How we check listings
Every listing comes from a funder’s own website or an official grant list, and passes the same fixed checks before it’s published. No one reviews each listing by hand, so this page says exactly what is checked.
Where listings come from
Funders’ own websites (community foundations and other grantmakers), state agency websites, official state and agency grant lists in 11 states, and Grants.gov for federal grants.
Many small private foundations have no website. For those that tell the IRS they accept applications, their funder page shows how to apply as they reported it on their latest return (Form 990-PF): what to send, deadlines and limits on who can apply. That’s the foundation’s own answer for that year, not a listing we’ve checked against an open round, and the page says so.
How a source is trusted
We check sources, not each listing. A funder’s website is used only once it’s confirmed as theirs, in one of three ways:
- A person on our team confirms it.
- The site shows the funder’s IRS registration number, and its web address matches the funder’s name.
- It’s the website the funder gives on its own IRS return, or the one its state’s association of community foundations lists for it, and the site’s homepage names the funder. Each week a person checks a random sample of listings published this way, and if more than one site in the sample turns out to be wrong, this way switches off.
A person approves each state agency website and each state grant list before we read it.
The checks on each listing
A listing read from a website must name the program on the page, have a deadline that hasn’t passed (or say applications are taken year-round), show a way to apply, and offer money. Official lists are read by fixed rules, and anything they can’t place is held back, never guessed.
Some state programs take applications in rounds. Between rounds we list them as between rounds, until the next round is posted. Federal grants that are announced but not yet open are marked as forecasts.
How often we check again
Grants.gov and the state lists are read every day, and state agency pages every week. Funder websites are read again in turn, so some go longer between checks: 1,338 of 1,444 open grants were checked in the past week. Every card shows the date of its last check and warns when that was more than six weeks ago. Grants close after their deadline day.
What’s here today
Open grants for organizations, counted just now.
- Local and regional
- 703 grants for a county, city or region, in 268 counties across 37 states.
- State
- 344 grants from 18 states (most in CA 148, IL 59, MA 29). Another 140 state programs are between rounds.
- Nationwide
- 270 grants open across the country, all federal, from Grants.gov.
Coverage is uneven: of the 50 states and DC, 33 have no state-level listings yet and 14 no local ones. We add sources state by state.
Report a problem
See something wrong with a listing? Open the grant’s page and use Report an issue or Suggest a correction, under “Something wrong?”. A person on our team reads every report. You don’t need an account.