Federal grant awards

Search federal grant and assistance award records, compare recipients, programs, agencies, dates, and obligations, and review one grant award in depth.

Click Federal Grant Awards, or open GovTribe, expand the sidebar if it is collapsed, expand Awards, and click Federal Grant Awards.

Federal Grant Awards is available on Launch, Launch Plus, Growth, Growth Plus, and Scale.

Federal grant awards page with the Awards sidebar expanded and Federal Grant Awards selected — Federal grant awards shows search controls, page actions, and federal grant award result cards.

Search federal grant awards

For reusable guidance on quotes, required terms, alternatives, exclusions, grouped terms, and choosing between modes, see Choose a search mode and write queries.

To find a specific grant award by identifier, search for R44GM161221, then compare Award Date, Funding Agency, Federal Grant Program, and Dollars Obligated on the result card.
To find awards tied to a known assistance program name, search for Highway Planning and Construction, then add Federal Grant Program, Funding Agency, or Place of Performance filters.
To review awards that mention a recipient by name, search for Texas Department of Transportation, then add Award Date or Dollars Obligated filters if you need a narrower set.
To find awards with source text about a specific project theme, search for railroad crossing, then sort by Relevance or Award Date.
To explore transportation safety grants without knowing the source wording, search for highway rail crossing safety improvements and corridor planning, then add Place of Performance or Funding Agency filters.
To research food security assistance work, search for agricultural resilience and food security support for underserved communities, then add Assistance Type or Federal Grant Program filters.
To find awards related to autonomy and advanced systems research, search for autonomous platform research, testing, and operational experimentation, then sort by Relevance.
To review cultural resources work, search for archaeological survey and cultural resources research for federal environmental studies, then add Funding Agency or Award Date filters.

Filters and macros

For why some filters can include related records, hierarchy matches, or role-specific relationships, see Filter by related records and hierarchies.

Type	Name	Example question
Macro	Awarded Last 12 Months	Which grant awards were made in the last 12 months?
Macro	Completing Next 12 Months	Which grant awards may be approaching an end date in the next 12 months?
Macro	Not Pursuing	Which awards has my team not moved into pursuit work?
Filter	Assistance Type	Which awards are project grants?
Filter	Award Date	Which grant awards were made in the last 12 months?
Filter	Awarded Vendor (Vendor attribute)	Which grant awards went to University of Alabama at Birmingham?
Filter	Completion Date	Which grant awards have current award periods ending soon?
Filter	Dollars Obligated	Which grant awards have at least $10 million obligated?
Filter	Federal Grant Program	Which awards are tied to Highway Planning and Construction?
Filter	Funding Agency	Which awards are funded by Federal Highway Administration?
Filter	Place of Performance	Which grant awards are performed in Utah?
Filter	Pursuing	Which awards are already connected to pursuit work?
Filter	Sub - Awarded Vendor	Which downstream recipient or sub-awardee is connected through reported sub-award activity?
Filter	Ultimate Completion Date	Which grant awards have ultimate completion dates in the next 12 months?

When Federal Grant Awards opens without a search query, filters, or explicit sort, GovTribe may use recent activity and popularity signals to decide which awards appear first. Add search text, filters, or a specific sort when you want the order to match your review criteria.

Name	Direction choices	Example question
Updated	Oldest First / Newest First	Which grant award records changed most recently in GovTribe?
Award Date	Oldest First / Newest First	Which grant awards were made in the last 12 months, newest first?
Dollars Obligated	Least First / Most First	Which grant awards have the largest obligated amounts?
Completion Date	Oldest First / Newest First	Which grant awards have ultimate completion dates in the next 12 months, soonest first?

Actions

Federal grant awards has actions for the current result set, individual result cards, and the detail page after you open one record.

Page actions

These actions apply while you are working from Federal grant awards results.

