US Grants Scraper (Grants.gov Funding Opportunities)

Get US federal grant opportunities from Grants.gov, the official place where every federal agency posts its grants and cooperative agreements, as one clean table. Each row has the agency, award ceiling, closing date, eligibility, category and a link to apply. Data comes from the official Grants.gov API: no key, no login.

Filter by keyword, agency, funding category, eligibility and amount. Turn on alerts mode and schedule a daily run to receive only new opportunities.

What does US Grants Scraper do?

• Searches open (posted) and upcoming (forecasted) grants, and closed or archived ones if you want history.
• Fetches the full details of each opportunity: description, award ceiling or total funding, eligible applicants, funding category, grant or cooperative agreement, agency phone.
• Cleans the text (no HTML), uses ISO dates and links every row to its Grants.gov page.
• Outputs the same format as our government tender scrapers, so grants and contracts fit in one sheet.

Who uses it?

• Nonprofits, universities and research teams looking for funding.
• Grant writers and consultants who track opportunities for several clients.
• Small businesses looking for SBIR and STTR style funding.
• Cities, counties and tribes watching for federal programs they can apply to.
• Grant newsletters and databases that need a clean daily feed.

What data do you get?

Field	Example
title	State Process for Informing Consumers of Recalls Program
buyerName, buyerId	National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, DOT-NHTSA
valueAmount, valueCurrency	1500000, USD (award ceiling, or total funding when no ceiling is given)
publishedDate, deadlineDate	2026-11-04, 2027-02-04
procurementCategory	Grant, Cooperative Agreement
categoryDescription	Consumer Protection
categoryCodes	Assistance Listing (CFDA) numbers, e.g. 20.614
description	full program description plus eligible applicants
stage, status	tender (open) or planning (forecast), posted / forecasted / closed
noticeUrl	Grants.gov opportunity page

How to use it

1. Click Try for free.
2. Keep the default (newest open opportunities) or add keywords, agencies or categories.
3. Click Start. A run of 50 opportunities with full details takes about 15 seconds.
4. Download as Excel, CSV or JSON, or send the results to Google Sheets, Slack, email, Zapier or Make.

Input example

{
    "keywords": ["climate", "STEM education"],
    "statuses": ["posted", "forecasted"],
    "agencies": ["NSF", "DOE"],
    "eligibilities": ["12"],
    "minValue": 100000,
    "onlyOpen": true,
    "maxItems": 200
}

Output example

{
    "source": "grants-gov",
    "noticeId": "364212",
    "ocid": "NHTSA-693JJ927R000007-FY27",
    "noticeType": "synopsis",
    "stage": "tender",
    "status": "posted",
    "title": "State Process for Informing Consumers of Recalls Program",
    "description": "The objective of the State Process for Informing Consumers of Recalls Grant program is to establish a recall notification program in a state to improve traffic safety in the following areas: developing a methodology for determining open recalls on motor vehicles, informing owners and lessees of the...",
    "buyerName": "National Highway Traffic Safety Administration",
    "buyerId": "DOT-NHTSA",
    "buyerCountry": "United States",
    "buyerCity": null,
    "buyerContactEmail": null,
    "buyerContactPhone": "240-421-4046",
    "buyerWebsite": null,
    "cpvCodes": [],
    "categoryCodes": [
        "20.614"
    ],
    "categoryDescription": "Consumer Protection",
    "procurementCategory": "Grant",
    "procurementMethod": null,
    "valueAmount": 1500000,
    "valueCurrency": "USD",
    "publishedDate": "2026-11-04",
    "deadlineDate": "2027-02-04",
    "contractStartDate": null,
    "contractEndDate": null,
    "placeOfPerformance": [],
    "suitableForSme": null,
    "awardedSuppliers": [],
    "awardValueAmount": null,
    "awardDate": null,
    "noticeUrl": "https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/364212",
    "documentUrls": [],
    "language": "en",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-11-05T12:40:00.000Z"
}

How much does it cost?

Pay per result: $3 per 1,000 opportunities delivered, plus a tiny Apify start fee per run. No proxy or browser costs.

• There are usually 1,000 to 2,000 open federal grant opportunities at any time; a focused search returns far fewer.
• A daily alert usually returns 0 to 30 new opportunities a day.
• Apify's free plan includes monthly credit, enough to try the Actor many times.

Alerts mode and integrations

Turn on Only new since last run and schedule the Actor daily. It remembers delivered opportunities in your own Apify account and outputs only new ones (and skips fetching their details again). Use a different Alerts state name for each saved search. Send results to Slack, email, Google Sheets, Airtable, Notion, Zapier, Make or a webhook.

Other Actors with the same output format

• US Federal Contract Awards Scraper (USAspending.gov): who won federal contracts and for how much.
• UK Public Tenders, EU TED Tenders and CanadaBuys Tenders: government tenders in the UK, EU and Canada.

FAQ

Is this legal? Yes. Grants.gov is the US government's official grants portal and offers this public API for anyone to use. Federal government information is in the public domain.

Why is buyerContactEmail usually empty? We only output organisation mailboxes (for example a grants office inbox). Personal mailboxes and contact person names are removed on purpose, so the dataset contains no personal data.

Why is the closing date empty for some opportunities? Some programs accept applications on a rolling basis or announce the date later. Turn on Only with a future closing date to drop them.

What do the codes mean? Category, eligibility and instrument codes are the ones Grants.gov uses in its own search. The most common ones are listed under each input field.

Something looks wrong? Open an issue on the Issues tab. An automatic self-check runs every day to detect changes in the source, and problems are usually fixed within a day.