Alternatives to The Grant Portal

What The Grant Portal is

A private-foundation directory built on 990-PF filings, with a grant-writer directory alongside it.

Its published figures, checked 2026-08-29: private foundations 133,326. Pricing runs subscription Not published, grant alert emails $0. Every one of those numbers comes from a page The Grant Portal publishes about itself, not from a measurement of ours.

It is worth being direct about what it does well: The private-foundation corpus is drawn from 990-PF filings, the same public record the deepest funder datasets are built on.

If you need eligibility at a glance

This is the part worth paying for anywhere. Applicant type, geography, matching requirement and disbursement method are stored as fields here, so a match tells you which clauses agreed with your answers rather than returning a score you cannot audit.

A field the source did not state reads Not stated, and a field the source states that we have not connected reads Not linked yet. Those are different admissions and we keep them apart.

If you need to know how current it is

Every record here shows the date it was last confirmed against its source page, the domain it was checked against, and whether the check was automated or a human review. There is no confidence percentage anywhere on this site, because a record was either checked on a date or it was not.

Our crawl history is published in full on the data sources page, including the feeds we have not run yet. That page is uncomfortable to publish and it is the point.

When to stay with The Grant Portal

If breadth today is what your search needs, The Grant Portal has more records than we do and we are not going to argue otherwise. Our catalogue is early, and the data sources page says exactly how early rather than leaving you to find out.

If you need to file an application, use the grantmaker’s own system. We host no application forms and sit between nobody and a submission deadline.