Find Public Funding the Easy way
A search engine for grant money, nothing more.
No sign-up wall, no results held back for later. Sign in only if you want Scout to watch your terms daily — that stays optional.
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Search or browse
Type a few words about what you do, or browse open opportunities by program and state. No form, no account — results show up as you type.
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See what fits, and why
Every result is ranked with the plain-English reason it matched — a term in the title, an agency you searched for, a deadline coming up. Never a made-up score.
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Apply on the funder's own site
Every card links straight to the source — Grants.gov, SBIR.gov, SAM.gov, or the state portal. We never stand between you and the application.
12 sources have listings in today's catalog — not a stub list.
Every result names its source and links straight back to it. Nothing here is invented, summarized past recognition, or shown to you because someone paid for placement.
Grants.gov
Federal
Every posted and forecasted opportunity across every federal agency. The primary federal feed, no key required.
SBIR.gov / DoD SBIR
Federal
SBIR & STTR solicitations from every participating agency — DoD's own DSIP topics are merged straight in, not a separate search.
SAM.gov
Federal
Contract notices, BAAs, and combined synopsis/solicitations with an R&D flavor Grants.gov never sees — plus a place-of-performance filter that scopes this same feed to any one state.
California Grants Portal
State
Every CA agency's grants, by law (Grant Information Act of 2018). CKAN-backed, refreshed daily.
WA Dept. of Commerce
State
Live RFP / RFQQ / RFI / NOFO / RFA postings across every Commerce division — a dedicated native adapter, not a link-out.
Serve DC — Grants Clearinghouse
State
The District's own single electronic clearinghouse for every current government grant notice.
Kansas Grants Calendar
State
Commerce's annual table of grant programs with amounts, match, and application windows — including ACCEL-KS SBIR/STTR match.
NC.gov Grant Opportunities
State
The state's public table of currently published grant programs across every NC agency, including One North Carolina Small Business.
Business.NJ.gov Funding
State
Current NJ grant, loan, and tax-credit programs with eligibility on the public funding page.
New Mexico EDD Grants
State
Named EDD programs, including the state SBIR matching grant, each linked to its public page.
Texas Incentive Programs
State
Governor's Office programs — Enterprise Fund, JETI, TSIF, and related standing incentives.
Business Oregon Programs
State
Alphabetical public list of Oregon grant, loan, and incentive programs, including SBIR/STTR support.
56 of 56 states, DC, and territories have at least one live, searchable source today — 9 with a dedicated adapter above, the other 47 covered by SAM.gov’s own place-of-performance filter scoped to that one jurisdiction. See exactly which for any state below.
Every state, DC, and every territory. Click one.
Each pill deep-links into a live search already scoped to that jurisdiction — not a promise, a working link.
- Source adapters queried every search
- 12
- States, DC & territories with live coverage
- 56/56
- With a purpose-built state adapter (CA, WA, DC)
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- Cost to search, browse, or see a result — ever
- $0
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Sourced live, nothing invented
Every result comes straight from the funder's own feed. A missing deadline or amount shows as missing, never guessed.
Real links, not our paywall
Every result links to the actual Grants.gov, SBIR.gov, SAM.gov, or state page. You apply there, not here.
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No score theater
Matches are ranked by real signals — title hits, agency match, deadline — and shown as Strong / Possible / Stretch, never a made-up percentage.
One search box, every kind of funding seeker.
The same live catalog, ranked differently depending on what you searched.
Small businesses & SBIR/STTR
Federal SBIR/STTR topics, DoD included, plus every posted Grants.gov and SAM.gov opportunity that names R&D.
Nonprofits & local governments
California, Washington, and DC's own live grant systems, plus every other state's federal opportunities filtered to that state — with a verified reference link to that state's commerce/economic-development agency alongside.
Researchers & universities
The same live federal research feeds, plus verified reference links to state SBIR/STTR matching-grant programs as they get wired into live search.
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