Alive, not stale
We screen out foundations that have gone quiet. Every prospect is tied to a recent public filing showing active giving.
Built by fundraisers, for fundraisers
We find the foundation funders you don't already know
Custom foundation prospect briefs built from 1.87 million IRS Form 990-PF grant records. We surface currently active funders that already give to organizations like yours.
The part nobody tells you
Everyone applies to the same five names.
You know the ones. The big national foundations whose names you can recite from memory. So can every other ED in your field. That is the problem.
Meanwhile.
A private foundation two counties over gave $40,000 last year to a literacy nonprofit your size. It has no website. It has never taken a cold call. The only place it exists, in public, is one PDF.
Form 990-PF, filed with the IRS, public record, read by almost no one.
There are about 120,000 private foundations in the country. Maybe 40 of them are a real fit for what you do, where you do it, at the scale you do it.
The 990-PF filings that would tell you which 40 add up to 1.87 million grant records. That is the haystack, and almost nobody reads it, because nobody has the hours.
The big databases charge a yearly subscription for a login to that haystack, and you still have to do the reading. This tool does the reading for you, free.
Our system reads it for you and surfaces genuinely new, underrated prospects: a short list of foundations that already fund organizations like yours, each with the public 990-PF page it came from so you can check the work. Not the five names everyone applies to. The ones you would never have found on your own.
See a sample briefWhy this is different
Most tools give you a database. We give you a shortlist.
Backed by real grants
Every prospect is a funder that actually gave to an organization like yours, shown with the recipient, the amount, and the year.
No subscription traps
No account, no subscription, no seat fees, and no cost. You get your brief and you are done.
What you get
Your full brief, free.
A custom foundation prospect brief, built from your own public 990 filings and shown instantly. We can email you a copy too. No account, no subscription.
- Your full ranked shortlist of active funders
- Fit rationale and typical grant range on every entry
- Application path for each funder
- Real peer grants: who each funder gave to, how much, and when
- IRS 990-PF provenance on every line
- Reviewed by a person before it's sent
Why you can trust the brief
Sourced, honest, and checkable.
One public source
Every match comes from IRS Form 990-PF filings, the federal returns private foundations file each year.
Provenance on every line
Each funder lists the filing it came from, so you, or your board, can verify the claim before you write a word.
Alive, not stale
We screen out foundations that have gone quiet, so the brief is funders giving now, not names from a decade-old list.
Backed by real grants
Each funder is one that actually gave to an organization like yours, shown with the recipient, the amount, and the year, so the fit isn't a guess.
Source: IRS Form 990-PF public filings.
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Get your free briefFree · sourced from IRS Form 990-PF.