Identifying Grant Opportunities

I've been dedicating time to collecting grant opportunities for impact-driven companies. I couldn't resist using AI tools to dive deep into the data and analyze where the money is actually flowing... The most surprising finding hit me immediately: -Innovation and Development grants (35% and 33% respectively) vastly outnumber traditional "aid" categories. -Out of 226 grants analyzed (totaling $402M), For-profit organizations now have access to 84% of opportunities. But here's where it gets really interesting for our regions: -🌎 LATIN AMERICA (52 opportunities, 23% of total) The sweet spot? Digital Innovation dominates the landscape. If you're building fintech, edtech, or cleantech solutions in LATAM, you're sitting in the hottest sector for grant funding. -🌍 AFRICA (53 opportunities, 23.5% of total) Climate Action and Global Health lead the charge. The funding priorities reflect urgent continental needs, but there's a strategic opportunity for organizations that can bridge sectors. Think climate-health nexus or education-climate solutions. -The game-changer insight? Few grants explicitly require impact measurement, yet our analysis shows the highest-value grants tend to demand it. This is your competitive advantage: while most organizations scramble to meet basic legal requirements (35% require legal registration, 29% years of operation), investing in robust impact measurement frameworks sets you apart. My strategic recommendations for both regions: 1. Don't just apply to grants in your exact sector. The data shows cross-sector solutions (like digital innovation for climate action in LATAM, or health-tech for education in Africa) are hitting multiple funding streams. 2. Think globally, not just locally. With global grants representing 35% of all opportunities, don't limit yourself to regional funding. Go international from day one. 3. Frame your impact through a digital or AI lens, even if it's not primarily a tech solution. Given digital innovation and AI's dominance in funding opportunities, positioning your work within digital transformation narratives can unlock significantly more funding doors. Want the full report? Comment and I send it out in a DM:  - ➡️ 🇬🇧 "English report" for the complete analysis in English  - ➡️ 🇪🇸 "Reporte en español" for the Spanish version 🔺 Disclaimer: This analysis is based on grant opportunities we've manually collected, so there may be selection biases we cannot control (you'll notice it's heavily focused on companies rather than traditional NGOs). This isn't academic research, but our own analysis aimed at helping the entrepreneurship and social innovation ecosystem. Courtney Sipes Shoshana Grossman-Crist #Grants #ImpactInvesting #SocialEntrepreneurship #LatinAmerica #Africa #Innovation #DigitalTransformation #ClimateAction #GlobalHealth

🚀 I built a Python script that hunts down funding opportunities for NGOs in Somalia — and summarizes them using GPT-4! Here's what it does: ✅ Crawls up to 2000 pages on fundsforNGOs.org using requests and BeautifulSoup 🔎 Extracts post details that mention the word “Somalia” 📆 Tries to detect deadlines using regular expressions 📥 Finds "Apply" or "Submit" links automatically 🧠 Sends full grant content to OpenAI’s GPT-4 to summarize: What it's about Eligibility (especially for African NGOs) --> How to apply --> Key deadlines --> Things to avoid 📂 Saves each opportunity as a clean .md summary file 🗂️ Creates a full index of matched grants in a master markdown file 😎 With random user-agents, rate-limit protection, and markdown formatting! #Python #GPT4 #NGOs #GrantWriting #FundingOpportunities #AfricaTech #OpenAI #WebScraping #BeautifulSoup #AIforGood #Automation #TechForNGOs #Somalia #FundingSearch #ScriptToHelp

10 places to find funders for free! Finding new funders can feel hard. With success rates falling and many trusts closing, pausing or going invite-only, the pool of opportunities can feel like it’s shrinking. There are still good places to look and you don’t always need to pay for databases to keep building your pipeline. Here are 10 free ways to find funders that could be a good fit for your work 👇 1. Association of Charitable Foundations Giving Trends produces an annual publication reviewing top 300 grant makers https://www.acf.org.uk 2. Charity Excellence - a FREE one-stop-shop for everything a non-profit needs. FREE Funder Database – register and use it for free! https://lnkd.in/gySgbVQJ 3. UKGrantmaking list of 12,000 sources of grant funding - https://lnkd.in/gTjeJQtK 4. 360Giving lists grant giving data from 315 funders. Find out who they are funding to do what and what the levels of support are https://lnkd.in/gcVm--wU 5. Livery Companies Database – there are 110 livery companies, comprising London’s ancient and modern trade associations and guilds. Most have a charitable arm and not all just fund the trade they are the association of https://lnkd.in/gQZsMRwb 6. Directory of Social Change has a paid subscription service called Funds Online – https://lnkd.in/gGJBFtQY but did you know you can access the printed directories for FREE in the library? 7. Grants Online Ltd - there are various Subscription options but there is also a FREE Newsletter www.grantsonline.org.uk 8. Competitors websites and accounts – who is funding similar organisations to you? Look at other organisations working with similar groups of people or other local groups. 9. 101 Ways to Grow Your Prospect List by Alicia Grainger – if my list is not enough check this list of 101 other places to look at https://lnkd.in/g6SqDFb5 10. Your local council – many local councils have a funding officer or external funding team who may be able to help you with database searches. If you need the East Sussex or Brighton & Hove contacts (where I am based) let me know! Any other free ones you know about?

