Take an exclusive sneak peek at our grant database
Have you been wondering what's behind the curtain?
A few of you in our community have recently inquired on our searchable/filterable database of funding opportunities and how to best leverage it and our weekly new grant updates on FundraisingDispatch.com.
So we came up with a way to help you assess just how many grant opportunities over $50k we find and send out that would be good fits for your work as well as how our database can save you hours - putting relevant funding programs in emerging markets actively accepting applications all in one place!
Let’s get into it!
A quick review of Fundraising Dispatch Free vs. Premium
Free subscribers get
Grant & investment opportunities from $0 - $50k direct to their inboxes every week
Some public resources on fundraising, B2B sales, and building with AI
Premium subscribers get
Grants and investment opportunities from $0 - $10m+ direct to their inboxes every week
End-to-end guides, walkthroughs, tips/tricks, cheat-codes, email/LinkedIn templates, messaging strategies, and more, to use alongside your fundraising. Not theory. Actionable recommendations. Step-by-step, plug-and-play. Ready to implement.
Live use cases for integrating AI and automation in your day-to-day
Access to our filterable/searchable database to always have a high-level overview of the grants available for them to apply to
We know it might be hard to visualize… so we thought to give you a look inside!
Aaaaaaand an opportunity to play around.
You can now access the version of our database with grants that have since past their deadline!
We hope this helps you get a feel for how you can use the live “active” and “rolling” funding databases effectively and see the grant opportunities you nay have missed out on by not yet having registered as a paid/premium subscriber.
In case you’ve been wondering what’s behind the curtain…
Just click here or below.
https://bit.ly/GrantDatabaseSneakPeek
Enter password: FD_SneakPeek_2026!
And have a look at what our paid subscribers have been leveraging ever since we launched the database in Q4 last year.
Keep reading for:
Our advice on how to best filter our Airtable to isolate the right funding opportunities for you & your work
Ways to save yourself hours each week digging through databases, searching on google, asking Chat GPT, or following groups/influencers on LinkedIn
Some tips on what you can do if you find a program that’s a good fit (given that the opportunity is now past its deadline)
Here’s how our paid subscribers are finding, isolating, tracking, analyzing and winning the right grants for them.
First, just click here or below.
https://bit.ly/GrantDatabaseSneakPeek
Enter password: FD_SneakPeek_2026!
You’ll see hundreds of funding opportunities in emerging markets. You can look through them all; set a filter for just $100k+, sort by funding amount, or follow the steps below to focus on the right programs for you and your work.
Just Remember: these are funding opportunities that have since passed their deadlines.
Don’t kick yourself too hard if you find a grant that would have been perfect for your work. :)
Once you’re in… you should see this.
Start with the Type of opportunity you want to look for
But we recommend just keeping everything to its default
Filter to your specific Geography
Grants can be global, specific to a special list of eligible countries, regional, country specific, you name it!
We’ve done our best to make this easily filterable, but we have some recommendations on how to best isolate just the opportunities you should ne looking closer into. As per the screenshot above:
Select “Global”
This will catch grants available to organizations from any country
Select any of the “Lists” pertaining to the countries where you do business
These will catch grants available to countries on these lists. Current options:
Commonwealth Countries (here)
Slect any “Region” that you/your organization does business in
Choose any relevant to you
And finally, choose any “Country” your organization actively works in
Example
If your organization works in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa you should select:
Global | LMIC | ODA | Commonwealth | Africa | Sub-Saharan Africa | East Africa | West Africa | Southern Africa | Kenya | Nigeria | South Africa |
From there, we’ll work to isolate funding opportunities relevant to your “Sector”
Select “Any”
This will catch grants that are sector agnostic
Choose other sectors relevant to your work. They are more or less grouped together, minus a few outliers. The bolded options below are ones we recommend you select as a “catch-all” if relevant to your work. You can get more granular from there.
- Environment
- Conservation/Restauration
- Animal Welfare/Wildlife
- Carbon
- Ocean
- Climate
- Energy
- Clean Cooking
- Mobility
- Productive Use of Energy
- Agriculture
- Food
- Aquaculture
- Retail and FMCGs
- Manufacturing
- Export
- Logistics
- Infrastructure
- Transport
- Circular Economy
- Business Services
- B2B
- B2C
- Data
- Internet/ICT/CyberSecurity
- Crypto/Blockchain/Web3
- AI
- Mobile
- Deeptech
- Tech
- FinTech
- Finance
- Micro Finance
- Financial Inclusion
- Livelihood
- Youth
- Digital Access
- Digital Infrastructure
- Social Services
- Capacity Building
- Community Development
- Entrepreneurship
- Education
- EdTech
- Health
- Water and Sanitation
- Science
- BioTech
- Advocacy/Policy
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Hospitality/Tourism
- Research
- Investment
- Other
- Entertainment
- Insurance
- Construction
- Media
- Mining
- Real Estate
Each opportunity’s labeled Sector tags tell the story of the funding program! We recommend selecting any that could be relevant to you and your work.
And finally, you can isolate the right opportunities based on how your organization is formally registered with our Eligibility tags.
Select “Any”
This will catch grants meant for any type of organization or individual
Now choose either “Non Profit” , “For Profit”, “Government”, or “Academic Institution” depending on how your organization is formally registered
Though most of the grants with the tag “Individuals” will be research focused, you’ll also want to select it to catch funding that could go to you personally as opposed to your organization
Other Options:
- Informal/Community Groups
- Student (if you’re still studying)
- Youth (if you’re under 35)
- Principal Investigator (if you’re a researcher)
- Women-Led (if you’re a woman founder)
- Fund (if you invest in SMEs)
- Other
*It might help to select multiple eligibilities if you have other types of organizations that can partner with you on a grant. (For example, if an Academic Institution that can be the lead).
Ready to explore and play around?
Just click here or below.
https://bit.ly/GrantDatabaseSneakPeek
Enter password: FD_SneakPeek_2026!
Any questions?
Reply here or email daniel@fundraisingdispatch.com.
We’ve got a couple for you.
If our premium subscription helped you (or your portfolio companies, clients, or others you work with) find, apply for, and win $50k in grant funding… would our annual subscription rate of $10 a month be worth it?
And what if it was $100k that you won? Or $1,000,000?
Bonus Tips!
Did you find a grant program (though now, closed) that was relevant to you?
Check in on the funder’s website from time-to time to see when they publish another similar call for applications
See if…
You already know anyone at that organization you can reach out to (to remind them of your work and explore co-creation)
You know anyone that has previously received their funding that you can reach out to (to get their advice on working with them)
You can try cold outreach direct to the funder
To help you get on that funder’s radar and/or see if they have any $$$ available outside of their last RFP.
More info and strategies here:
Have you launched your 2026 fundraising?
You can:
- Subscribe to countless funder updates and wade through newsletter after newsletter of long reports, project updates, PR content, and donation requests… crossing your fingers hoping the next email has a relevant RFP
- Spend hours searching Google or asking Chat GPT about open funding programs
- Look through pages and pages of databases - bogged down by funding exclusive to nonprofits in the United States or scholarship/fellowship programs for students
- Follow 50+ influencers on LinkedIn, hoping their next post has the right opportunity
Or
You can just catch new relevant opportunities in your inbox on a weekly basis and then access a curated database here on FundraisingDispatch.com.
Skip the database Sneak Peek with grants past their deadlines.
And look through ~200 active funding programs instead.