs the 5% minimum, asset trend, and recipient-level grant awards.	ProPublica + Grants.gov + 990-PF XML
funder_match	The funders most likely to fund your cause - federal opportunities and foundations scored against a cause / focus area / region / size, with transparent match reasons.	Both, scored

All four emit the same normalized record: funder, recipient_or_eligibility, amount / amount_min / amount_max, focus_area, deadline, source, source_url.

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Quick start

Find open federal education grants for nonprofits:

{
  "mode": "grant_search",
  "keywords": ["literacy"],
  "funding_categories": ["education"],
  "eligibilities": ["nonprofits_with_501c3"],
  "opp_statuses": "posted",
  "max_results_per_query": 25
}

Profile a foundation's giving history:

{
  "mode": "funder_profile",
  "eins": ["56-2618866"],
  "include_giving_history": true
}

Find foundations likely to fund your project:

{
  "mode": "funder_match",
  "cause": "after-school literacy in rural Ohio",
  "focus_area": "Education",
  "states": ["OH"],
  "min_assets": 5000000,
  "include_giving_history": true
}

Search private foundations by focus + state:

{
  "mode": "foundation_search",
  "keywords": ["community foundation"],
  "states": ["CA"],
  "ntee_major": ["2"],
  "include_giving_history": true
}

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Output schema (normalized)

Field	Meaning
record_type	grant_opportunity | funder | grant_award | funder_match
funder_name / funder_type	Federal agency or foundation; federal_agency | private_foundation
funder_ein / funder_state	Foundation identity
title	Opportunity title or grant purpose
recipient_or_eligibility	Who can apply (opportunity) or who received the grant (award)
amount / amount_min / amount_max / amount_label	Award floor/ceiling, grant amount, or annual giving
focus_area / focus_categories	Funding category (opportunity) or NTEE focus (foundation)
deadline	Application close date (opportunities)
giving_history	Multi-year grants paid, payout ratio, asset trend (foundations)
match_score / match_reasons	Funder-match ranking + transparent reasons
source / source_url	Provenance, back to the official record

Dataset views: overview (AI-agent skim), opportunities (open federal grants), funders (foundation funders).

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Recipient-level grant awards (990-PF Part XV)

The list of who a foundation actually funded (recipient, place, purpose, amount) lives in Part XV of Form 990-PF. ProPublica exposes the giving totals; the per-recipient lines live in the e-file XML.

The IRS now serves machine-readable 990s only as per-year bulk ZIPs (the old AWS S3 per-filing bucket is frozen at 2021), so live per-filing recipient extraction is gated behind the bulk corpus - that gating is exactly the value. In funder_profile mode, supply irs_xml_url pointing at a specific 990-PF e-file XML and the actor parses its Part XV lines into grant_award records. Without it, you still get the funder's full giving history and a note explaining the gate.

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Pricing (pay-per-event)

Event	Price	When
funder_record	$0.006	Per normalized record (opportunity, funder, or award)
grant_history_enrichment	$0.012	Per foundation enriched with multi-year giving history, or per Part XV award extraction
funder_match	$0.015	Per scored funder-match result
scheduled_delta_run	$0.050	Per scheduled monitor run (new-opportunity / new-grant digest)

A focused grant_search for 25 opportunities costs ~$0.15. A funder_profile of one foundation with giving history costs ~$0.018.

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Monitor mode (new-opportunity alerts)

Save this actor as a task and put it on a schedule. On scheduled runs it computes the delta against the previous run (new opportunities, changed deadlines, new grants) and, if you set slack_webhook_url, posts a digest to Slack. Grant cycles are recurring - this is the recurring value.

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Sources & access

• Grants.gov Search2 / fetchOpportunity - public REST API, no key, logged-out. Covers every federal grant-making agency.
• IRS Form 990 / 990-PF via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer API - public REST API, no key, logged-out. Structured 990-PF financials (grants paid, assets, qualifying distributions) for 501(c)(3) nonprofits and private foundations.
• IRS 990-PF e-file XML - public; recipient-level Part XV lines, parsed when an irs_xml_url is supplied.

Legal & responsible use. Public filings and public feeds only - logged-out, no accounts, no API keys, no paywalls. PII is minimized: agency contacts and 990-PF recipient/related-person names are public record; the actor keeps name + place + purpose + amount and never enriches into private contact data. Always verify deadlines and eligibility against the official source before applying.

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AI agents & MCP

A paired MCP server (mcp-grant-funding-intel) exposes these capabilities as AI-agent tools (search_grants, find_funders, profile_funder, match_funders), and is x402 (USDC on Base) and Skyfire agentic-payment ready. The dataset's overview view and the MCP-compatible output link are built for direct LLM tool-call wiring.