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Grant Explorer is the most comprehensive source of online grant information available. Whether you're a grantmaker looking to analyze the funding of current and potential grant recipients or a grant seeker looking for potential sources of support, Grant Explorer can provide you with the tools you need to make the most informed decisions possible.
If you want to review historical grant activity, evaluate
funding for similar organizations, or benchmark grant giving, Grant Explorer
provides several ways for you to accomplish these tasks. Search for funders,
grantees, or specific people in the philanthropic community
using a wide variety of criteria.
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Grant Explorer's information is dynamic! We update the Grant Explorer database weekly to provide you with the most up-to-date grant information.
Grant Explorer is versatile. Whether you're looking for data on private foundations that give grants or public charities that receive them, Grant Explorer allows you to navigate seamlessly between funder and grantee organizations. Grant Explorer offers easy, flexible, and affordable search options.
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The Technology Behind Guidestar GrantExplorer
Grant Explorer is allows you to access information on 4.13 million grants made by more than 56,883 of the nation's largest foundations. It is updated with over 8,000 listings weekly. Grant seekers can search on potential funders, review historical grant activity, and evaluate past funding for similar organizations. Grant Explorer data is digitized from the IRS Forms 990-PF (the tax form that all private foundations are required to file) provided directly to GuideStar by the IRS. Grant Explorer includes data from private foundations that match any of the following criteria:
- Grant activity of more than $50,000; contributes to preselected organizations
- Grant activity of more than $10,000; accepts grant applications
- Total assets of $5 million and greater
- Only grants of $5,000 and greater given by these organizations are part of the Grant Explorer database
- Guidestar GrantExplorer DataBase Statistics
- More than 4.13 million grants
- Information on grants of $5,000 and higher
- Continuously updated resource, with more than 8,000 new grants per week
There will be a statistical breakdown coming shortly.
Frequently Asked Questions.
- What types of searches can I conduct?
- What kind of information can I find when I research a funder?
- What kind of information can I find when I research a grantee?
- If you are having trouble determining search criteria for a look up in Grant Explorer?