Save This Search saves the current Federal Grant Awards search so you can return to the same award set later.
View Saved Searches opens saved Federal Grant Awards searches so you can rerun a saved award review.
Export Search Results exports the current award result set after you narrow it to the awards you want to review outside GovTribe.
View In Reports opens reporting views for the current award result set so you can compare award counts, obligations, agencies, recipients, programs, assistance types, places, or other rollups.
Share Search shares the current Federal Grant Awards search with another GovTribe user.
Similar finds records that resemble the selected award. Use it when an award's recipient, program, agency, assistance type, project description, or timing suggests a pattern you want to explore. Similar can be unavailable on individual result cards when GovTribe does not have enough similarity context for that award.
Create Pursuit opens pursuit choices for the selected award. Use Add Pursuit to start new capture work from the award. Use Add to Existing Pursuit to connect the award to pursuit work your team already tracks.

Result-level actions

Federal grant awards have pursuit actions in the header. For the full workflow, see Create pursuits from records and Pursuits.

Create Pursuit: Use Create Pursuit when the selected grant award should become new capture work for your team.
Add to Existing Pursuit: Use Add to Existing Pursuit when the grant award belongs with pursuit work your team is already tracking. The award stays connected to the original record, so your team can return to the source context later.
Pursuing: Pursuing appears when the selected grant award is already connected to pursuit work. Use the dropdown when the same award supports another pursuit or when you need to manage the pursuit connection.

Review a federal grant award

Federal grant award examples

A Project grant is a federal assistance award for a specific funded project or activity. In GovTribe, project grant detail pages help you review the recipient, funding agency, assistance program, assistance type, place of performance, obligated dollars, GovTribe AI, and source description context. See the project grant example in GovTribe.

Federal grant award detail for a project grant with expanded Awards navigation, header values, tabs, badges, GovTribe AI, and AI Summary — Project grant details can show recipient, agency, program, assistance type, place of performance, GovTribe AI, AI Summary, transactions, and pursuit actions.

A Block grant is a federal assistance award type that can fund broad program activity for a recipient. In GovTribe, block grant detail pages can show large obligated-dollar values, federal and non-federal obligation splits, transactions, funding timeline context, and source description updates. See the block grant example in GovTribe.

Federal grant award detail for a block grant with transaction count, obligation metrics, badges, GovTribe AI, and description updates — Block grant details can show recipient and program context alongside obligations, transactions, description updates, and funding timeline context.

A Subaward activity grant award has downstream federal grant subawards connected to the prime award. In GovTribe, use the Subawards tab to move from the selected prime award to reported pass-through activity when it is available. See the subaward activity example in GovTribe.

Badges

Badges summarize source fields and connected records on the Overview tab. Many badges include a menu that lets you filter GovTribe search by that value. When a badge says Not listed, GovTribe does not have a displayable value for that field on the selected award.

Use the linked attribute and data type pages for canonical definitions:

GovTribe AI and descriptions

GovTribe AI appears when AI is available for the selected record and your account can use it. The panel starts GovTribe AI with the selected grant award as context, so the response can stay grounded in the recipient, agency, program, assistance type, place, obligations, transactions, and related awards.

The summary and description area shows the AI Summary tab first when GovTribe has generated one. Source descriptions follow the summary. If GovTribe has multiple source description records, the tabs appear as Update #1, Update #2, and so on in update order.

If the selected grant award does not have an AI summary or source description, the Overview tab may show only the fields GovTribe has available.

Award values and dates

Federal grant award value labels answer different questions. Read the label before comparing total obligations, federal obligations, non-federal obligations, or dates.

Federal grant award obligation metrics and funding timeline context — Federal grant awards can show total, federal, and non-federal obligations along with award and completion dates.

Label	Meaning
Dollars Obligated	The total obligated amount summarized for the award.
Total Dollars Obligated	The total of all obligations for the award in the Overview metrics.
Federal Obligations	The federal obligation portion GovTribe can display for the award.
Non-Federal Obligations	The non-federal obligation portion GovTribe can display for the award.
Award Date	The award date GovTribe shows for the selected award.
Completion Date	The completion date shown in the page header.
Current Completion Date	The current completion date shown in the Overview metrics.

