Grants.gov Monitor: U.S. federal grant alerts

Get new U.S. federal funding opportunities from Grants.gov, the official source for federal grants, filtered by keyword, agency, funding category, eligible applicant type and instrument. Scheduled runs deliver only opportunities you have not seen before, including forecasts (announced, not yet open). When a forecast opens for applications, you get it again with becamePosted: true.

Each opportunity comes with award ceiling and floor, estimated total funding, number of awards, close date, days left, eligible applicants, funding categories and assistance listing (CFDA): the numbers you need for a go/no-go decision, without clicking through the portal.

Typical uses: a weekly grant alert for your nonprofit, university lab or small business · SBIR/R&D funding watch for startups · grant consultants tracking several clients' topics · feeding new opportunities into Airtable, Notion, a CRM or Slack.

Output per opportunity

opportunityId · opportunityNumber · title · agency · agencyCode · status (posted/forecasted) · postedDate · closeDate · daysToClose · awardCeiling · awardFloor · estimatedTotalFunding · expectedNumberOfAwards · costSharingRequired · eligibleApplicants[] · fundingInstruments[] · fundingCategories[] · category · assistanceListings[] · programTitles[] · forecasts: estimatedPostDate · estimatedCloseDate · estimatedAwardDate · fiscalYear · becamePosted · matchedKeyword · url · agencyProgramUrl · dataWarning

Example (real runs, 13.10.2026)

Keywords artificial intelligence + machine learning, posted in the last 8 weeks, posted + forecasted → 81 opportunities (77 open, 4 forecasts). A second run right after: 0 new. With filters small businesses eligible, closing within 60 days, award ceiling ≥ $100,000 → 4 of 29 matches, e.g. DOE Quantum Genesis Q Competition (ceiling $200,000,000, closes in 6 days) and Silicon Carbide Cladding Lead Test Rod Development (ceiling $62,500,000).

{
 "opportunityId": "363869",
 "opportunityNumber": "DE-FOA-0003657",
 "title": "The DOE Quantum Genesis Q Competition",
 "agencyCode": "PAMS-SC",
 "agency": "Office of Science",
 "status": "posted",
 "postedDate": "2026-09-17",
 "closeDate": "2026-10-19",
 "daysToClose": 6,
 "assistanceListings": [
  "81.049"
 ],
 "url": "https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/363869",
 "becamePosted": false,
 "awardCeiling": 200000000,
 "awardFloor": 250000,
 "estimatedTotalFunding": 215000000,
 "expectedNumberOfAwards": 10,
 "costSharingRequired": false,
 "eligibleApplicants": [
  "Small businesses",
  "For profit organizations other than small businesses"
 ],
 "fundingInstruments": [
  "Other"
 ],
 "fundingCategories": [
  "Science and Technology and other Research and Development"
 ],
 "category": "Discretionary",
 "fiscalYear": null,
 "lastUpdated": "2026-10-08",
 "archiveDate": "2027-01-19",
 "programTitles": [
  "81.049 Office of Science Financial Assistance Program"
 ],
 "dataWarning": null
}

Input

{ "keywords": ["artificial intelligence"], "eligibilities": ["23"], "statuses": ["posted", "forecasted"], "closingWithinDays": 60, "minAwardCeiling": 100000 }

• Leave keywords empty to watch everything that matches the other filters (e.g. all new NSF opportunities: "agencies": ["NSF"]).
• fetchDetails (default on) adds the funding numbers and eligibility (one extra API call per new opportunity).
• maxOpportunities (default 100) caps a run; opportunities above the cap come in the next run.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.002 per opportunity on the free plan, −10/−20/−30 % on higher Apify plans. Already-delivered and filtered opportunities are never charged.

License, data quality, limits

• This product uses the Grants.gov API but is not endorsed or certified by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (Grants.gov API terms: https://www.grants.gov/api/terms-conditions)
• No personal data: agency contact names, e-mails and phone numbers and the free-text descriptions (which often name program officers) are not included. Use url for the full announcement.
• Amounts are passed on exactly as published; null means the agency did not state the amount ("none" or empty). Grants.gov sometimes shows 2147483647 (a system maximum, not a real amount). The Actor then sets the field to null and explains it in dataWarning; a placeholder is never passed on as an amount.
• daysToClose counts calendar days from the run date (UTC). Close times are usually 11:59 PM Eastern; check the announcement.