Most grant tools hand you a list. This one applies a hard eligibility gate first — so you never read an announcement your organization was never allowed to apply for.
Free. Runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded or stored.
Yes. Grants.gov is the official federal source and it is free. The problem is not access, it is volume — it lists thousands of open opportunities and most of them your organization is not permitted to apply for. This tool is free too, and its job is to cut that list down to what you are actually eligible to submit.
Every opportunity on Grants.gov carries structured applicant-type codes.
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit is code 12; a nonprofit without 501(c)(3) status is
13; a small business is 23; a public university is 06;
a federally recognized tribal government is 07; 99 means unrestricted.
If your code is not listed, you generally cannot apply. This scanner filters on those codes
directly, which is why a nonprofit and a small business searching the same database get almost
entirely different results.
Code 25. It means eligibility depends on prose in the announcement rather than
the structured data, so it cannot be resolved mechanically. This tool marks those
Review eligibility instead of guessing. Any tool that tells you you are definitely
eligible for a code-25 opportunity is guessing.
Look at what the program has actually awarded before. USAspending.gov publishes every federal award by CFDA program number, free. If the median prior award is $40M and you are requesting $150K, you are competing against major research institutions — that is a mismatch no amount of proposal quality fixes. This scanner pulls that number for every result automatically.
Partly. Paid platforms like Instrumentl (from $299/month) also cover private foundation grants, pipeline tracking, and reporting, which this does not. What this does is the federal discovery and eligibility-filtering piece, free, with no signup. If you are a small organization whose grant budget cannot absorb a $3,588 annual subscription, start here.
Not yet — federal opportunities on Grants.gov only. State, local, and private foundation funding are separate databases.
No. Everything runs in your browser and talks directly to the federal APIs. There is no backend, no account, no logging, and nothing is uploaded.