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Managed by the Department of Health and Human Services, Grants.gov is an E-Government initiative operating under the governance of the Office of Management and Budget.</p><p>Under the President's Management Agenda, the office was chartered to deliver a system that provides a centralized location for grant seekers to find and apply for federal funding opportunities. Today, the Grants.gov system houses information on over聽1,000聽grant programs and vets grant applications for <a href="/learn-grants/grant-making-agencies/" uuid="7d9569a3-78d5-45ff-9196-146b8f9043d6" target="_self" linktype="story" class="usa-link">federal grant-making agencies</a>.</p><h2>Our Mission</h2><p>Provide a common website for federal agencies to post discretionary funding opportunities and for grantees to find and apply to them.</p><h2>Benefits of Using Grants.gov</h2><p>Using the Grants.gov system聽makes it faster, easier and more cost effective for grant applicants to electronically interact with federal grant-making agencies.聽It also provides the following聽key benefits, among many others, to the grant community.</p><p><b>Helping the grant community learn more about available opportunities.</b></p><ul><li><p>Centralizing more than 1,000 different grant programs across federal grant-making agencies awarding more than $500 billion annually.</p></li><li><p>Standardizing grant 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