US Grant Opportunities: Grants.gov + State Grant Portals (California, Illinois)

One clean, deduplicated table of open and upcoming grant opportunities from federal and state government portals. Search Grants.gov together with the California Grants Portal and the Illinois Catalog of State Financial Assistance (CSFA), with normalized deadlines, award ranges, eligibility and links.

Most grant scrapers stop at Grants.gov. State grant programs are often easier to win and less competitive, but they're scattered across separate state portals in different formats. This Actor puts them in the same schema as federal opportunities.

No login and no API key. Sources are official public government portals and open-data feeds.

Who uses it

• Nonprofits and grant writers building a weekly pipeline of opportunities they qualify for.
• Grant consultants monitoring many funding streams for clients.
• Local governments, schools and tribes tracking state and federal funding.
• Grant-alert newsletters, CRMs and AI agents that need structured opportunity data on a schedule.

What data you get

Field	Notes
source, jurisdiction	grants.gov / US-Federal, grants.ca.gov / US-CA, grants.illinois.gov (CSFA) / US-IL
title, agency, opportunityNumber
status	open, forecasted, closed (normalized across portals)
openDate, closeDate, daysUntilClose	ISO dates; days left computed for you
awardFloor, awardCeiling, estimatedTotalFunding, expectedAwards	where the portal publishes them
eligibleApplicants, eligibilityNotes	e.g. "Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status..."
categories, fundingInstrument, matchingFunds, geography
description	synopsis / purpose text (up to 4,000 characters)
url, applicationUrl	official listing and application links
assistanceListings	federal ALN/CFDA numbers

How to use

1. Enter keywords (e.g. youth, mentoring, broadband, wildfire).
2. Choose sources and statuses (open and forecasted by default).
3. Optionally filter by applicant type (e.g. 501(c)(3) nonprofit), closing within N days, and minimum award ceiling.
4. Run on a schedule (e.g. every Monday) and send results to Google Sheets, Slack or email through Apify integrations.

Example input

{
  "keywords": ["youth", "mentoring", "after-school"],
  "sources": ["grants.gov", "california", "illinois"],
  "statuses": ["open", "forecasted"],
  "applicantTypes": ["nonprofit501c3"],
  "closingWithinDays": 90
}

Example output

{
  "source": "grants.ca.gov",
  "jurisdiction": "US-CA",
  "title": "2026 CalAgPlate Grant Program",
  "agency": "CA Department of Food and Agriculture",
  "status": "open",
  "openDate": "2026-10-06",
  "closeDate": "2026-11-02",
  "awardFloor": 2500,
  "awardCeiling": 195500,
  "estimatedTotalFunding": 230000,
  "eligibleApplicants": "Nonprofit; Public Agency; Tribal Government",
  "matchingFunds": "Not Required",
  "url": "https://www.grants.ca.gov/grants/..."
}

Features

• Federal + state in one schema, sorted by soonest deadline.
• Full federal details (award floor/ceiling, number of awards, cost sharing, eligibility text) through the official Grants.gov API.
• Strict keyword mode keeps federal results relevant (Grants.gov's own search is very broad).
• Privacy-friendly: program officers' names and emails are omitted unless you turn on includeContacts.
• More states coming: the architecture makes each new state portal one small adapter.

Pricing

Pay per opportunity returned (see the Pricing tab). No subscription. Filtering happens before you're charged.

Limitations

• Illinois list pages don't publish eligibility or descriptions; you get title, agency, dates, award range and links.
• California award amounts are parsed from the portal's free-text "estimated amounts" field; the original text is kept in estimatedAmountsText.
• Always confirm details in the official notice of funding opportunity before applying.

Legal

The Actor uses official public sources only: the Grants.gov public search and opportunity APIs, the California Grants Portal open-data feed on data.ca.gov (public domain), and the Illinois GATA/CSFA public opportunity list. It doesn't log in, bypass access controls or collect personal data by default.