GrantGopher.com - Grant Funding Search

Grant Gopher is a site that sends registered users weekly email announcements about available grants. Users can find out about federal, state, private, and local grant donations to open up funding possibilities for their causes. Possible grant receivers can be individuals, small businesses, and larger organizations. To find a grant that suits their cause, users may search the list of available grants, and refine their search with criteria that is relevant to their needs and qualities. This is free site to use, and also offers links on other free resources that users will find valuable, such as a grant glossary and a list of various grant forms.

“Maybe we're crazy..... OK, we know we're crazy. Searching out and cataloging available grant announcements takes a lot of time! But we believe that this information should be freely available, especially because grants are so desperately needed by people and organizations that may not be able to afford subscription fees or a professional grant researcher. So here's what we've done: Set up a database that only includes grants currently open for application. No outdated information here! We include everything that we can find....corporate foundations, community foundations, private foundations and all levels of government, designed a really simple interface that you can filter by program area and state, also includes keyword search, given you full access to every grant record in our database, included all the necessary information to review and apply for the grant, kept everything online - you just sign in to search. There is no special software to download, and no upgrades to pay for. It really, honestly, is free.”

Grant Gopher is a very consolidated and detailed list of grants available for all ranges of organizations and causes. The website itself is simple to use and full of information. This is a one-stop shop for anyone curious about finding the resources to applying for grants.

What other resources and explanations be useful to users? What partnerships can be formed with existing organizations to link applicants to this site to obtain information and applications? Could model example applications be of use to users?