Federal Grants — find funding you are actually eligible for

io.github.wyattpalm2-engPublished by GitHub account wyattpalm2-engv1.0.0Updated Oct 24, 2026

Find US federal grants your organization is actually eligible to apply for. Free, no API key.

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Server details

Identifier: io.github.wyattpalm2-eng/federal-grants
Transport: Streamable HTTP
Runtime: Web executable
Trust: Verified
Published: Sep 16, 2026

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Overview

AI-generated overview

Searches live U.S. federal grants on Grants.gov, filters by applicant-type eligibility, and checks prior award history.

What you can do: Find open federal grant opportunities filtered by an organization's applicant-type code, with deadlines, award ceilings and cost-sharing flags
Check whether a specific Grants.gov opportunity is eligible for a given organization type, returning eligible, ineligible or needs-review
Look up a program's prior awards by assistance-listing number: median award, largest award and recent recipients
When to use it: Useful for nonprofits, small businesses, universities, tribal governments and grant writers who want a shortlist of federal opportunities they can actually apply for, and a sanity check on whether a requested amount matches what a program usually funds.
Requirements: Remote streamable HTTP endpoint; no account, API key or environment variables declared. It queries the public Grants.gov and USAspending.gov APIs, so network access is needed.

Before you install

The README describes a paid tier: the top five matches are free and the full ranked list costs $2 in USDC paid to the operator's wallet and verified on-chain. Eligibility reflects entity type only; program-specific requirements still live in the announcement, and needs-review results are not a green light. Federal opportunities only.

Installation

In SourceWeft

Open Federal Grants — find funding you are actually eligible for in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Web executable via Streamable HTTP. Remote servers run from the web runtime once configured in a workspace.

Use with an agent

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Other MCP clients

Add this to your client's mcpServers config.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "federal-grants-find-funding-you-are-actu": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://x402-seller-m8nx.onrender.com/grants/mcp"
    }
  }
}

README

Federal Grant Fit Scanner — Grants.gov Eligibility Filter + Prior-Award Intelligence

▶ Use it free — no signup: wyattpalm2-eng.github.io/grant-fit-scanner

Runs entirely in your browser. No account, no backend, nothing uploaded or stored.

Top 5 matches free. Unlock the full ranked list for $2 in USDC — paid directly to the operator's wallet and verified on-chain in your browser. No account, no card, no processor.

Maintainer: payment setup and wallet notes are in CRYPTO.md; the card-payment alternative is in ACTIVATE.md.

Stop reading grant announcements you were never allowed to apply for.

Every other Grants.gov tool hands you a list. This one hands you a shortlist — live federal opportunities ranked by whether your specific organization can realistically win them, with the reasoning shown for every single score.

Point it at your org profile. Get back grants you are actually eligible for, that you actually have time to write, sized to what you actually need, with a read on who has been winning the money before you.

What makes this different from a Grants.gov scraper

A scraper returns rows. This returns judgment, and shows its work.

	Typical Grants.gov scraper	Federal Grant Fit Scanner
Eligibility	Dumps the raw text field	Hard mechanical gate on the federal applicant-type codes
Deadlines	Prints a date	Days remaining vs. time you need to write it
Award size	Prints a number	Compared against what you asked for
Competition	Nothing	Who actually won this program before, and for how much
Scoring	None, or a black box	Every point traced to a named fact

The eligibility gate is the whole point

Grants.gov publishes machine-readable applicant-type codes on every opportunity. A 501(c)(3) is code 12. A small business is 23. A federally recognized tribal government is 07.

This actor filters on those codes server-side, so you never even download the grants your organization is legally barred from winning. In live testing, a small business and a tribal government scanning the same database got result sets with zero overlap. That is the difference between a list and a shortlist.

It never guesses. If an opportunity publishes no applicant types, or only says "Others — see text", you get NEEDS_REVIEW, not a false green light. Absence of evidence is never reported as eligibility.

Prior-award intelligence nobody else gives you

For each opportunity's CFDA program number, the actor pulls real reported federal awards from USAspending.gov and tells you the median award, the largest, and who received them.

That single number reframes an opportunity. A $250,000 request against a program whose median prior award is $47.7M is not a good fit — it means you would be competing against major research institutions. The scanner says so, in those words, instead of quietly scoring it as a match.

