US Grants & Business Incentives Feed: Grants.gov + Fed Register

US Grants & Business Incentives Feed: Grants.gov + Federal Register

Find US federal grants, loans, tax credits and rebates that a business can apply for, in one clean schema. Filter by keyword, who can apply, agency, state and deadline. Add a short business profile and every result gets a 0–100 match score with plain-language reasons. Turn on only new mode and schedule it to get alerts when new opportunities appear.

• Grants.gov: every open and forecasted federal grant and cooperative agreement, with eligibility, award floor and ceiling, deadlines, category and program
• Federal Register: funding notices that never reach Grants.gov, including SBA disaster loan declarations by state (with loan deadlines), tax credit allocation rounds and rebate programs
• One schema across sources: type (grant, loan, tax credit, rebate…), who can apply, amounts, open, close and posted dates, state, link
• Business-profile matching: keywords + state + applicant type → matchScore and matchReasons. Rule-based and explainable, no AI guesswork
• Alerts: onlyNew remembers what it has seen, so a scheduled run outputs only new opportunities and forecasts that just opened

Price: $0.002 per opportunity ($2 per 1,000). The prefilled example (40 opportunities) finishes in about 20–30 seconds.

Use this when…

• you're a grant writer or consultant and want a weekly list of new federal opportunities for each client, scored against that client's profile
• you run a small business and want to know which grants, SBIR/STTR awards and SBA loans you could apply for
• you need SBA disaster loan declarations for a state, with the physical and economic-injury (EIDL) deadlines
• you want a grants.gov feed in clean JSON, CSV or Excel for a CRM, spreadsheet, newsletter or dashboard
• you want alerts for new grants matching a keyword, agency or eligibility type

For AI agents

• Run signalloom/grants-incentives-feed (Apify MCP server call-actor, or the Apify API) with input like {"keywords": ["small business"], "eligibility": ["small_business"], "maxResults": 20}
• Returns one JSON row per open opportunity in the default dataset: title, agency, type, eligibleApplicantTypes, awardFloor/awardCeiling, closeDate, daysToClose, url, plus matchScore and matchReasons when a business profile is given.
• Typical cost: up to 20 opportunities = $0.04 at most ($0.002 per opportunity).

How to use it

1. Add keywords (e.g. small business, energy efficiency, rural), or leave them empty to list everything.
2. Optional filters: who can apply (small businesses, nonprofits…), agencies (SBA, USDA, DOE…), state, funding types, closing within N days, posted within N days.
3. Optional business profile: keywords describing the business, its state, and its applicant type. Results are then sorted by matchScore.
4. For alerts: turn on Only new opportunities, give the search a Monitor ID, and schedule the run (daily or weekly). The first run is a baseline and outputs everything.

Recipe: client pipeline. One saved task per client, each with its own profile and Monitor ID, scheduled weekly with onlyNew on. Each run is a short list of new, scored opportunities.

Output

One record per opportunity. Real examples from a run with the prefilled input (descriptions shortened):

{
  "source": "grants.gov",
  "id": "363966",
  "opportunityNumber": "HHS-2027-ACL-NIDILRR-BISA-0308",
  "title": "Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, Phase I",
  "agency": "Administration for Community Living",
  "parentAgency": "Department of Health and Human Services",
  "program": "ACL National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research",
  "type": "grant",
  "fundingInstrument": "Grant",
  "status": "forecasted",
  "eligibleApplicantTypes": ["small_business", "for_profit"],
  "applicantTypeLabels": ["Small businesses"],
  "eligibilityText": "Each organization submitting an application must qualify at the time of the award as a small business concern as defined by the Small Business Administration. Foreign entities are not eligible to comp…",
  "eligibilityBasis": "coded by agency",
  "awardFloor": 95000,
  "awardCeiling": 100000,
  "estimatedTotalFunding": 1100000,
  "expectedAwards": 11,
  "costSharing": false,
  "openDate": "2026-09-25",
  "closeDate": "2026-12-16",
  "rollingDeadline": false,
  "daysToClose": 35,
  "postedDate": "2026-09-25",
  "category": "Science and Technology and other Research and Development",
  "state": "US",
  "states": ["US"],
  "assistanceListings": ["93.433"],
  "description": "The purpose of the Federal SBIR program is to stimulate technological innovation in the private sector, strengthen the role of small business in meeting Federal research or research and development (R…",
  "contactEmail": null,
  "url": "https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/363966",
  "matchScore": 48,
  "matchReasons": ["None of your keywords appear", "Small businesses are listed as eligible", "Nationwide (federal) program", "Forecasted: not open yet, time to prepare"]
}

