gov-grants_skill

Overview

This skill helps you find federal funding opportunities on Grants.gov by agency, category, eligibility, and status. It provides both broad search and detailed opportunity lookups so you can quickly identify and inspect relevant grants. Use it to filter results, retrieve full opportunity records, and discover available search filters.

How this skill works

The skill queries Grants.gov data to return matching funding opportunities and metadata. Use the search tools to specify keywords, agency, status, categories, instruments, and eligibility, and receive paginated results. Call the detailed lookup with an opportunity number to fetch the full grant record and related fields. A dedicated tool lists available filter options (agencies, categories, instruments, eligibilities).

When to use it

• Prospecting grant opportunities for nonprofits, researchers, or small businesses
• Narrowing results by agency, funding category, or eligibility requirements
• Fetching full details for a specific opportunity by its opportunity number
• Exploring available filter values before composing a focused search
• Regularly monitoring posted, forecasted, or archived opportunities

Best practices

• Start by calling the filter-options tool to learn available agencies, categories, and eligibilities
• Combine keyword and agency filters to reduce noise and improve relevance
• Use status (posted, forecasted, closed, archived) to limit results to actionable items
• Paginate results with limit and offset when automating discovery or batching exports
• Verify opportunity numbers from search results before requesting the detailed record

Example use cases

• Find current NSF grants for AI research using agency and keyword filters
• Search for education grants open to nonprofit organizations and export paginated results
• Get the full opportunity details for HHS-2024-ACF-001 to review deadlines and application contacts
• List all available funding categories and eligibility types before designing a targeted outreach campaign
• Monitor forecasted opportunities from a specific agency to prepare proposals in advance