Browse federal grants
Find a federal grant program by category, by agency, or alphabetically, or jump to the eligibility finder.
PlainGrants catalogs the active federal assistance programs in the SAM.gov Assistance Listings (formerly the CFDA), linked to their live Grants.gov funding opportunities. Browse the full catalog the way that fits how you search: pick a category if you know your sector, drill in by administering agency if you already work with a department, scan the rankings to see the largest and most active programs, or step through programs alphabetically below. If you're not sure where to start, the eligibility finder filters every program by organization type, sector, and award size in under a minute.
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All grant programs
The full searchable catalog of federal assistance programs.
Open opportunities
Live Grants.gov funding notices with upcoming deadlines.
By federal agency
Programs grouped by the agency that administers them.
Rankings
Largest programs, most active programs, and more.
Eligibility finder
Filter every program by who you are and what you need.
Guides
Plain-English walkthroughs of the application process.
Browse alphabetically
Programs
According to the U.S. General Services Administration, the SAM.gov Assistance Listings catalog tracked 80,922 federal grant opportunities across 504 assistance programs and 25 federal agencies as of July 2026. See our methodology for how this data is sourced and verified.
| Publisher | PlainGrants |
| Sources | the SAM.gov Assistance Listings and Grants.gov |