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A basic subscription (including federal and foundation grants) is $18.95 per month. State grants are an additional $6.95 per month, per state. You may pay by the month or by the year.
Grants and other forms of funding are available from a wide variety of sources. Here are the major categories of funders:
Grant Spy reports on funding opportunities available from agencies of state, county, and municipal governments across the nation. Currently, however, the only states that we research thoroughly are California, New York, and Ohio; therefore, there is an additional monthly charge for state-level content from these states.
Government agencies usually announce grants 30-60 days prior to their deadlines, but the time period varies. Some grants have no deadlines, and applications are accepted continuously. Some grants are annual programs, which means that, if you've missed the deadline, you will probably be able to apply next year. Government grants are often dependent on legislation to appropriate new funding every fiscal year.
Many foundations accept applications continuously; others review applications several times per year; others issue specific Requests For Proposals (RFP) with specific deadlines.
Of the 3552 grants in the Grant Spy database at this moment, 1531 have pending deadlines, 1950 have past deadlines, and 847 have unspecified deadlines.
Grant Spy notifies its subscribers of newly announced grants as soon as possible. Federal grants usually appear in Grant Spy on the same day that they are officially announced.
Government RFPs are usually very specific about eligibility criteria. Eligible applicants can include non-profit organizations, other government agencies, schools, for-profit businesses, and other organizations. Foundations generally provide less specific guidance to applicants, preferring to consider each proposal individually.
In general, organizations, not private individuals, are eligible to apply for the grants you will find in Grant Spy. The exceptions are fellowships, scholarships, and awards, which are usually offered to individuals within a specific field or organization.
Relatively few funders are willing to give directly to individuals, and advertisers promising "free grant money" should be approached with extreme skepticism.
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We will never share with a third party personally identifying information provided to us by our subscribers. Credit-card information is not collected nor stored by Grant Spy; it is directly submitted to and processed by our merchant account provider via secure servers.
We don't display an e-mail address because, unfortunately, it's virtually impossible to do so without it being picked up by spammers. We don't display a telelphone number because we have found that it's actually quicker and easier to reply to your questions via e-mail, since they usually require a bit of research. Please use the form on our help page to contact us initially, and we'll be happy to provide you with our telephone number if necessary.
No, just a web browser and an e-mail client.
The vast majority of grants are made to nonprofit and other public organizations. Grantors usually do not give money directly to individuals, because they have no way of knowing whether the money will be used for the intended purpose. Most of the money given to individuals is in the form of scholarships and fellowships. Finding money for individuals is not one of Grant Spy's priorities. We suggest you consult nonprofit agencies in your area such as the United Way, which may know of such opportunities.
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When you subscribe, you will find a link to our IRS W-9 form in PDF format on the payments page.
Because you get what you pay for. Don't make the mistake of thinking that, just because grants are "free money", everything associated with them should be free. It's true there are plenty of free sources of information on the internet, but most of them are long on good intentions and short on resources. Their content tends to be poorly organized, incomplete, and out of date. If you're serious about getting grant funding, you can't afford to rely on free sources.
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Subscribers may forward our daily bulletins occasionally, provided that in doing so they do not deprive Grant Spy of revenue. Grant Spy's data is copyrighted material and redistribution of it is prohibited. This policy is regrettable but necessary if Grant Spy is to remain financially viable. However, subscribers may share Grant Spy's data with colleagues employed by their organizations as needed to conduct the organization's normal business. All subscribers agree to abide by these Terms and Conditions when they subscribe.
When we include a grant which is past its deadline, it is because there is a good chance that the grant will be offered again at some time in the future. Many grants are offered annually, semi-annually, or quarterly, so don't give up just because the current deadline has passed. If the grant looks like a good fit for you, contact the funder directly to find out if and when the grant will be available again.
Probably not. Grant Spy's purpose is to notify its subscribers of funding opportunities. We have no 'inside information' and we cannot make recommendations. The only advice we can offer is to read the original funding notices thoroughly and contact the funders for more information. For details on this subject, please read our Disclaimer.
If an occasional bulletin goes astray, it's probably just a transitory problem. We can't re-send bulletins, but you can see them at the website, under the Bulletins link. If you have not received a bulletin in several days, however, there are several considerations.If you have never received a bulletin…
- Check to see if your spam filter has been diverting or rejecting them. Spam filters are the most common culprit behind this problem. Sometimes a spam filter running at the server level rejects your bulletins before you ever see them.
- If the bulletin 'bounces' back to us, we will notify you, and you will need to ask your IT department to resolve the problem. Such spam filters usually have 'white' or 'safe' lists which allow specified senders to bypass the filter; ask your postmaster to add our email address (which is 'email' @ our domain name) to the list of allowed addresses.
- Probably the easiest solution is to have your bulletins delivered to another e-mail address. Simply go into your Folder, click on 'My profile', and enter your alternate address. Note that a different address at the same domain (e.g., '@domain.org') will likely not solve the problem, since both addresses are at the server. If you don't have an alternate address at a different domain, you can set up a free account with Yahoo (recommended) or another e-mail provider.
If you have received bulletins in the past, but not lately…
- Occasionally, a server rejects a bulletin for no obvious reason. This problem is usually transitory, and persists for no more than a day. If your bulletins begin to be returned consistently, we will try to notify you of the problem.
- Has new spam filtering software been installed on your computer?
- Ask your ISP or IT department if they have made any changes that could explain why you have not been receiving your bulletins.
- Try a different e-mail address (see above).
If you receive bulletins irregularly…
- Your ISP might be rejecting them. Our bulletins are e-mailed via an automated process which sometimes makes them look like spam to some spam filters. Also, depending on certain keywords and other content in a particular bulletin, your e-mail server might mistakenly reject it as spam.
- Complain to your ISP or IT department that you are not receiving e-mail that you have paid for.
- Try a different e-mail address (see above).
Below are some statistics about the funding opportunities currently contained in our database. Our database is updated daily.
Grants with pending deadlines accept applications until a specific cut-off date, after which the competition is closed. Grants with open deadlines accept applications continously. N/A indicates that deadlines are either not applicable or not available.
Pending: 158
Closed: 858
N/A: 97
Total: 1114
Open: 1062
Pending: 224
Closed: 694
N/A: 458
Total: 2438
Pending: 27
Closed: 153
N/A: 83
Total: 264
Pending: 26
Closed: 89
N/A: 15
Total: 131
Pending: 6
Closed: 26
N/A: 20
Total: 52
Some grants are offered exclusively or primarily in selected regions.
AK: 22
AL: 34
AR: 31
AZ: 107
CA: 349
CO: 55
CT: 67
DC: 55
DE: 27
FL: 119
GA: 91
HI: 34
IA: 47
ID: 36
IL: 124
IN: 80
KS: 43
KY: 42
LA: 41
MA: 127
MD: 74
ME: 48
MI: 66
MN: 80
MO: 54
MS: 31
MT: 35
NC: 92
ND: 24
NE: 22
NH: 51
NJ: 88
NM: 33
NV: 24
NY: 167
OH: 113
OK: 31
OR: 94
PA: 118
RI: 41
SC: 48
SD: 22
TN: 51
TX: 129
US (all states): 1061
UT: 32
VA: 63
VT: 37
WA: 108
WI: 75
WV: 30
WW: 100
WY: 15