About Grant Deadlines

Grant Deadlines is a free, independent deadline board for U.S. federal grant opportunities. It shows what's open, what closes soon and what's coming, in one fast list you can filter.

Where the data comes from

All listings come from the public Grants.gov API, which HHS runs for the federal government. We use two official endpoints:

• search2 returns every opportunity that is currently posted (open) or forecasted (announced as coming). Right now that's 861 open and 590 forecasted.
• fetchOpportunity returns the details of one opportunity: eligible applicant types, funding category, funding instrument, award ceiling and floor, estimated total funding, expected number of awards, cost sharing, assistance listings (CFDA/ALN), the agency's deadline note and the description.

How often it updates

• The list of open (posted) opportunities is re-checked every 2 hours, and the list of forecasts every 2 hours as well (an hour apart). New postings appear, and closed or archived ones are removed, at those checks.
• Details (eligibility, amounts, category) for new listings, and for listings whose status or close date changed, are fetched next, a few per hour, so they usually fill in within a few hours. Every listing's details are also re-fetched about every six weeks to catch other amendments (so a change to, say, award amounts can take that long to show here; the official listing is always current).
• A posted grant whose close date has passed (in U.S. Eastern time) is hidden right away, even before the next check, and its page returns "no longer open".
• Pages are cached for up to about 15 to 30 minutes, so what you see can be slightly behind the latest check. The "days left" counters update in your browser.

What we add, and what we don't

• Days left is computed from the close date and today's date in U.S. Eastern time. "Closes today" means the close date is today. The exact cutoff time (often 11:59 p.m. or 5:00 p.m. Eastern, sometimes local time) is set by the agency: check the "agency note on the deadline" and the official listing.
• The plain-English summary on each grant page is assembled only from structured fields in the listing (dates, amounts, eligibility codes, cost sharing). We don't write or guess anything else, and we don't use AI to generate listing content.
• Descriptions are excerpts. We show a shortened excerpt of the official description and link to the full text. We don't edit the wording of what we quote.
• Eligibility groups (for example "Nonprofits" or "Local governments") combine the official Grants.gov applicant-type codes. Listings marked "Unrestricted" are included in every group, because Grants.gov defines that code as open to any applicant type, subject to clarification in the listing.
• Award size uses the listed award ceiling (the maximum per award), or the floor when no ceiling is given. Amounts under $1,000 (such as "$0" placeholders) aren't sized.
• Calendar files (.ics) put an all-day reminder on the close date, with alerts 7 days and 1 day before. For forecasts, the date is the agency's estimate and is labeled that way.
• Forecasts are not open for applications. Their dates are estimates, and some agencies leave forecasts up after the estimated dates pass. We point that out on the page.

Not advice

This site is informational. It is not legal, tax or financial advice, and it can't tell you whether your organization qualifies. Read the full notice of funding opportunity and contact the agency listed on Grants.gov with questions.

Stay safe

Finding and applying for federal grants on Grants.gov is free. Federal agencies don't call, text or email people offering "free grant money" in exchange for a fee. If someone asks you to pay to receive a government grant, it's a scam.

Corrections

If something here doesn't match the official Grants.gov listing, the official listing is correct, and our copy updates automatically at the next check. A corrections form is planned but not active yet.