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Want funding you never pay back? $75 Billion+ in federal grants a year. Every open one checked against your organization.

We read every new Grants.gov posting the day it opens, check it against what you do, and email you an alert when one is actually right for you: no equity, nothing to repay. How we counted the $75B+.

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Each one comes straight from live government data, with a plain-English summary, the key facts, and a link to the official listing. The colored labels are our own opinion, added by hand for this page. The free Tuesday digest doesn't include them. One label says Skip: the fourth grant sounds like money to scale up any energy technology, but it is only for technology ARPA-E has already funded. The awards here reach into the millions, with nothing to repay. Members get grants checked against their own organization, with an alert the day a real match posts.

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DOEWorth your time · broad eligibility

Office of Science Financial Assistance Program: the FY 2027 Open Solicitation

The Department of Energy's Office of Science keeps one call open all fiscal year for any research inside its mission: advanced scientific computing, basic energy sciences, biological and environmental research, fusion, high energy and nuclear physics, and isotope R&D. About $400M, subject to appropriations, with no cost sharing for basic and fundamental research. Grants.gov lists awards of $5,000 to $10M; the NOFO sets no overall award size, and several of its program areas name their own budgets. Eligibility is about as broad as federal research money gets: every type of applicant except 501(c)(4) nonprofits that lobbied after 1995, with DOE's own national labs joining only as subrecipients; a company must show the work advances basic science, since the call does not fund commercial activity. Apply any time until September 30, 2027, or until a successor call replaces this one; some review panels require a preliminary application, and many topics recommend one.

Up to $10M per award · ~$400M program Open now · closes Sep 30, 2027 Opp # DE-FOA-0003665
Worth your time · broad eligibility View official solicitation →
NSFWorth a look · faculty before tenure, or equivalent

Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)

NSF calls these its most prestigious awards for early career faculty, and one competition runs across every NSF directorate, from biology and computing to engineering, geosciences and education. NSF plans about 500 awards a year, each a five year grant of at least $400,000 ($500,000 in biology, engineering and polar programs), with no cost share; its roughly $250M annual budget also covers the later years of earlier awards. The catch is who can lead one: an untenured assistant professor, or the equivalent, with a doctorate and a tenure track (or equivalent) appointment of at least 50% at a U.S. college, university or nonprofit research or education organization, who has never won a CAREER award. A single PI, one proposal a year, and three competitions at most. One deadline covers every CAREER proposal, whatever the directorate: the fourth Wednesday in July, next July 28, 2027.

$400K+ per 5 year award · ~500 a year Open now · closes Jul 28, 2027 Opp # 22-586
Worth a look · faculty before tenure, or equivalent View official solicitation →
NIH · CDC · FDAWorth a look · only through a small business

Parent SBIR [R43/R44], Clinical Trial Optional

The flagship R&D grant for commercializing biomedical or health technology, with no equity and nothing to repay. Only U.S. small businesses can apply, so this is the spinout lane: a company applies, and the science rides with it. R43 funds Phase I feasibility; R44 funds Phase II development. Applications close April 5, 2027.

Closes Apr 5, 2027 Nothing to repay · no cost share Opp # PA-27-100
Worth a look · only through a small business View official solicitation →
DOESkip · built for tech ARPA-E already funded

ARPA-E SCALEUP Ready: Seeding Critical Advances for Leading Energy Technologies with Untapped Potential

Heads up: the name reads like scaleup money for any energy technology, and it isn't. The listing says it plainly: SCALEUP Ready “seeks to scale the most promising technologies previously funded by ARPA-E”, meaning projects not yet commercial that carry bench scale performance to a commercially scalable version. Awards run $5M to $20M, cost sharing is required, and the call is open continuously until amended, with a listed close of September 29, 2029. Skip unless ARPA-E has already funded your technology: this is the step after an ARPA-E award, not a first one.

$5M to $20M per award · cost share Open now · closes Sep 29, 2029 Opp # DE-FOA-0003467
Skip · built for tech ARPA-E already funded View official solicitation →
Worth your time: apply for it Worth a look: read it, then decide Skip: and we say why
Real opportunities pulled from Grants.gov. Always verify details against the official solicitation before applying. The weekly digest is the same for everyone. Personalized same day alerts are the member feature.
How it works

The opportunities find you, not the other way around.

500+ federal grants are open right now across two dozen agencies, and the list changes every business day. Grants Radar does the watching, so you don't have to.