For broader obligation and transaction context, see Federal award values and transactions.

Funding Timeline

The Funding Timeline visualizes obligated-dollar movement across the life of the selected grant award when GovTribe has enough transaction activity to draw the chart.

Use the timeline with the Transactions tab when you need to see whether obligations were concentrated at award time, changed later, or moved across several updates.

Activity

Activity shows tracked GovTribe activity for the selected grant award. The tab can be empty when GovTribe has not tracked activity for the award or when your access does not include the activity being requested.

Use Activity when you need recent changes or record movement before deciding whether to open transactions, create a pursuit, or compare similar awards.

Transactions

Transactions shows federal transaction records connected to the selected grant award. The tab can be empty when GovTribe has no transaction records for the award, when transaction activity is unavailable from the source, or when access is limited.

For transaction context, see Federal transaction data type and Federal award values and transactions.

Subawards

Subawards shows reported federal grant subaward activity connected to the selected prime award. The tab can be empty when no subawards have been reported or connected for that award.

For downstream grant activity, see Federal grant sub-award data type and Federal grant data model.

Similar Awards

Similar Awards shows comparable federal grant awards GovTribe returns for the selected award. It can be empty when GovTribe does not find comparable awards for the selected record or when access is limited.

Use similar awards to move from one relevant grant award to comparable funded work. For the reusable workflow, see Find similar records.

Common questions

For general fixes for too many results, no results, unrelated results, broad Semantic Search matches, or filters that narrowed the search too much, see Troubleshoot search results.

Why use Federal Grant Awards instead of Federal Contract Awards?

Federal Grant Awards are awarded federal financial assistance records. Use this page when the question is about recipients, assistance programs, assistance types, obligations, award dates, or grant-funded activity. Use Federal contract awards when the question is about awarded procurement contracts. Federal grants do not use the contract IDV and vehicle layers that federal contract records use; see Federal grant data model.

Why does GovTribe use Awarded Vendor for grant recipients?

GovTribe uses the shared organization relationship behind Awarded Vendor (Vendor attribute) for grant recipients as well as contract awardees. On federal grant awards, read Awarded Vendor as the direct recipient or awardee organization. See Vendor, awardee, recipient, and subcontractor roles.

Why can Funding Agency and Awarding Federal Agency differ?

The Federal Grant Awards filter menu exposes Funding Agency for agency filtering. Result cards can also show an awarding federal agency when the award has distinct agency context. Use Funding Agency when the question is about whose program, mission, or funding is tied to the award. Open the award detail page when you need to compare all agency fields reported for a specific record. See Federal agency attribute.

How do Federal Grant Program and Assistance Type differ?

Federal Grant Program points to the Assistance Listing or recurring assistance program context above the award. Assistance Type describes the kind of assistance instrument on the award, such as a formula grant, project grant, cooperative agreement, or other assistance type.

How should I read Dollars Obligated on grant awards?

Dollars Obligated is the obligated amount summarized on the award. Expanded award metrics can also show federal and non-federal obligation splits when GovTribe has them. For broader source context on award values, obligations, and transactions, see Federal award values and transactions.

Where do sub-awards fit?

Federal grant sub-awards are reported pass-through awards under prime federal grant awards. Use Sub - Awarded Vendor when the question is about a downstream recipient connected through reported sub-award activity. See Federal grant sub-award and Federal grant data model.

Choose a search mode and write queries: Choose Keyword Search or Semantic Search and write reusable search queries.
Create pursuits from records: Start new capture work from an award or connect it to an existing pursuit.
Federal grant award data type: Review the GovTribe data type behind Federal Grant Award records.
Federal grant data model: Understand how grant opportunities, awards, transactions, sub-awards, and programs fit together.
Federal award values and transactions: Compare award-level values, obligations, and transaction records.