{
  "source": "federalregister.gov",
  "id": "2026-23019",
  "title": "Administrative Declaration of a Disaster for the State of Tennessee",
  "agency": "Small Business Administration",
  "type": "loan",
  "status": "posted",
  "eligibleApplicantTypes": ["small_business", "for_profit", "nonprofit", "individual"],
  "eligibilityBasis": "SBA disaster loan rules",
  "openDate": "2026-11-12",
  "closeDate": "2027-08-06",
  "daysToClose": 268,
  "postedDate": "2026-11-12",
  "datesText": "Issued on November 6, 2026. Incident Period: August 22, 2026. Physical Loan Application Deadline Date: January 5, 2027. Economic Injury (EIDL) Loan Application Deadline Date: August 6, 2027.",
  "state": "TN",
  "states": ["TN"],
  "description": "This is notice of an Administrative declaration of a disaster for the state of Tennessee dated November 6, 2026. Incident: Severe Storms and Straight-Line Winds.…",
  "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/11/12/2026-23019/administrative-declaration-of-a-disaster-for-the-state-of-tennessee",
  "matchScore": 40,
  "matchReasons": ["None of your keywords appear", "Small businesses are listed as eligible", "Targets another state (TN)", "Open, closes in 268 days"]
}

Field notes

• type: grant, cooperative_agreement, loan, tax_credit, rebate, procurement_contract or other. Grants.gov types come from the agency's funding instrument; Federal Register types come from the notice's wording.
• eligibleApplicantTypes: small_business, for_profit, nonprofit, individual, state_local_government, tribal, education, plus unrestricted (open to anyone) and other_see_text (read eligibilityText). eligibilityBasis says where they came from: coded by the agency (Grants.gov), SBA's disaster loan rules, or inferred from the notice text.
• state: US for nationwide federal programs, otherwise the state(s) named in the title.
• closeDate is the application deadline. For SBA disaster declarations it's the later EIDL deadline; both deadlines are in datesText. rollingDeadline: true means the source lists a far-future placeholder date, so there's no fixed deadline.
• changeType (with onlyNew): NEW, or NOW_OPEN for a forecast that has opened.
• Match score: keywords (in title 20 points each, in description 10; max 40), applicant type (listed 30, open to anyone 22, "other" 12, unknown 10), state (targets your state 20, nationwide 12), timing (open with 7+ days left 10, forecasted or no deadline 6, under 7 days 3, closed 0). The total is scaled to 0–100 over the parts of the profile you filled in.

A run summary (per-source status, counts, time) is saved as OUTPUT in the run's key-value store.

Pricing

• $0.002 per opportunity in the results
• Searches that find nothing are free

Data sources

Source	What we use	Access
Grants.gov API	search2 (search) and fetchOpportunity (details)	Official, documented, no key or login
Federal Register API	documents.json (notices), plus each notice's plain-text version (raw_text_url returned by the API) to read its DATES section	Official, documented, no key or login

Undocumented endpoints: none. Two notes: Grants.gov's sortBy value openDate|desc (newest first, used only when there are no keywords) is taken from the API's own response format, not from a documented example. The Federal Register plain-text file is a link the API itself returns, and the site's robots.txt allows it.

Not included: state and utility incentive databases such as DSIRE. DSIRE's API is a paid subscription with a key, and we don't scrape around it. State programs appear only when a federal notice names the state.

Data handling and politeness

• Only public government data is read. No login, no CAPTCHA, no bot-protection bypass.
• Requests are paced (about 3 a second at most per site), run at most 2 at a time, and back off on errors (Retry-After respected).
• No personal data: agency contact names and phone numbers are never output. contactEmail is filled only for agency role mailboxes (e.g. grantsinfo@nih.gov); personal-looking addresses are dropped. Opt-out requests for any address: open an issue.

Limitations

• Federal programs only (plus SBA declarations that name a state). It doesn't cover state, county or utility rebate portals.
• Federal Register records have fewer fields: no award amounts, and eligibility is inferred from the notice text.
• The Federal Register search covers the last 120 days unless you set Posted within N days.
• With a category filter, Federal Register notices are skipped, because they have no categories.
• State detection uses state names in titles. A federal program limited to certain states in its fine print shows as US.

FAQ

How do I find federal grants for my small business?

Set Who can apply to small business, add keywords for what you do (e.g. manufacturing, energy efficiency) and run. Results come from Grants.gov and the Federal Register, with deadlines and award sizes.

How do I get an alert when a new grant is posted?

Turn on Only new ("onlyNew": true), give the search a Monitor ID and schedule it weekly. Each run returns only opportunities that weren't there last time, plus forecasts that have opened.

Which grants is my business actually a good fit for?

Fill in the business profile (keywords, state, applicant type). Each result gets a 0–100 matchScore with matchReasons, sorted best first.

Does it include state or local grants?

It covers federal sources (Grants.gov and Federal Register notices). With a state set, it keeps programs that name that state plus nationwide federal programs.

Feedback

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