Federal Grants
How to Easily Find and Pursue Federal Prime Grant Opportunities
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How to Easily Find and Pursue Federal Prime Grant Opportunities
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Need to understand the basics of search like Keyword syntax? See Search Basics
Grant opportunities are available on the Grant Opportunity Search page, which can be found under Business Development -> Opportunities -> Grants in the sidebar or by clicking here.
On this page, you can select the Add Filters dropdown to add filters to find the opportunities most relevant to your business (a full list is below).
As you find potentially interesting grant opportunities, click the opportunity title to open up the Grant Opportunity detail page to see the opportunity description, history, related opportunities, documents, similar opportunities, potential applicants, and other details. You can also favorite the opportunity by clicking the heart button to easily access it later by selecting the My Favorites filter.
Saved Searches and AlertsFavoriting, Tracking, and PassingAll federal grant opportunity data comes from grants.gov.
Active Opportunity: Filter for opportunities with a due date in the future
Exclude No Bid: Exclude opportunities from the results that you have marked as No Bid.
My Favorites: Filter for opportunities that you have marked as a favorite
My Pursuits: Filter for opportunities linked to at least one Pursuit for which you are the owner. This filter is only available if you have Created a Pipeline and at least one pursuit.
Only Civilian: Filter for agencies outside of the Department of Defense
Only Defense: Filter for agencies within the Department of Defense
Keywords: Keywords found in the contract description, document summaries, or other metadata. Learn more about accepted keyword syntax in the Search Basics.
Agency: Filter by the federal agency that issued the opportunity
Applicant Type: Filter for the types of applicants that are eligible for the opportunity
Due Date: Filter by the current due date of the contract opportunity
Date Posted: Filter by the most recent posting date of the contract
Experience: Filter for recommended opportunities based on a company's prior experience or registration information.
Funding Amount: Filter by the amount of funding that is allocated to the grant
Funding Category: Filter for matching funding categories associated with the grant opportunity
Funding Instrument: Filter by the type of funding instrument including Grant, Cooperative Agreement and Procurement
Grant Program: Filter by the associated grant program (CFDA)
Person: Filter by the federal grant officer listed on the contract opportunity
Posting Type: Filter by either Posted or Forecasted grant opportunities
Value Range: Filter by the approximate value range of the contract as indicated in the solicitation or based on an AI estimate when a range is not indicated in the solicitation
