metadata dict | overall dict | perAgency dict | awardRangeDistribution dict | categoryBreakdown dict | eligibilityTags dict | matchingFunds dict | deadlineByQuarter dict | phasedProgramEconomics dict | topPrograms list | primarySources list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
{
"name": "GrantProbe 2026 Federal Grant Reality Audit",
"description": "Aggregated audit of 50 federal grant programs across 10 agencies covering award size, eligibility, matching requirements, and deadline cadence.",
"sourceRecords": 50,
"agencies": 10,
"timeRange": "2026-Q2",
"datePublished": "2026-05-09... | {
"n": 50,
"medianAwardMax": 1125000,
"medianAwardMin": 100000,
"noMatchingFundsCount": 32,
"noMatchingFundsPct": 64,
"rollingDeadlineCount": 10,
"rollingDeadlinePct": 20
} | {
"Small Business Administration (SBA)": {
"count": 8,
"medianMax": 2175000,
"medianMin": 7500
},
"US Department of Agriculture (USDA)": {
"count": 8,
"medianMax": 500000,
"medianMin": 12500
},
"Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)": {
"count": 6,
"medianMax": 7500... | {
"lt50K": 2,
"r50K_250K": 2,
"r250K_1M": 19,
"r1M_10M": 19,
"gte10M": 8
} | {
"Research": 11,
"Education": 7,
"Energy": 6,
"Agriculture": 6,
"Small Business": 4,
"Environment": 3,
"Community Development": 3,
"Housing": 3,
"Workforce": 3,
"Minority Business": 2,
"Veteran": 2
} | {
"nonprofit_501c3": 23,
"educational_institution": 20,
"state_or_local_government": 19,
"small_business_for_profit": 18,
"tribal_government_or_entity": 15,
"research_organization": 7,
"individual_applicant": 4
} | {
"noMatchRequired": 32,
"matchOrCostShareRequired": 16,
"unspecified": 2
} | {
"rolling_open_continuously": 10,
"Q1_Jan_Mar": 10,
"Q2_Apr_Jun": 9,
"Q3_Jul_Sep": 8,
"Q4_Oct_Dec": 4,
"annual_unspecified_quarter": 5,
"multiple_quarterly_cycles": 3,
"other": 1
} | {
"SBIR_STTR_Phase_I_typical_award_usd": 314000,
"SBIR_STTR_Phase_II_typical_award_usd": 2000000,
"SBIR_Phase_I_to_II_advancement_rate_pct_disclosed_DoD_NIH_NSF": 40,
"source": "SBIR.gov solicitation pages and SBA Office of Advocacy 2024 SBIR Annual Report"
} | [
{
"slug": "doe-loan-programs-office-title-xvii",
"agency": "DOE",
"awardMax": 30000000000,
"category": "Energy"
},
{
"slug": "hud-section-108-loan-guarantee",
"agency": "HUD",
"awardMax": 100000000,
"category": "Community Development"
},
{
"slug": "doe-arpa-e",
"agenc... | [
{
"name": "Grants.gov",
"url": "https://www.grants.gov/"
},
{
"name": "SBA Office of Advocacy",
"url": "https://advocacy.sba.gov/"
},
{
"name": "SBIR.gov",
"url": "https://www.sbir.gov/"
},
{
"name": "USAspending.gov",
"url": "https://www.usaspending.gov/"
},
{
"n... |
GrantProbe 2026 Federal Grant Reality Audit
Aggregated audit of 50 federal grant programs across 10 agencies covering award size, eligibility, matching requirements, and deadline cadence.
- License: CC-BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20632760
- Source study: https://grantprobe.com/research/federal-grant-reality-2026/
- Author: Vincent Wesley Couey (ORCID 0009-0005-6869-308X) · published via GrantProbe (grantprobe.com), part of the Lattice research network.
What's in it
Files: data.json. Main table primarySources (11 rows): name, url.
Data provenance (read before citing)
- Sourced (verifiable): the 50-program award table (
awardMin/awardMax/agency/deadline/CFDA/eligibility) is computed fromgrant-database.json, whose values are recorded from grants.gov and primary agency program pages; SBIR/STTR application-to-award ratios cite SBA Office of Advocacy and SBIR.gov public success-rate disclosures. - Derived: eligibility tags are assigned by keyword scan of the eligibility field; award "medians" use the program ceiling/floor (awardMax/awardMin), not a per-award distribution.
- Not estimated where data is absent: for programs without a public success rate (e.g. non-SBIR domestic grants) the study explicitly makes no estimate (see study-page limitations). Program-level award ceilings are statutory/announced figures, not realized-award averages.
(This provenance statement matches the study page and data.json.)
Citation
Couey, V. W. (2026). GrantProbe 2026 Federal Grant Reality Audit [Data set]. GrantProbe. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20632760
CC-BY 4.0 — free to use with attribution. Dated snapshot; verify current values before relying on them.
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