Charity Funding Finder Grants Directory - UK and Global Fund Search

Funding Finder free grants directory connects charities & non profits to more charitable funders than any other charity funding database - UK & globally

Charity Funding Finder Grants Directory - UK and Global Fund Search

The free Funding Finder charity grants directory enables you to search for more charitable funds than any other grants database.  It has its own charity funders but it also uses its 100s of Funding Finder links to connect you to online charity funding lists and other free charitable grants directories in the UK and globally.  Updated every week, you'll find the latest charity grant funding using the Recent Additions search. Or use the Company Donations Finder directory to find companies that make donations, plus lots more - quick, simple and very effective.

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Our new upgrade is now live. This includes new search categories, which are highlighted in bold in the tables below. 

Search More Charity Funding Than Any Other Grants Directory

Funding Finder doesn't just hold its own charitable grants, its Funding Finder links connect you to a global network of 400+ other online charity funding lists and grant directories, giving you click through to 100k grant funders.  And because many of the online funding lists have been created by fundraising professionals, you don't have to create your own, so it saves you time too.  Watch the 3 min Demo Video to find out how it will help you secure more funding.

Making Searching for Charitable Grants Simpler

Most of us aren't fundraising professionals, almost everyone has limited time, some find using technology challenging and, for others, English is a second language.  Charity Excellence Funding Finder grants directory was designed specifically to be very quick and simple to use.  All you need to do is watch the 3 min Demo Video and it also has links to Charity Excellence fundraising guides and videos to help you make your charitable grant funding bid applications successful.

Charity Funding Finder - How to Maximise Your Charitable Grants Search

The first step is to set the geographical parameters you want.  The system can search Internationally, UK Wide, for each UK country, major cities and, for England, counties.  Select all the geographical settings relevant to your charity to maximise your charitable grants search.  You can also search for other locations in the Key Word search box.  However, there are 1000 plus towns in the UK, so it's worth trying but is a bit of a lucky dip.

Charity Funding Finder - Charitable Grants Search for Groups

These are the search categories from the People & Groups pull down menu. The more you select, the more grants Funding Finder will display.

Animals Food Small Charities
BAME Homeless Social Enterprise (CICs)
Bid Writers Infrastructure Charities Start Ups
Community Groups Less Popular Causes Veterans
Disability LGBTQI+ Women
Faith Young People

Community groups is for unregistered charities, such as clubs and PTAs.  Less Popular Causes is for those who do great work but whose cause or beneficiaries aren't attractive to the more mainstream funders, or who are a bit too 'shouty' for their sensibilities.

Charitable Grant Funding For Small Charity & Community Groups

Many small charities and community groups struggle to find charitable grant funding.  As I load new records, I assess each grant funder and if it only funds or prioritises small charities and community groups, or is a good fund for them to apply to, it is allocated to the Small Charities search category.

However, community groups tell me they often struggle because many funders require a group to be a registered charity.  Consequently, there is a sub group of Small Charities called Community Groups, which is the same, except it excludes funders who require you to be a registered charity.   The Start Ups search category is for grant makers who will support newly formed groups and pilot projects.  The Infrastructure search category is for the 100s of small infrastructure charities who often really struggle to secure funding.

Charity Funding Finder - Charitable Grants Search for Types of Funding

These are the search categories from the Sector & Type pull down menu. The more you select, the more grants Funding Finder will display.

Arts & Heritage Funding Finder Multi Year Funding
Buildings & Equipment General Funding Research
Core Funding Health Social Welfare & Poverty
Education Humanitarian Sport
Environment Justice Tech

Funding Finder links connect you to other free  grants directories and online funding lists.  There are 400+, giving you click through to 100,000+ grant makers globally.

Charity Funding Finder - Refining Your Charitable Grant Search

You can filter the charity grant funding displayed by selecting grant amount  and also be using the Any or All Categories pull down menu.  The system default is 'Any'.  That is, if you select more than one of the options above, the system will display charity funding from grant makers that meet any of the criteria you have chosen.  Howeve3r, if you use the pull down menu to choose 'All', the system will only display charity funding from grant makers that meet all of the criteria you have chosen.  Your search will return less charitable grants but these will be a better fit for what you are looking for.

Niche Charity Funding Searches

You can use the Key Word search box to find very local charitable grants and more niche types of charity funding.

How to Find Funding Bid Writers

There is a Bid Writer category that allows you to search for funding bid writers.  You can find out more about it here.

100+ Charitable Grant Funding Lists

To help you even more, there are 60+ charitable trust and foundation grant funding lists that can be downloaded from the system's fundraising questionnaire.  These are listed in the Funding List Index.

Completing the fundraising questionnaire will enable you to assess every aspect of your fundraising and be connected to a huge range of resources.  The grant funding lists can be downloaded from the assessment question on finding new funders.  It Has FUNDER LISTS typed in block capitals in the question, so you can't mis it.

Charitable Grant Funding & Free Help For Charities

A registered charity ourselves, we provide 8 online health checks, the huge information hub, Quality Mark and 2 other directories.

  • Help Finder – find advice and pro bono support, including free fundraising support and companies that donate to charities and provide free product donations.
  • Data Finder - finds data for funding bids, fundraising research, impact reporting, planning and campaigning.

Quick, simple and very effective. Nearly half our ratings are 10/10.

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Make Sure You Stay Safe Online

We would never knowingly link to any website that contains offensive, illegal or suspect information, or potentially scam links and we carry out checks as best we can.  However, our system links charities not only to help but also websites with online lists of links and other databases and a volunteer run charity, can't possibly check and validate everything.  Consequently, in using our system you accept that we cannot take any responsibility for 3rd party content or links and you agree that you will carry out all reasonable checks to keep yourself safe.  Here's our guide to staying safe online.

In the event you ever come across something that concerns you, please inform us immediately - ian@charityexcellence.co.uk.

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