What Is GrantMine and How Do I Use It?
The Short Version
GrantMine pulls every active federal grant opportunity from Grants.gov every night, cleans it up, and puts it in a fast searchable database. You search by keyword, agency, state, or funding category. You save the ones that matter to your organization. If you're on the Business plan, you get email alerts when new matches appear.
That's it. No PhD required.
Why It Exists
Grants.gov is the official government database and it has everything — but it was designed by committee and it shows. Searching it is slow, the filters are clunky, and the results pages make you work for the information. GrantMine is built for people who search for grants regularly and need a faster, cleaner experience.
Every grant in GrantMine links back to the original Grants.gov listing. We're not replacing the official source — we're making it faster to find what you need.
Setting Up Your First Search
Go to the Search Grants page. You have a few options:
- Keyword search — Try your organization's mission area: "rural health," "arts education," "workforce development," "clean water"
- Filter by agency — Know who funds your work? Filter directly to HHS, USDA, DOE, EPA, or any other agency
- Filter by state — Some programs are regionally targeted
- Sort by closing date — See what's closing soonest so you don't miss live opportunities
Free accounts see grants closing within the next 30 days. Business accounts see the full catalog — no date filter, plus forecasted opportunities that haven't opened yet but are coming soon.
Saving Searches and Grants
When you find a search configuration that works — say, "mental health" filtered to HHS — save it. Business plan members can enable email alerts on saved searches, so when a new grant appears that matches, you get a notification the next morning. This is how professional grant writers stay ahead of deadlines without checking the database manually every day.
You can also save individual grants to your dashboard. Useful when you find something worth tracking but aren't ready to dig in yet.
What GrantMine Doesn't Do
We don't write your applications. We don't tell you whether you'll win. We don't have insider information on reviewer preferences. What we do is make sure you know about every relevant opportunity before it closes — which is more valuable than it sounds, because the number of organizations that miss good grants simply because they didn't know they existed is staggering.
Find the opportunity. Read the announcement. Then go win it.