Know the funder. Before you write a word.
You can find grant listings anywhere. What you can't find is which funders actually fund work like yours, how their giving moves, and which peers they've already backed. That's funding intelligence, not another grant database.
Built for every kind of builder.
Whether you’re running a nonprofit, launching a startup, making art, or finishing a degree, the funding exists. We help you find it.
Know who funds orgs like yours before you write a word.
Stop shotgunning applications. Funding Findr gives you the funder intelligence (990 data, peer recipients, cycle timing) to build a strategic prospect list and know which funders are worth cultivating.
Non-dilutive funding for builders who don’t want to give up equity.
Grants, accelerators, and fellowships exist for startups at every stage, from pre-revenue through Series A. Find the ones you actually qualify for, without the noise.
Fellowships and grants for the work only you can make.
Individual artist grants, residencies, and fellowships are chronically hard to find and fast to close. Funding Findr tracks them all and tells you which ones fit your practice, medium, and geography.
Scholarships and fellowships that actually fit your field.
Generic scholarship search engines surface the same 50 listings everyone applies for. Funding Findr includes field-specific fellowships, research grants, and residencies, verified and filterable by degree level, discipline, and identity.
Not just the grant.
The funder behind it.
Funding Findr is funding intelligence applied in context. Give it your mission and it surfaces the funders who already back work like yours, how their giving moves, and the peer recipients they've been quietly funding for years.
Backwards search: who funds orgs like mine?
Instead of keyword hunting, tell us your mission. We surface funders who have historically funded organizations with your budget, focus, and geography.
Funder intelligence from 990s & peer recipients
See who else a funder has supported, at what size, and how often they renew. Know if this is a one-time grant or a long-term relationship worth cultivating.
Cycle timing so you never miss a window
Track historical grant cycles and get ahead of deadlines. Know when to start relationships, not just when applications open.
Prospect pipeline and funder notes
Save funders, track application status, and keep notes on every relationship. A lightweight CRM built into the platform.
Three things that change how you develop.
Verified grants
Every opportunity hand-reviewed. Every link checked. Filter by amount, geography, identity, sector, and deadline. No dead links, ever.
Table stakesFunder profiles
990-powered data showing who a funder has supported, how much, how often, and how their giving is moving. Know if you're a fit before you spend 40 hours writing.
The sourcePeer intelligence
Peer matching by NTEE, revenue, and sector. Funder gap analysis shows which funders your peers access that you don't, before you write a single proposal.
The moat
Candid-quality intelligence.
Not the Candid price tag.
Candid / Foundation Directory charges $3,499–$4,999/year. GrantWatch has 83% inactive listings and a non-refundable policy. Funding Findr gives you more, for less.
| What matters to a development director | Candid / FDO $3,499–$4,999/yr |
GrantWatch $449/yr |
Funding Findr From $24/mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Every grant link is active & verified | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| 990-based funder intelligence | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Peer recipient data (who else they funded) | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Grant cycle timing & deadline alerts | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Every listing verified before publishing | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Prospect pipeline / funder notes | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Accessible to teams under $2M budget | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Peer gap analysis (funders your peers access that you don't) | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
Funding intelligence is locked behind a price gate,
or scattered across Google, 990 lookups, and peer rumor.
I spent three hours going through Foundation Directory results, clicked every link, and half of them were either expired or the funder had changed focus completely.
Development Director, Community Arts NonprofitI knew a grant existed for orgs like ours. I'd seen a peer org win it. But figuring out who funded them, at what size, whether we'd be a fit, that was all rumor.
Executive Director, Workforce Development OrgCandid is great if you have $5K and an entire grants team. For a one-person development shop, it's overkill and way too expensive.
Development Manager, Environmental NonprofitBy the time we found a grant we qualified for, read the LOI requirements, and pulled our materials together, the deadline was two weeks away.
Grants Manager, Health Services Orgof listings on GrantWatch are inactive: expired deadlines, closed programs, or defunct organizations. Development directors are spending real time chasing dead ends.
The tool Mimi built when
the system said “no.”
When Mimi tried to build a mental health startup without VC backing, she hit the same wall every undercapitalized founder hits: the database tools built for development professionals cost thousands a year, and everything else was a mess of dead links and stale data.
So she built Funding Findr: personally curated, human-verified, and designed to work like an advisor who actually knows your org, not just a search box.
Don’t take our word for it.
“I found three grants I actually qualified for in my first ten minutes. One of them was for $50,000 and I never would have found it on my own. The funder wasn’t even on our radar.”Development Director at a Community Arts Nonprofit
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