From 2011 to 2020, just 7.1% of DWSRF-eligible systems — 4,721 of 66,552 — received assistance. The barrier is rarely the award. It is that nobody has time to find the program and file for it. (Environmental Policy Innovation Center, 2021 — pre-infrastructure-law.)
Put in your PWSID. We match your size, type, state, and compliance record against every major federal and state program.
Start free. Your first two matches are complete and yours to act on.
See which programs fit your system — with the reasoning behind each match.
Every match unlocked, and we keep looking after you stop.
Turn a match into a submitted application — as many as you want.
Illustrative examples built from real program rules — not customer stories.
Surfaces: infrastructure-law lead funds, DWSRF disadvantaged-community forgiveness, free set-aside assistance to write the application.
Why it matters: the identification work itself is fundable — most systems assume only replacement counts.
Surfaces: DWSRF emerging-contaminant funds, EPA money reserved for small or disadvantaged systems, USDA Water & Waste Disposal.
Why it matters: planning and pilot costs are usually eligible too, and those come first.
Surfaces: USDA predevelopment planning grants, which exist to break exactly this deadlock, plus free RCAP and circuit-rider help.
Why it matters: the planning grant is the cheapest entry into the funding pipeline, and small systems routinely don’t know it exists.
No. Free directories are keyword search — you still read every program and work out whether a system your size in your state qualifies. Orevant starts from your PWSID: your population, type, source water, state, and compliance findings decide what shows up and in what order.
No, and be skeptical of anyone who does. Agencies make award decisions. What we do is make sure the reason you didn’t get money is never that nobody told you it existed. Every match says “likely eligible — confirm with the agency.”
That’s who it’s built for. The free match includes the free-assistance programs — RCAP, circuit riders, state set-aside help — that will help you apply at no cost.
13 standing programs, each reviewed against its agency source (catalog grants-2026.08, last reviewed Aug 18, 2026). Open federal opportunities come from a live Grants.gov feed refreshed daily.
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