01. Scan

Every business day

We pull newly posted opportunities straight from the government’s own live Grants.gov data, the day they open.

02. Summarize

Explained, not just listed

Each one gets a plain English summary of what it funds and who can apply. Members also get each one checked against their own organization.

03. Deliver

One list, or your own.

Free: the same Tuesday issue for everyone. Members: that issue on your own weekly day, plus every open federal grant checked against your own organization, and an alert the day a real match posts.

Pricing

One grant and you're golden.

Awards with nothing to repay run from tens of thousands to millions. Land one and this pays for itself many times over. The math isn't close.

These plans add the part that wins deadlines: alerts tailored to your own organization. The weekly digest is free for everyone: grab it below.

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Why the timing matters: of the 500+ federal grants open right now, 25+ close within 30 days. On a weekly cycle you can hear about one with days left on it, or after it has already shut. Same day alerts exist to close that gap. Applying early is not itself an advantage; missing the window entirely is the thing that costs you.

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What's on the table

There's more open than anyone can watch by hand.

Federal grants are nondilutive: no equity, nothing to repay. The hard part isn't the money; it's knowing what's open before the window shuts.

$75B+
in federal grants a year, at minimum, counted from the award records behind the grants we list (how we counted →)
300+
federal programs behind the grants we list. We add up their award records to get the $75 billion a year minimum (how we counted →)
300+
open health & biomedical opportunities, our largest single category, led by NIH (the snapshot →)
1,100+
open and forecasted opportunities, each with its own page on our live board, which carries today's exact count

Individual awards run from tens of thousands of dollars to millions (chasing SBIR/STTR specifically? how it works →). The plans above turn all of that into alerts tailored to your organization (back to the plans →).

FAQ

Questions before you sign up.

Isn't this data free on Grants.gov?

The data is. Finding the two or three opportunities that are actually right for you, week after week, and knowing which to skip, is not. That's the work you're paying us to do for you.

Who runs Grants Radar?

Grants Radar is an independent service based in Springdale, Arkansas, with one owner who answers for it. The nightly data refresh and the Tuesday digest run as automated jobs; member alerts are tailored to each organization's profile; and support email is answered by the operator. More on the About page.

Do you help write applications?

No. Grants Radar surfaces, summarizes, and rates opportunities and links you to official sources. We don't write proposals or provide legal or financial advice. Always verify against the official solicitation.

What about federal contracts?

Yes. Our contract opportunities page is free to browse and lists live SAM.gov contract notices, updated daily from SAM.gov's official extract. Paid matching, same day alerts, and the Tuesday digest cover grants only. Our grants vs. contracts guide explains the split.

What about state grants?

Yes, for the states we cover. Our state grants page is free to browse and lists each covered state's open programs from that state's own official source, rebuilt daily and marked with its date (the source's own stamp, or the day we read it). Paid matching, alerts, and the Tuesday digest cover federal grants only. Coverage is stated on that page, state by state: a state appears there only when its rows are in our store.

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Every paid plan is refundable in full for 30 days: email support within 30 days and you get a full refund. You can cancel anytime, and every free digest carries an unsubscribe link, no login needed.

Why do you ask for a card on a free trial?

So your alerts start on day one and keep running without a gap. $0 charged today. On day 31 your card is charged $29/mo. Cancel any time before then and pay nothing. One free trial per customer. The free Tuesday digest never asks for a card.

What exactly gets checked?

Every open federal grant, checked against your organization. The small print under the free signup form spells out exactly which listings count. One reply sets your profile, your frequency, and how picky your alerts are.

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Every open and forecasted federal grant we track, each with its own page, regenerated daily from Grants.gov. The live count is on that page. Plus federal contract notices from SAM.gov, state grants for the states we cover (named on that page), a limited submissions board read from the announcement text, and plain English guides. No account needed; the digest just does the watching for you.

All open grantsNewest postings and what closes soon.Browse → By agencyEvery federal agency with live opportunities, ranked by open count.Browse → By categoryHealth, R&D, energy, education: funding sliced the way agencies file it.Browse → By deadlineEverything closing, month by month, soonest first.Browse → Federal contractsLive from SAM.gov: open solicitations, deduplicated and refreshed daily.Browse → State grantsEach covered state's open programs from its official source, rebuilt daily, coverage stated per state.Browse → Limited submissionsGrants whose announcement caps applications per institution, read from the announcement text, with the count of announcements we have read.Browse → GuidesHow federal funding actually works, in plain English.Read →