Find the foundations that actually fund organizations like yours.
Grant research tools cost $150–200 a month, which prices out the organizations that need them most. Funderscope is free, and built from the same public IRS filings the expensive tools use.
What makes this different
We tell you who actually accepts applications. Nearly four out of five private foundations state on their tax return that they only fund organizations they pick themselves. Most grant lists ignore this, so nonprofits waste months applying to funders that were never going to read it. We flag it on every funder — and we have built a full profile for every foundation that does accept requests.
We show repeat-funding rates. A typical foundation funds two thirds of the same organizations again the next year, and we measure that per cause and state rather than asserting it. It tells you how settled a funder's list of grantees is, not whether a new applicant will be funded.
Start from your own organization
Give us your EIN and we will find the organizations that share funders with yours, then the funders those organizations have in common. It works from grants already filed against your EIN, so it has more to say about an organization that has received one, and it says plainly when it has nothing. Look up your organization.
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We email you funders that gave to organizations in your state and cause, up to five at a time each week and never the same one twice, from their own IRS filings. Free. The weekly email has not started yet.
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Foundation profiles
We have built a full profile for 8,915 foundations that accept unsolicited requests — every organization each one funded, what it typically gives, how much of its list repeats year to year, and what it said the money was for. Browse them by state.
And the funders other lists leave out
Community foundations, United Ways, hospital and university foundations and other charities that regrant do not file Form 990-PF, so they are missing from most funder lists entirely. They moved more money than the private foundations did. Their grantee lists also change more: they keep 57% of their grantees from one year to the next, against a private foundation's 67%. That is turnover among organizations they already fund, not a sign that any one of them takes applications. Browse 7,731 grantmaking charities.
Browse by cause and state
More states and causes are being added as we verify the data behind them. We only publish a page when there is enough filing data to make it genuinely useful.