US Federal Grants Scraper (Grants.gov API, No Key) by TenderFeed

Find US federal grant opportunities from Grants.gov, the official listing for every federal discretionary grant and cooperative agreement (NIH, NSF, DOE, USDA, ED, DOJ, EPA, State, DoD and 20+ more agencies). Filter by keyword, agency, funding category, applicant eligibility, funding instrument, Assistance Listing (CFDA) number, posted date, deadline and award size. You get clean JSON, CSV or Excel with award ceiling and floor, expected number of awards, eligibility, cost sharing, grantor contact, attachments and the full synopsis.

Built by TenderFeed (tenderfeedhq.com) on the official, key-free Grants.gov REST API (search2 + fetchOpportunity). No API key, no login, no browser.

What can you do with it?

• Daily grant alerts for your nonprofit, university, city, tribe or startup, sent to Slack, email or Google Sheets.
• Grant-writing and consulting firms: build a pipeline of open and forecasted opportunities for each client's eligibility type.
• SBIR/STTR and research funding: track NSF, DOE, NIH and DoD announcements for small businesses.
• Market research: count funding by agency, category and award size.
• AI agents: call it as an MCP tool and ask "Which open health grants for nonprofits close in the next 60 days?"

Why TenderFeed?

• Full details, not just the search list: award ceiling and floor, expected awards, eligibility text, cost sharing, attachments, contact and synopsis come from one detail call per opportunity.
• Precise keyword search: Grants.gov's own search is full-text and also matches attachments (in our test, broadband + digital equity returned 22 opportunities, and only 2 were actually about broadband). With strictKeywordMatch on (the default), the keyword must appear in the title or synopsis. Multi-word keywords are sent as exact phrases.
• Forecasts included: get forecasted opportunities, with their estimated post and close dates, before they open.
• Same schema as our tender Actors (../sam-gov-opportunities, ../ted-eu-tenders, ../uk-tenders, ../usaspending-contract-awards), so grants and contracts land in one table.

Input example

{
  "keywords": ["artificial intelligence"],
  "statuses": ["posted", "forecasted"],
  "fundingCategories": ["HL", "ST"],
  "eligibilities": ["12", "20"],
  "agencies": ["HHS", "NSF"],
  "postedFrom": "30 days",
  "closingBefore": "2027-03-31",
  "minAwardCeiling": 250000,
  "onlyOpen": true,
  "maxResults": 200
}

• agencies match by agency-code prefix: HHS covers every HHS sub-agency (HHS-NIH11, HHS-CDC...), and DOD covers all of DoD.
• eligibilities use Grants.gov codes, for example 12 (501(c)(3) nonprofits), 20 (private universities), 23 (small businesses), 00 (state governments) and 07 (federally recognized tribes). The input form lists every code with its name.
• assistanceListings takes CFDA numbers, for example 93.855.

Output example

Real row from a live run on 2026-10-29 (shortened lists):

{
  "source": "grants-gov",
  "sourceId": "361318",
  "url": "https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/361318",
  "title": "NLM Institutional Grants for Research Training in Biomedical Informatics, Data Science, and AI (T15 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)",
  "noticeType": "synopsis",
  "status": "posted",
  "buyerName": "Department of Health and Human Services / National Institutes of Health",
  "buyerCountry": "US",
  "buyerContactName": "NLM Extramural Programs",
  "buyerContactEmail": "NLMProgram@nih.gov",
  "otherClassificationCodes": ["93.121", "93.173", "93.879"],
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-16",
  "deadlineAt": "2027-02-11",
  "estimatedValue": 17100000.0,
  "currency": "USD",
  "opportunityNumber": "RFA-LM-28-001",
  "agencyCode": "HHS-NIH11",
  "assistanceListings": [{"number": "93.879", "title": "Medical Library Assistance"}],
  "fundingInstruments": ["Grant"],
  "fundingCategories": ["Health"],
  "eligibleApplicants": ["Private institutions of higher education", "Small businesses", "State governments"],
  "awardCeiling": 775000.0,
  "awardFloor": 500000.0,
  "expectedNumberOfAwards": 25,
  "costSharing": false,
  "attachments": [{"fileName": "RFA-LM-28-001-Full-Announcement.html", "url": "https://apply07.grants.gov/grantsws/rest/opportunity/att/download/355288"}]
}

estimatedValue is the total program funding and awardCeiling is the maximum per award. Other fields: description (synopsis as plain text), eligibilityDetails, closeDateExplanation, archiveDate, fiscalYear, estimatedPostDate, estimatedCloseDate (forecasts), additionalInfoUrl, buyerContactPhone and buyerContactDetails.

Field coverage (live test, 50 open AI-related opportunities)

Description, contact name and phone: 50/50. Contact email: 49/50. Deadline: 46/50 (rolling programs have none). Attachments: 45/50. Award ceiling: 43/50. Total funding: 36/50.

Contacts (includeBuyerContacts)

On by default: grantor contacts on Grants.gov are published federal program contacts, and most are shared mailboxes. Set it to false to drop the contact name, email and phone. Emails inside the synopsis are then masked too, but the agency fields stay.

Daily alerts ("only new" monitoring mode)

Turn on onlyNew and set a monitoringId (for example "health-nonprofit-daily"), then schedule the Actor daily. Each run returns, and charges for, only opportunities you have not received yet. In our test, two back-to-back runs of the same search with maxResults: 30 returned 30 different opportunities each, with zero overlap.

Pricing

Pay per result: $3.00 per 1,000 grant opportunities ($0.003 per row), plus Apify's small run-start fee. Every row includes the full detail record. A daily alert with 10 new grants costs about $0.90 a month.

Use it as an MCP tool for AI agents

Add the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com) to Claude Desktop, Cursor or any MCP client and enable this Actor. Your agent can then answer questions like "List forecasted NSF grants for small businesses".

FAQ

Is this official data? Yes. It comes from the Grants.gov public API run by HHS for the US government. Federal grant listings are public information.

How many opportunities are there? On 2026-10-29, Grants.gov listed 877 posted opportunities, plus forecasts. The Actor fetches details for 4 opportunities at a time, and each detail call took 0.2–0.6 s in our tests.

Does it include closed or archived grants? Set statuses to include closed or archived and turn off onlyOpen.

Something missing? Open an issue on the Actor page. TenderFeed answers within one business day.