GrantTrove and Skip, side by side
How GrantTrove and Skip differ on price, coverage and what each one shows about a record. Every Skip figure was checked on 2026-09-07.
What Skip is genuinely good at
This section is not a formality. Skip is a real product with real advantages, and a reader deciding between the two is better served by knowing them than by a page that pretends they do not exist.
- It funds people as well as listing funding: its own $1,000 Instant Grants and $10,000 Skip Grants are real money it awards, which nobody else in this registry does.
- The free tier states access to all public grants and funding rather than gating listings behind a subscription.
- Grant discovery sits inside a toolkit a small business owner is using anyway, which is a lower-friction place to find funding than a database you have to remember to open.
- A 14-day full-access refund is stated on the pricing page.
Where GrantTrove is different
Where the two products actually diverge, point by point.
- Every record shows when it was last checked, against which source domain, and by which method.
- Programme pool and per-award ceiling are separate fields that are never shown under one label.
- Core fields — amounts, deadlines, eligibility, source link, verification stamp — are free without an account, permanently.
- A field the source did not state reads Not stated rather than being filled with a plausible value.
And the honest cost of that. Coverage is early. The data sources page publishes exactly which feeds are connected and which are not. If your search depends on breadth today rather than on traceability, Skip has more records than we do and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
Price
What each side charges, and what the free tier holds back.
GrantTrove pricing checked 2026-09-02 against our own pricing page.
Skip pricing checked 2026-09-07 against Skip’s own pricing page.
Field by field
Field by field, with the ones neither side publishes marked as such.
| Field | GrantTrove | Skip |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A grant database where every field is traceable to one official page and carries the date we last confirmed it. | An AI business toolkit for small business owners with grant discovery inside it, which also runs grant programmes of its own. |
| Cheapest paid entry | $19/mo · read from the price config at render | $0 · checked 2026-09-07 |
| Readable without paying | Every field of every record, permanently | Not measured |
| Coverage the product publishes | Records linked 1,775 · Verified inside the freshness window 1,190 of 1,190 | Grant winners claimed 1,000+ · Business listings claimed 100,000+ · Entrepreneurs claimed 1M+ |
| Shows when a record was last checked | Yes — date, source domain and method on every record | Not measured |
| Separates programme pool from award ceiling | Yes, always two fields under two labels | Not measured |
| What an empty field shows | Not stated, Not confirmed or Not linked yet — three different sentences | Not measured |
| Eligibility restrictions on who may subscribe | None stated | None stated |
“Not measured” means we have not audited that property of Skip and will not guess at it. Every Skip figure above comes from a page Skip publishes about itself, checked 2026-09-07.
What this page does not claim
What this page does not claim, and how it was written.
We do not publish a record count of our own counting for another product, a freshness figure we have not sampled, or an accuracy rate for anyone. Doing so would require an audit with a stated method and a date, and we have not run one. Where a comparison would need such a number, the row above reads Not measured.
Choose Skip if you are a small business owner who wants funding discovery inside the tools you already use, and note that Skip awards grants of its own, which no database can match. Choose GrantTrove if you are a nonprofit, a school district, a tribal government or a county, or if what you need from a record is a source link and a verification date rather than a workflow.