U.S. Grant Funding Statistics

Most open opportunities never publish a dollar figure. Only 1,942 of 4,974 (39%) state a per-award ceiling or a total program budget. Judged strictly on per-award size the figure is lower still — 66% can't be placed in an award-size bucket at all, because some funders leave the amount to negotiation and others publish only a program-wide total, which says nothing about what any single applicant receives. Every funding number on this page describes the priced subset, not the whole pool, and the median ($500K) is the figure most organizations should size against.

Federal sources are the single largest bucket at 37% of open opportunities, but state/regional, foundation, corporate, and local sources combined make up the majority of the catchable pool -- the federal government isn’t the only game in town.

49% of open opportunities carry no state-specific eligibility restriction. Nationwide/open-to-all eligibility is the norm, not the exception; state-restricted programs are a minority of the catchable pool.

Infrastructure, Transportation, and Environment are the largest categorized focus areas by open-opportunity count (a single grant can be tagged to more than one).

67% of open opportunities are rolling or have no fixed deadline. A hard once-a-year deadline is less common across the catchable pool than the phrase “grant deadline” implies.

487 opportunities close within the next 30 days -- organizations tracking deadlines manually risk missing a meaningful share of the near-term pool.