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. Foundations are creatures of habit — a typical one funds two thirds of the same organizations again the next year. That is what makes historical filings genuinely predictive, and we measure it per cause and state rather than asserting it.

Foundation profiles

We have built a full profile for 8,523 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, and we measured something that makes them the better prospect for a newcomer: they keep 57% of their grantees from one year to the next against a foundation's 67%, so far more of their list is genuinely in play. Browse 7,211 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.