BIG Online America
This is a fee only online service. You can search the top 20,000 US foundations, top 500 US corporations and government funding. Search capabilities are advanced and geographic location of the gifts is available. With your subscription you also receive some proposal writing tools.
(Added: 07.25.2008)
Capacity Building Database (Human Interaction Research Institute)
This database contains descriptions of capacity-building programs being carried out by U.S. foundations. You can search by various criteria and look at program profiles.
(Added: 07.25.2008)
Deadlines:Chronicle of Philanthropy
The Chronicle of Philanthropy publishes grant deadlines in its newspaper and offers them free online. Search by subject or browse the entire list.
(Added: 07.25.2008)
Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers
Understanding the giving climate in your region, who the influential grantmakers are and what they care about is important to the grants professional. This website is a useful resource, especially if your nonprofit is national in scope.
(Added: 07.30.2008)
Foundation Center Online
This vendor primarily offers a searchable database of funders for fee, but there are many free resources as well. You can look up a foundation and view IRS Form 990 filings for free, they have free e-newsletters including an RFP Bulletin and provide free online tutorials for their products. The funder search is exact so if you want the Pew Charitable Trusts and type "Pew Trusts" you will not get a search result. Just type "Pew" and you get three search results including the Pew Charitable Trusts. The fee services allow you to search for funders based on various criteria including funding category, geographic location, and type of gift. Check the site to see if there is a regional Foundation Center in your area.
(Added: 07.30.2008)
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Foundation Search
There is no free lunch with this vendor, but the offerings are impressive. The subscription has a versatile search that can look through full-text IRS Form 990s as well as its standard database fields. While there is no specific geographic giving criteria to search on, the city and state of grantees, where available, has been indexed so that you can search for foundations that have made a gift within a city and/or state. Grants made can be queried on and exported to a spreadsheet. It is a very dynamic and comprehensive product.
(Added: 12.01.2008)
Funding Advantage Newsletter
Foundation and Corporate Funding Advantage is primarily a paper newsletter that collects information about funders into relevant topics. If you do a lot of corporate and foundation fundraising, you may consider giving this newsletter or one like it a test run.
(Added: 07.30.2008)
Funding Sources:The Grantsmanship Center Inc.
This site allows you to search for top funders, corporate giving programs and government sites by clicking on a state on a U.S. map. These lists are free.
(Added: 07.30.2008)
Fundsnet Online Services
While this list of funding sources by category is not comprehensive or sortable, it is a free online source. Not sure how frequently it is updated.
(Added: 07.30.2008)
GEO:Grantmakers for Effective Organizations
This is an association with over 1,000 grant-making members who are all interested in promoting (and funding) nonprofit effectiveness. The buzzword is capacity and they have a member list you can review.
(Added: 07.25.2008)
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Grants.gov
This is the government website to find and apply for U.S. Federal grants and is managed by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
(Added: 07.30.2008)
GrantStation
This is a vendor for searching private grantmakers, federal grant announcements, and Canadian grantmakers. Once you pay for membership they also offer grantwriting tools, newsletter, etc. I have heard very little about this vendor.
(Added: 07.25.2008)
Guidestar
FREE registration is required for access to search for operating nonprofits as well as funders and view their recent IRS Form 990s. There are also an e-newsletters and quite a few helpful articles. Fee services include the ability to search for names (i.e., staff, officers, and directors), funders based on criteria, and IRS Form 990s based on various criteria.
(Added: 07.25.2008)
Imagine Canada
This is a directory of grantmakers in Canada as well as many other resources including an extensive library of downloadable literature. Some is free and some is fee.
(Added: 07.30.2008)
NOZA Form 990PF Searchable Database
NOZA offers a fee-based searchable database for gifts and has added this FREE searchable database of private foundation tax returns.
(Added: 07.30.2008)
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PND:Philanthropy News Digest by the Foundation Center
This FREE service of the Foundation Center offers new RFP (request for proposal) posts. You can sign up for the free e-newsletter or visit this webpage. The webpage is available for viewing before the e-newsletter reaches your inbox.
(Added: 07.25.2008)
ProposalCafe
This is a wonderful FREE site with information, resources and links.
(Added: 07.30.2008)
School Grants
This website is devoted to helping schools find and get grants.
(Added: 07.30.2008)
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