Small Business Funding Finder

Federal disaster declarations from the last 24 months for a state, or for one county, from FEMA's OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries. Each declaration has its FEMA number, title, incident type, declaration type (major disaster, emergency or fire management), declaration and incident dates, designated areas, the programs declared (Individual Assistance, Public Assistance, Hazard Mitigation), what that means for SBA disaster loans to a business under 13 CFR 123.3 and 123.4, and its FEMA disaster page. For a county it also lists bordering counties with a major disaster that included Individual Assistance, since economic injury loans can reach contiguous counties. Links SBA's disaster loan search, because SBA makes its own declarations that FEMA's data does not show. Cached for 6 hours. Informational, not legal advice.

Decode Grants.gov applicant eligibility codes (such as 23, 12 or 99) in plain words: the official label, what it means, who counts, what to watch out for, and the source for each, with an as-of date. Give codes, applicant types (such as small_business), or nothing for the full table of 17 codes. Static reference with no network access. Informational, not legal advice.

Get one Grants.gov listing in full by opportunity id (the digits at the end of a listing URL) or opportunity number. Returns status, agency, posted and close dates (or forecast dates), award ceiling and floor, total program funding, expected number of awards, cost sharing, every eligible applicant type in plain words, the additional eligibility text, award instruments, categories, Assistance Listings, the agency contact, the description (about 1,500 characters, or 6,000 with detail "full"), document folders and the official URL. Cached for 60 minutes.

List posted Grants.gov opportunities whose application deadline falls within the next 1 to 120 days (default 30), soonest first, with days left counted in Eastern Time. Takes the same keyword, applicant type, category, instrument, agency and Assistance Listing filters as search_grants. Listings with no close date or a placeholder close date are left out.

A sourced guide to SBA-backed financing for a small business, ranked for the owner's need: 7(a) small, Standard 7(a), SBA Express, 504, Microloan, the export loans (Export Express, Export Working Capital, International Trade) and the disaster loans (physical damage and EIDL). Give any of amount_needed, purposes, years_in_business and state. Each fitting program comes with why it fits, what it is for, its maximum amount, terms, SBA's published interest-rate maximums where SBA sets them, key requirements, who makes the loan, how to apply and its official sba.gov page; programs that do not fit say why. Then the next steps: SBA Lender Match and free or low-cost counseling from SBDCs, SCORE, Women's Business Centers and Veterans Business Outreach Centers, with locator links for the state when given. Facts are from sba.gov as of 2026-11-03, returned in as_of. Use it when a for-profit small business finds few grants it qualifies for. Static reference with no network access. Informational, not financial advice.

Search live federal funding opportunities on Grants.gov. Results come from Grants.gov, and users must confirm every detail on the official listing before applying; each result carries its listing link. Filter by keyword, applicant type (small businesses, 501(c)(3) and other nonprofits, tribes, local governments, individuals and more), category, award instrument, agency, Assistance Listing number, status (posted by default, or forecasted) and close date range. Returns the total matches and each listing with id, number, title, agency, posted and close dates, days left and URL. Sort by relevance (default with a keyword), closing_soonest (default without one) or newest. Results are cached for 10 minutes.