Whether you’re new to grants or ready to expand your pipeline, we help you find the funders that actually match your mission.
We search professional-grade funder databases including Candid's Foundation Directory and related tools to identify foundations that fund your mission area, geography, and population.
Every private foundation files an annual 990-PF that lists every grant they made that year — recipient name, location, amount, and purpose. We analyze these filings to understand what each funder actually funds, not just what their guidelines say. This distinction matters enormously. Foundations sometimes say they fund a broad area but in practice concentrate giving on a narrow slice of it.
We review each potential funder's website, published guidelines, current priority areas, and most recent annual report to understand their current focus and any recent shifts in giving priorities.
Many corporations with regional presence — especially in Northeast Ohio — have active philanthropic programs separate from their foundation giving. We research these programs and evaluate their alignment with your work.
Depending on your mission area and geographic focus, there may be relevant state or federal funding streams distributed through local or regional intermediaries. We identify these where they apply.
Where relevant, we note any existing connections between your organization (board, leadership, partners) and potential funders — because relationship-based applications are consistently more successful than cold submissions.
who need a roadmap of where to start. Instead of spending weeks in databases learning the landscape, you receive a curated starting point built by professionals who know what they are looking at.
and suspect they may be targeting the wrong funders. FunderMatch diagnoses your funder alignment and redirects your energy toward opportunities with real potential.
If you have relied on the same small group of funders for years, FunderMatch identifies new opportunities you have not yet pursued — including funders that are actively looking for organizations like yours.
If you are launching a new program or expanding to serve a new population or geography, your existing funder relationships may not follow. FunderMatch helps you identify who funds the new direction.
seeking funders who actively prioritize equity-focused grantmaking. We specifically identify funders with equity commitments and track records of funding organizations led by and serving communities of color.
We start with a focused conversation to understand your mission, current programs, target population, geographic service area, organizational stage, and funding goals. The more specific you can be, the more targeted the research.
Our team conducts the full research process across all relevant databases and sources. We analyze, filter, and evaluate dozens of potential funders to identify those with the strongest genuine alignment with your organization.
We write the complete first draft of the proposal and share it with your team for review. For most proposals, this takes 5–10 business days from kickoff.
We walk through the report together, answer your questions, and discuss how to prioritize and sequence your outreach and applications.
You leave the strategy call with a clear plan. We are available for follow-up questions via email for two weeks after the call.
Consider what it actually costs to submit a grant proposal that was never going to succeed:
A typical grant proposal takes 8–20 hours to research, write, compile, and submit. At even a modest value of $25/hour for staff or volunteer time, that is $200–$500 per proposal.
A mid-size nonprofit submitting 10–15 proposals per year and winning only 1–2 of them is not just experiencing low success — they are burning thousands of dollars in time on proposals that had no real chance.
FunderMatch pays for itself many times over by redirecting that time and energy toward funders who are genuinely likely to say yes.
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