Grants.gov — the federal opportunity index
Every federal discretionary funding notice, searchable and subscribable by keyword and agency. Not a funder — the index you set standing alerts on, so notices reach you rather than the reverse.
- Indicative award
- Not a cash award (not a cash award)An index of other people's money rather than a funder.
- Timing
- Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Continuous; saved searches can email you as notices post.
- Who can apply
- Doctoral candidate, Early-career faculty, Mid-career & senior, Any faculty rank, Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Applying through Grants.gov requires active SAM.gov registration, which takes weeks. Start that before you find the notice you want.
- SSWR clusters
- Special Interest Groups
- Topics
- alerts · saved search · federal notices · SAM registration
- Apply at
- https://www.grants.gov/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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- William T. Grant Scholars ProgramWilliam T. Grant Foundation$350k · Annual cycle · Jul