Find Grants Your Nonprofit Is Eligible For
Answer 5 short questions. See up to 10 live, matching federal and state grant opportunities in seconds - straight from Grants.gov, SAM.gov, USASpending, and more. No account needed.
What makes this different
Most grant finders show stale data or require signup before the first result. Ours runs live against federal and state databases and returns in milliseconds.
Check eligibility - free
5 questions. No email required. Results appear inline below the form.
What you see in your results
Every match includes the fields to decide whether to apply.
- 1Grant title and funding agency
The official title and the federal or state agency that administers the opportunity. Click through to the full posting on Grants.gov or the agency's website.
- 2Award ceiling and close date
The maximum award amount (when published) and the application close date. Close dates scale down but remain readable on mobile.
- 3Direct application URL
One click to the canonical grant posting where you verify requirements and submit. We do not intermediate the application itself.
- 4Data freshness timestamp
Below the grid, a Data as of date shows the most recent refresh across the sources that produced your matches.
Free tool vs. the full platform
Here's what you get free, and what a TappHQ account adds.
Where grant eligibility screening goes wrong
Most failed grant searches fail before anyone writes a word. Grants.gov alone lists tens of thousands of opportunities, and the ones a small nonprofit can apply for are hidden inside them. Screening is the step that separates the two, and it goes wrong in the same handful of ways.
The usual failure modes
- Searching by topic instead of by applicant. A keyword search finds programs about your cause. The eligible-applicants line is what decides whether you can apply, and it is written in free text that varies by agency: 501(c)(3) organizations, units of local government, institutions of higher education, tribal organizations. Screening starts there, not with the title.
- Ignoring geography. State-administered programs are open to organizations in that state. A national keyword search surfaces them anyway, and an afternoon goes into a program you were not eligible for.
- Mismatching the award to your capacity. An award ceiling in the millions is a signal about the expected scale of the project and the reporting behind it. An organization with a budget under $100,000 rarely wins it, and an organization at $5M rarely benefits from a $10,000 award.
- Trusting a close date. Federal close dates get extended, moved up, and pulled. A deadline read a week ago is a rumor by the time an application is underway.
- Treating a match as a determination. A screening tool, including this one, applies coarse filters. It produces a shortlist, not an eligibility ruling. The official posting is the only authority.
How this checker screens
It reads open federal and state opportunities whose close date is still ahead, filters by state and cause area, then checks the award ceiling against your budget range and your organization type against the eligible-applicants text. Where a posting does not name its eligible applicants, the checker keeps it rather than guessing you out. Results show the ten nearest deadlines with a Data as of date beneath them. Read the posting before investing time in an application, and if the close date is within a few days, verify it on the official page first.
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