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Grant & Foundation Funding Intel

Federal grant opportunities and private-foundation giving in one normalized schema. Candid's Foundation Directory Online paywalls the funder graph; the underlying IRS Form 990-PF data is public but fragmented and hard to assemble. This actor unifies two public sources - Grants.gov (federal opportunities) and IRS Form 990 / 990-PF via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer (foundation giving) - into one queryable feed of funders, eligibility, amounts, focus areas, and deadlines.

Built for grant writers, nonprofits, and fiscal sponsors hunting non-dilutive funding.

What it does

All four emit the same normalized record: funder, recipient_or_eligibility, amount / amount_min / amount_max, focus_area, deadline, source, source_url.

Quick start

Find open federal education grants for nonprofits:

{
"mode":"grant_search",
"keywords":["literacy"],
"funding_categories":["education"],
"eligibilities":["nonprofits_with_501c3"],
"opp_statuses":"posted",
"max_results_per_query":25
}

Profile a foundation's giving history:

{
"mode":"funder_profile",
"eins":["56-2618866"],
"include_giving_history":true
}

Find foundations likely to fund your project:

{
"mode":"funder_match",
"cause":"after-school literacy in rural Ohio",
"focus_area":"Education",
"states":["OH"],
"min_assets":5000000,
"include_giving_history":true
}

Search private foundations by focus + state:

{
"mode":"foundation_search",
"keywords":["community foundation"],
"states":["CA"],
"ntee_major":["2"],
"include_giving_history":true
}

Output schema (normalized)

Dataset views: overview (AI-agent skim), opportunities (open federal grants), funders (foundation funders).

Recipient-level grant awards (990-PF Part XV)

The list of who a foundation actually funded (recipient, place, purpose, amount) lives in Part XV of Form 990-PF. ProPublica exposes the giving totals; the per-recipient lines live in the e-file XML.

The IRS now serves machine-readable 990s only as per-year bulk ZIPs (the old AWS S3 per-filing bucket is frozen at 2021), so live per-filing recipient extraction is gated behind the bulk corpus - that gating is exactly the value. In funder_profile mode, supply irs_xml_url pointing at a specific 990-PF e-file XML and the actor parses its Part XV lines into grant_award records. Without it, you still get the funder's full giving history and a note explaining the gate.

Pricing (pay-per-event)

A focused grant_search for 25 opportunities costs ~$0.15. A funder_profile of one foundation with giving history costs ~$0.018.

Monitor mode (new-opportunity alerts)

Save this actor as a task and put it on a schedule. On scheduled runs it computes the delta against the previous run (new opportunities, changed deadlines, new grants) and, if you set slack_webhook_url, posts a digest to Slack. Grant cycles are recurring - this is the recurring value.

Sources & access

• Grants.gov Search2 / fetchOpportunity - public REST API, no key, logged-out. Covers every federal grant-making agency.
• IRS Form 990 / 990-PF via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer API - public REST API, no key, logged-out. Structured 990-PF financials (grants paid, assets, qualifying distributions) for 501(c)(3) nonprofits and private foundations.
• IRS 990-PF e-file XML - public; recipient-level Part XV lines, parsed when an irs_xml_url is supplied.

Legal & responsible use. Public filings and public feeds only - logged-out, no accounts, no API keys, no paywalls. PII is minimized: agency contacts and 990-PF recipient/related-person names are public record; the actor keeps name + place + purpose + amount and never enriches into private contact data. Always verify deadlines and eligibility against the official source before applying.

AI agents & MCP

A paired MCP server (mcp-grant-funding-intel) exposes these capabilities as AI-agent tools (search_grants, find_funders, profile_funder, match_funders), and is x402 (USDC on Base) and Skyfire agentic-payment ready. The dataset's overview view and the MCP-compatible output link are built for direct LLM tool-call wiring.