Federal Emergency Management Association
fema.gov

FEMA assists in the recovery from natural disasters like floods and hurricanes, and these days, unnatural disasters like terrorist attacks. FEMA has an office in every state, the address of which you can find on the website.

Federal Register
gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html

Use this site for new grant opportunities and every minute thing your federal government does every day.

GovSpot
govspot.com

GovSpot is an exhaustive set of links to state agencies plus subject listings for federal agencies.

Grants.gov
grants.gov

You can search here for information on more than $400 million in federal grants. You’ll also find information on the multistep process required to apply online (which is your only option in many cases).

National Endowment for the Arts
arts.gov

Most grants are for organizations, not individual artists.

National Endowment for the Humanities
neh.gov

The NEH funds research of all kinds in the arts and humanities, including documentary films.

National Science Foundation
nsf.gov

This is a portal for locating government grants in science and engineering.

Small Business Administration
sba.gov

Most programs are for for-profits.

StateLocalGov.Net
statelocalgov.net

Use this site to find websites of state and local government agencies nationwide.

U.S. Department of Education
ed.gov

The Department of Education makes thousands of grants, but many are to state agencies only. Read the eligibility requirements first when reviewing these RFPs.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
dhhs.gov

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is one of the government’s largest grantmakers.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
epa.gov

Information on grants and links to regional resources.

USA.gov
usa.gov

Provides links to grants; nonprofit registration; tax information; and to state, local, and tribal governments.

For state websites, try the state name and “.gov”; for example, oregon.gov or illinois. gov.