🌍 New Funding Opportunities for #Health! Due to recent cuts in funding to public health institutions, medical research, prevention programs, and emergency initiatives worldwide, a growing number of #donors are stepping in to bridge the gap. I wanted to share 8 recent funding commitments: 🔸 Decolonizing Wealth Project launched this week the Youth Mental Health Fund aiming to redistribute a minimum of $15 million in grants over three years starting in 2025, prioritizing access for #LGBTQI+ #youth of color. https://lnkd.in/evCaDfue 🔸 GiveWell has approved grants totaling around $24 million in direct response to the 2025 cuts to US foreign aid spending including funding to bridge seasonal #malaria prevention campaigns, procurement of HIV/syphilis dual tests and technical assistance to support Ministries of Health in different countries. https://lnkd.in/ee6RC2UE 🔸The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation is launching a competitive emergency grant cycle to provide financial resources to organizations in need ensuring that critical health services for #HIV treatment & prevention and programs focused on #Transgender communities can continue to operate into the near future. https://lnkd.in/e6Y4_xwU 🔸Evidence for Action (E4A) will fund Rapid Response Research grants at least to partially offset losses in federal funding for existing and new research to address ongoing threats to #Racial and #Indigenous #healthequity. https://lnkd.in/eyzssQ2V 🔸EQT Foundation has launched a new global call for proposals under its Breakthrough Science grants program for pioneering #researchers tackling women’s health challenges. https://lnkd.in/ea8Sh7tx 🔸The Beginnings Fund launched last April pledged $100 million in direct investments in #maternal and #childhealth https://lnkd.in/d_c_3ba9 🔸UNICEF Venture Fund opened call for US$100K in equity-free funding to early-stage, for-profit startups leveraging frontier technologies that improves access to healthcare essential services for women and girls https://lnkd.in/dG2Xr-Rf 🔸 Being Initiative and Grand Challenges Canada launched a call for mental health and wellbeing projects for underserved youth in diverse countries https://lnkd.in/dtT9PeN9 These are just a few of the opportunities that have been added to the ImpactMapper 2025 Funding Database, our mapping project on how philanthropies and other donors and investors are meeting this moment. 📣 Follow and participate in the mapping funding data project! Do you know of other types of funding in the health sector? Please share them in comments and we will add them to our database. ➡️ Want to follow new funding opportunities? Subscribe to receive free access to our 2025 Funding Database listing 175+ new funding commitments with a detailed taxonomy to make the information easily searchable, link in comments. #funding #fundingopportunities #philanthropy #grants #impactinvesting

❓How do you find grants for your nonprofit when you’re juggling multiple priorities and short on time? 🎯 My advice would be to get focused. 1️⃣ Get clear on your fundraising goals It’s a lot easier to search for strong-fit funding if you are clear on what that funding is for. Your organization may deliver multiple programs and services, but focusing on one at a time will help your search be more efficient. 2️⃣ Focus on quality over quantity A few well-aligned grant opportunities are worth loads more than several grant opportunities that aren’t a strong fit. Rather than looking for lots of opportunities, spend time identifying a handful that are well aligned with the program you want to fund. 3️⃣ Block 1 hour of focus time Time will always be an issue, especially in a small or mid-sized nonprofit organization. So, the only way to have time for grant research is to make time. Just blocking out 1 hour each month to do research into a handful of opportunities will put you in a better position than you are today, right? So put it on your calendar and honor that time. It will pay off in the long run. A focused strategy will help keep your grant pipeline going and help you stay ahead of funding opportunities while dedicating time to other priorities. 💡Want to take grant research, writing, and reporting off your to-do list and put it on mine? Book a Discovery Call and let’s chat.