We are not familiar with any legitimate grants to help start businesses.  The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) does NOT provide grants for starting and expanding a business. Government grants are funded by your tax dollars and, therefore, require very stringent compliance and reporting measures to ensure that the money is well spent. As you can imagine, grants are not given away indiscriminately.  The grant authority varies widely among agencies. The SBA has the authority to make grants available to non-profit and educational organizations in many of its consulting and training programs but does not have the authority to make grants available to small businesses directly. The announcements for the consulting and training grants will appear on grants.gov.