GrantTrove and The Grant Portal, side by side
How GrantTrove and The Grant Portal differ on price, coverage and what each one shows about a record. Every The Grant Portal figure was checked on 2026-08-29.
What The Grant Portal is genuinely good at
This section is not a formality. The Grant Portal 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.
- The private-foundation corpus is drawn from 990-PF filings, the same public record the deepest funder datasets are built on.
- A grant-writer directory sits alongside the listings, so an organisation that finds a match can also find someone to write it.
- Grant alert emails are free and require no subscription.
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, The Grant Portal 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.
The Grant Portal pricing checked 2026-08-29 against The Grant Portal’s own pricing page.
Field by field
Field by field, with the ones neither side publishes marked as such.
| Field | GrantTrove | The Grant Portal |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A grant database where every field is traceable to one official page and carries the date we last confirmed it. | A private-foundation directory built on 990-PF filings, with a grant-writer directory alongside it. |
| Cheapest paid entry | $19/mo · read from the price config at render | Not published · checked 2026-08-29 |
| 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 | Private foundations 133,326 |
| 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 The Grant Portal and will not guess at it. Every The Grant Portal figure above comes from a page The Grant Portal publishes about itself, checked 2026-08-29.
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 The Grant Portal if what it publishes about its own coverage is what your search needs today. Choose GrantTrove if you need to know when each field was last confirmed, against which source, and to see the programme pool and the per-award ceiling as two separate numbers.