Please use this guide to help you register and apply for grants using Grants.gov. You may also visit:
Allow enough time to complete these steps before you start your grant application:
SAM.gov will provide a unique entity identifier (UEI) for your organization, which is required to apply for grants using Grants.gov.
Use the same email address to register your organization's electronic business point of contact at SAM.gov as the one you use to register at Grants.gov. As a result, you will be designated as a superuser for your organization in Grants.gov.
Obtaining your UEI may take several weeks. Full registration at SAM.gov can take longer, so you should start well before your grant's deadline. Each Grants.gov user who wants to download forms or work on them online must also have an account with Login.gov. When you register at Grants.gov, you will be prompted to link your Grants.gov account to your Login.gov account.
During this process, you will enter some basic information, validate your email address, and create a profile, either for your organization or for yourself.
Every person who uses Grants.gov to apply for a grant must have a profile, whether they download forms to fill them out or they use your grant application's workspace to fill out the forms online.
Grants.gov allows you to assign roles and privileges to users in your organization. These roles allow users to perform certain tasks and see sensitive content, such as a budget, in your grant application. If your Grants.gov account has the same email address as the electronic business point of contact in SAM.gov, Grants.gov will automatically assign you the role of expanded AOR. With the expanded AOR role, you will be able to assign roles to your organization's registered users.
Make sure that at least one person in your organization has a role that allows them to create a workspace for your grant application, such as expanded AOR (authorized organization representative), standard AOR, and workspace manager. For more information about assigning roles, visit Manage Roles for Applicant in the Grants.gov Online Help.
Workspaces provide flexibility for submitting application forms in a way that fits your organization. Workspaces allow you to control access to all or some of your draft application forms. Anyone who has an expanded AOR (authorized organization representative), standard AOR, or workspace manager profile can create a workspace for your organization's grant application.
There are three approaches to using a workspace. Grants.gov provides step-by-step guides (with training videos) for each approach:
Basic: In this approach, you can fill out grant application forms online, or you can download the forms as PDFs and work on them offline. You can also email downloaded forms to others. Afterwards, you will upload completed forms to your workspace. Our Step-by-Step: Basic Approach guide will get you up and running fast. You can always move to the intermediate and advanced approaches later, if the need arises.
Intermediate: In this approach, access to the workspace and to individual online or offline forms is controlled by a workspace owner. Use the Step-by-Step: Intermediate Approach guide if your organization is more complex, for example, if the person responsible for leading the grant application effort is not the person who will be clicking the Sign and Submit button when the application is completed.
Advanced: In this approach, the workspace owner provides access to the grant application forms to team members who may not have your UEI (required to create an organization applicant profile). The Step-by-Step: Advanced Approach guide includes videos and help links about limiting access to budget forms, creating subforms, and reusing previously completed grant application forms.