Grants.gov Funding Opportunities Scraper

What does Grants.gov Funding Opportunities Scraper do?

It returns open and forecasted U.S. federal grant opportunities from Grants.gov: title, agency, status, posted date, due date, award ceiling, award floor, eligible applicant types and a plain text description. Grant writers, nonprofits, universities, small businesses and consultants use it to monitor new funding by keyword, category and eligibility without browsing Grants.gov by hand. Filters keep each run small, and you only pay for the results returned.

Data source

Reads the public JSON API that grants.gov's own search page calls in the browser (api.grants.gov/v1/api/search2 for listings, fetchOpportunity for details), so results are as fresh as the live site and require no login or key.

Why use it?

• Monitor new grants in a category (health, education, environment, and so on) as they post.
• Build a lead list of open opportunities a specific applicant type (small business, nonprofit, tribal government, university) is eligible for.
• Track deadlines and award ceilings across many agencies in one feed instead of checking Grants.gov by hand.
• Feed a spreadsheet, CRM or Slack channel through a Schedule and an Integration instead of a manual weekly search.

How to use it

1. Open the Actor and set the filters: keyword, opportunity status, funding category, eligibility, and how recently it was posted.
2. Click Start. Download results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the API.
3. Add a Schedule and an Integration (Slack, Google Sheets, webhook) to get new opportunities automatically.

Input

Field	Description
keyword	Search terms matched against the title and description. Blank returns all opportunities that match the other filters.
oppStatuses	Which statuses to include: posted, forecasted, closed, archived. Default is posted and forecasted.
fundingCategory	Limit to one funding activity category (Health, Education, Environment, and so on). Default is any category.
eligibility	Limit to opportunities open to one applicant type (small business, nonprofit, state government, and so on). Default is any applicant.
postedInLastDays	Only include opportunities posted within this many days. Default is no limit.
maxResults	Hard stop for the run. You are billed per result, so this caps the cost.
proxyConfiguration	Apify proxy is recommended for larger runs.

Example input:

{
    "keyword": "health",
    "oppStatuses": ["posted", "forecasted"],
    "fundingCategory": "",
    "eligibility": "",
    "postedInLastDays": "0",
    "maxResults": 60
}

Output

Every record has the same shape:

{
    "id": "grants:357658",
    "opportunityNumber": "PAR-25-155",
    "title": "Limited Competition: Small Grant Program for the NCATS Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program (R03 Clinical Trial Optional)",
    "agency": "National Institutes of Health",
    "status": "posted",
    "postedDate": "2024-12-11T05:00:00.000Z",
    "dueDate": "2026-10-19T04:00:00.000Z",
    "awardCeiling": 50000,
    "awardFloor": null,
    "estimatedTotalFunding": null,
    "numberOfAwards": null,
    "eligibleApplicants": ["Small businesses", "State governments", "Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education"],
    "fundingCategory": ["Health"],
    "fundingInstrument": ["Grant"],
    "costSharingRequired": false,
    "cfdaNumbers": ["93.350"],
    "description": "The purpose of this NOFO is to enhance the capability of NCATS CTSA Program KL2 scholars...",
    "url": "https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357658",
    "announcementUrl": "http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-155.html",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-24T08:47:12.513Z"
}

Field	Meaning
id	Stable key (grants:<opportunityId>), safe for deduplication between runs
opportunityNumber	Grants.gov solicitation or NOFO number
title	Opportunity title
agency	Publishing agency name
status	posted, forecasted, closed or archived
postedDate	ISO date the opportunity was or will be posted
dueDate	ISO date applications are due
awardCeiling	Maximum award amount in USD, or null if not published
awardFloor	Minimum award amount in USD, or null if not published
estimatedTotalFunding	Total program funding, or null if not published (forecast opportunities only)
numberOfAwards	Expected number of awards, or null if not published
eligibleApplicants	Applicant types allowed to apply
fundingCategory	Funding activity categories
fundingInstrument	Grant, cooperative agreement or other instrument type
costSharingRequired	Whether cost sharing or matching funds are required
cfdaNumbers	Assistance Listing (CFDA) numbers
description	Plain text summary of the opportunity
url	Grants.gov opportunity detail page
announcementUrl	Link to the full agency announcement, if the agency publishes one

Pricing

Pay per event: a small fee when a run starts, then a fixed price per result returned. You only pay for records that pass your filters. Set maxResults to cap any run.

Limitations

• Covers Grants.gov listings only, not agency specific systems that never publish to Grants.gov.
• Some opportunities do not publish an award ceiling, floor or estimated total funding; those fields are null rather than guessed.
• eligibility and fundingCategory filter by the codes Grants.gov itself uses, so unusual combinations may return zero results if the opportunity was not tagged with that exact code.

FAQ

Is this legal? The Actor reads the same public JSON API the Grants.gov search page calls in any visitor's browser, with no login and no personal data. You are responsible for how you use the data.

Something is missing or broken? Open an issue in the Issues tab; response time is usually under a day.