Output

Every result is a ranked, CRM-ready record:

json

{  "fitScore": 79,  "band": "STRONG_FIT",  "eligibility": "ELIGIBLE",  "eligibilityReason": "Opportunity explicitly lists \"Small businesses\" (code 23) as an eligible applicant.",  "daysUntilDeadline": 65,  "title": "Advanced Development of Informatics Technologies for Cancer Research",  "agency": "National Institutes of Health",  "closeDate": "2026-10-18",  "awardCeiling": null,  "costSharingRequired": false,  "cfdaNumbers": ["93.394"],  "priorAwards": {    "medianAward": 47701808,    "sampleSize": 25,    "topRecipients": ["..."]  },  "whyThisScore": [    { "label": "Eligibility confirmed", "points": 25, "evidence": "..." },    { "label": "Comfortable runway", "points": 20, "evidence": "65 days until close." },    { "label": "Program is dominated by much larger awards", "points": 0, "evidence": "..." }  ],  "url": "https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357305"}

{  "fitScore": 79,  "band": "STRONG_FIT",  "eligibility": "ELIGIBLE",  "eligibilityReason": "Opportunity explicitly lists \"Small businesses\" (code 23) as an eligible applicant.",  "daysUntilDeadline": 65,  "title": "Advanced Development of Informatics Technologies for Cancer Research",  "agency": "National Institutes of Health",  "closeDate": "2026-10-18",  "awardCeiling": null,  "costSharingRequired": false,  "cfdaNumbers": ["93.394"],  "priorAwards": {    "medianAward": 47701808,    "sampleSize": 25,    "topRecipients": ["..."]  },  "whyThisScore": [    { "label": "Eligibility confirmed", "points": 25, "evidence": "..." },    { "label": "Comfortable runway", "points": 20, "evidence": "65 days until close." },    { "label": "Program is dominated by much larger awards", "points": 0, "evidence": "..." }  ],  "url": "https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/357305"}

whyThisScore is the contract: no number appears without the fact that produced it.

Verdict bands

STRONG_FIT (70+) — eligible, time to apply, well matched
POSSIBLE_FIT (45–69) — worth a look, some friction
REVIEW_ELIGIBILITY — you may qualify, but only prose can confirm it
WEAK_FIT — eligible but poorly aligned

Input

Field	Description
`organizationType`	Required. Nonprofit, small business, university, tribal, city/county/state, school district, housing authority, individual
`focusKeywords`	Your mission terms, e.g. `["housing", "youth"]`
`requestedAmount`	What you need in USD — unlocks award-size fit and prior-winner comparison
`canCostShare`	If `false`, matching-fund requirements are penalized heavily
`minDaysToApply`	Your realistic prep time (default 14)
`includeUnrestricted`	Also return grants open to any entity (default `true`)
`includeIneligible`	Audit what got filtered out (default `false`)

Who this is for

Nonprofits without a $299/month grant-database subscription
Small businesses hunting SBIR/STTR and agency funding
Grant writers and consultants triaging opportunities across multiple clients
Universities, tribal governments, municipalities, school districts, housing authorities
Anyone who has wasted a week on a proposal they were never eligible to submit

Data sources

Grants.gov Search API — all live federal funding opportunities
USAspending.gov — reported federal award history

Both are official U.S. government APIs serving public data. No credentials, no scraping, no terms-of-service risk, and nothing to break when a site redesigns.

Notes and limits

Covers federal opportunities on Grants.gov. Not state, local, or private foundation grants.
NEEDS_REVIEW means exactly that — the announcement text decides. Read it.
Prior-award data is matched by CFDA program number; programs with no award history report null rather than a fabricated benchmark.
Eligibility here reflects entity type. Program-specific requirements (geography, certifications, registrations) still live in the announcement.

This tool narrows the field. It does not write the proposal or guarantee an award.

Source: README.md at commit bfad96f

Tools

find_federal_grants

Find open U.S. federal grant opportunities an organization is ACTUALLY eligible to apply for. Filters by the machine-readable applicant-type code Grants.gov publishes on every opportunity, so ineligible opportunities are excluded rather than ranked low. Returns deadlines, award ceilings, cost-sharing requirements, and what prior winners of the same program actually received. Free, no key, live federal data.

ParameterslimitkeywordorganizationTyperequiredincludeForecasted

check_grant_eligibility

Given a Grants.gov opportunity ID and an organization type, return a definitive eligibility verdict with the reason. ELIGIBLE / INELIGIBLE / NEEDS_REVIEW. Never guesses: an opportunity that publishes no applicant types, or only 'Others (see text)', returns NEEDS_REVIEW rather than a false green light.

ParametersopportunityIdrequiredorganizationTyperequired

grant_program_history

What a federal grant program has actually awarded before, by CFDA/assistance-listing number: median award, largest award, and recent recipients from USAspending.gov. Use it to sanity-check whether a request is realistic — a $150k ask against a program with a $40M median means competing with major institutions.

Parameterscfdarequired

Version history

v1.0.0LatestSep 16, 2026

Score

90% of the applicable checks met

How complete this listing is, computed from the registry entry, the endpoint and public sources. Not a rating of the server and not a statement that it is safe or working today: reachability is a dated check, and no installs or reviews go into the score.