US Federal Grants Scraper

US Federal Grants Scraper: open and upcoming grants.gov opportunities, no account needed

Give it keywords, or filters such as an agency code, an applicant type or an Assistance Listing number, and it searches the federal grant opportunities published on grants.gov. You get one row per opportunity with the number, title, agency, status, who may apply, the award ceiling and floor, the open and close dates and a link to the notice. Two things catch people out: these are grants you can still apply for, not awards already paid out, and roughly half of them publish no award ceiling at all.

🔍 What US Federal Grants Scraper does

Each search term runs as its own search over the title and the full description, so a grant whose title never mentions your word can still turn up. Your filters narrow every term the same way. Everything lands in one dataset, and an opportunity found by two terms is delivered once.

Forecasts come in when opportunityStatus includes forecasted, or when you leave it empty. A forecast is an agency saying money is coming. Its close date is the agency's guess, which is why every row carries closeDateIsEstimated.

Every row is checked against your filters before it is charged. One that comes back for the wrong agency, status, category or listing number is dropped, and a free row tells you how many went and why.

📥 What you give it

A word on eligibility: a lot of grants are coded "Others" (25) or "Unrestricted" (99) rather than naming your applicant type. In one five-row run, three were coded "Others" and nothing else. So a narrow pick here can hide grants you qualify for.

{
  "searchTerms": ["wildfire", "watershed restoration"],
  "opportunityStatus": ["posted", "forecasted"],
  "eligibility": ["12", "25", "99"],
  "maxItems": 100
}

An input with nothing to search for, such as {} sent through the API, returns one free sample row so you can see the shape before you spend anything.

📤 What you get back

A real row from a real run, with the description cut short:

{
  "ok": true,
  "charged": true,
  "recordType": "opportunity",
  "opportunityId": "363804",
  "opportunityNumber": "RD-RBS-26-03-MPPEP",
  "title": "MPPEP Phase 3 Invasive Wild-Caught Catfish",
  "agencyName": "Rural Business-Cooperative Service ",
  "departmentName": "Department of Agriculture",
  "agencyCode": "USDA-RBCS",
  "opportunityStatus": "posted",
  "recordKind": "synopsis",
  "openDate": "2026-09-08",
  "closeDate": "2026-12-07",
  "closeDateIsEstimated": false,
  "archiveDate": "2027-01-06",
  "awardCeilingUsd": 2000000,
  "awardFloorUsd": 50000,
  "estimatedTotalFundingUsd": 6000000,
  "expectedAwardCount": 6,
  "costSharingRequired": true,
  "eligibleApplicants": [
    "City or township governments",
    "County governments",
    "Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)",
    "Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)",
    "Others (see text field entitled \"Additional Information on Eligibility\" for clarification)",
    "For profit organizations other than small businesses",
    "Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education",
    "State governments",
    "Small businesses"
  ],
  "eligibilityCodes": ["02", "01", "11", "07", "25", "22", "12", "00", "23"],
  "fundingCategories": ["Agriculture"],
  "fundingCategoryCodes": ["AG"],
  "fundingInstruments": ["Grant"],
  "fundingInstrumentCodes": ["G"],
  "alnNumbers": ["10.381"],
  "description": "The Meat and Poultry Processing Expansion Program (MPPEP) provides grants to help eligible meat and poultry processors expand their capacity, which creates new, better and more processing options for meat and poultry producers. …",
  "url": "https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/363804",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-09-03",
  "detailFetched": true,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-30T02:37:45.963Z"
}

🧾 Reading the output

Three kinds of row can share a dataset, and charged is the field that separates them.

The sample row also says recordType: "opportunity", so filter on charged == true, not on recordType.

NO_RESULTS and NETWORK are the pair worth telling apart. The first means nothing is there. The second means nobody looked, and a re-run later is the answer.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open US Federal Grants Scraper and click Try for free. 2. Type your keywords into Search terms, one per line. The form arrives with rural broadband in it, so replace that. 3. Pick a Status. If you want to narrow it, use Agency codes, Who may apply or Assistance Listing (ALN/CFDA) numbers under Filters. 4. Set Maximum rows. Keep it small on a first run. 5. Click Start, then download the dataset as CSV, JSON or Excel.

💰 How much does it cost?

$2.00 per 1,000 opportunities, which is $0.002 a row, flat on every Apify plan. A 100-row run comes to about twenty cents.

You pay for opportunity rows and nothing else per row. The sample row and every diagnostic row are free, and so are rows dropped for not matching your filters and repeats inside one run. If you set a maximum charge on the run, it stops at that figure instead of going past it.

💡 What people use it for

• A grant writer who wants a spreadsheet of what is open in their field this month, sorted by closeDate.
• A nonprofit tracking one Assistance Listing number, because last year's programme usually comes back under a new opportunity number and the same ALN.
• A consultant pulling everything open to 501(c)(3) nonprofits in one category before a client call.
• Anyone watching forecasts so the proposal is half written before the notice goes live.

🚧 What it does not do

• Opportunities, not awards. Who received a grant, and how much, is a different dataset. The table below points to it.
• Federal only. State, county, city and foundation grants are not on grants.gov, so they are not here.
• No contact details. The source records name a programme officer with a phone number and an email. None of that is returned. Open the url if you need to reach them.
• No attachments. The application package and its PDFs stay on the notice. You get the record and the link.
• Award amounts are often blank. In a sample of 40 posted opportunities, 21 published a ceiling and 11 a floor. That is the agencies, not the scraper.
• Fixed date windows. postedWithinDays takes only the nine windows listed above, never an arbitrary date range.
• No judgement. It does not score your chances or match you to grants. It returns what the agency published, as current as grants.gov has it.

🧭 Which US government data scraper do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

Do I need a grants.gov account or an API key? No. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to paste.

Can I get the list of who won a grant? Not from this one. Awards are a different dataset with almost no columns in common, and the USASpending scraper in the table above covers them.

Why is the award ceiling empty on so many rows? The agency did not publish one. null means not published. It does not mean unlimited.

What is an ALN, and why filter on it? An Assistance Listing number, the old CFDA number, names the federal programme rather than one notice. If you have had a grant before, its ALN finds this year's round even when the opportunity number changed.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes. A daily schedule with postedWithinDays set to 3 picks up what is new, and opportunityNumber is a stable key for comparing against yesterday.

What if my search matches nothing? You get one free NO_RESULTS row and the run still finishes as succeeded.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page and send the run ID with the input you used. The errorCode on a diagnostic row usually names the reason already.