The free grant finder for UK charities.
Skip the manual search through 800-row spreadsheets. Our UK grant finder matches your charity profile to live funder data in 30 seconds — ranked by what you're actually eligible to win.
- Free forever — no credit card, no trial limit
- Live grants, refreshed daily
- Ranked by eligibility & fit
- Every match traceable to a verifiable source
Matching your charity…
We're pulling your filings and scoring live grants. Your matched list is on its way to your inbox.
Three steps. Sixty seconds.
CharityIQ is a free grant finder built for UK charities. Instead of trawling funder websites one by one, it matches your registered charity profile to live grants you're eligible for — from national trusts and foundations to local community and National Lottery funding. It exists because the maths of the sector is brutal: 62% of the UK's ~170,000 registered charities run on under £100,000 a year, yet between them they receive just 2.1% of sector funding. The fastest fix is applying to the right funders — not more funders.
Add your charity number
We pull your filings from the Charity Commission register — cause, beneficiaries and area of benefit come from your own record, not a form you fill in by hand.
Get matched grants
Live grants ranked by fit and eligibility — with deadlines and typical award sizes — emailed to you instantly.
Apply with confidence
Free to use. Upgrade only if you want AI to draft the application.
How the matching actually works.
The Grant Finder scores every live UK grant against five things from your charity's own record — and filters out anything you can't apply for before you ever see it. Whether you'd call it a grant finder, a funder finder or a grant checker, the job is the same: turn thousands of open grants into a shortlist that's worth your evening.
Cause & beneficiaries
Taken from your Charity Commission register entry — what you do and who you serve, as officially recorded.
Geography
The funder's eligible areas against your registered area of benefit. A Wales-only fund never reaches a Kent charity's shortlist.
Size fit
Typical award against your income band. A £250k programme rarely goes to a £30k charity — we don't pretend otherwise.
Deadlines
Open and rolling programmes only. Closed rounds drop out of the data daily, so you never chase a dead deadline.
Exclusions
The fine print — no statutory work, no capital costs, no individual applicants — applied automatically, not discovered on page 6.
Grants from the funders that matter.
Prefer to research funders yourself? Start with our free, no-signup guides: Grants for small UK charities · Garfield Weston application guide · NLCF Awards for All guide · The Fore guide · Lloyds Bank Foundation guide · How to use GrantNav
Grant Finder vs paid databases vs GrantNav vs Google.
Four ways UK charities look for funding — and what each one is genuinely good at. Short version: paid databases are excellent if you have the budget and the hours; GrantNav is the best research tool for past giving; the Grant Finder is the fastest route to a shortlist you can act on this week.
| CharityIQ Grant Finder | Paid funding databases | GrantNav (360Giving) | Googling it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | Free, forever | Typically £300–£1,000+ a year | Free | Free |
| What you get | A ranked shortlist matched to your charity | A searchable directory you filter yourself | Historic grants data — who funded what | Whatever ranks that day |
| Eligibility matching | Automatic — five checks against your registered profile | Manual — you read each entry's criteria | None — it's a research tool, not a matcher | None |
| Data freshness | Live programmes, refreshed daily | Live, editorially maintained | Historic (published retrospectively by funders) | Mixed — often out of date |
| Time to a usable shortlist | ~30 seconds | Hours | Hours, plus analysis | Days, if ever |
| Best for | Small charities without a fundraising team | Funded fundraising teams | Researching a funder's past giving | Background reading |
To be clear: GrantNav is excellent — we use its open data ourselves, and we've written a full GrantNav tutorial. The difference is direction: GrantNav tells you who funded what; the Grant Finder tells you who's likely to fund you.
Frequently asked.
Yes — forever. No trial, no card, no upsell wall. Our grant finder is permanently free for UK charities; we earn only when a charity chooses to upgrade to AI-drafted applications.
A grant finder matches your charity to funding it's eligible for, so you don't read hundreds of trust deeds by hand. Enter your Charity Commission number and cause area, and we score live UK grants against your registered profile — ranked by eligibility and emailed to you in under a minute.
It's built for them. Many small UK charities can't justify a £1,000-a-year funding database, so our grant finder is free and needs no fundraising team — just your charity number. You get the same live grant data the big tools charge for.
We score each grant against your registered cause area, beneficiaries, area of benefit, income band and each funder's stated exclusions. Match scores reflect how likely you are to be eligible — a shortlist worth your time, not a judgement on application strength.
We pull from 360Giving and GrantNav plus direct funder feeds — covering trusts and foundations like Garfield Weston, Esmée Fairbairn and Henry Smith, National Lottery programmes, and other UK grant-makers. The list refreshes daily.
GrantNav shows historic grants; a spreadsheet shows everything and matches nothing. Our grant finder filters live opportunities down to the ones your charity is actually eligible for, then ranks them — so you start from a shortlist, not 800 rows.
Grant coverage is UK-wide, including funders that give across all four nations. Automatic profile lookup currently uses the Charity Commission register (England and Wales); OSCR and CCNI lookups are on our roadmap, so Scottish and Northern Irish charities get the best results by describing their work in the cause field for now.
The matching is most accurate with a registered charity number, because we build your profile from your Charity Commission record. Many funders in our data do also fund CICs and constituted community groups — but eligibility rules differ per funder, so check each match's criteria before applying.
We use it to send your matched grant list, and — only if you tick yes — occasional emails about CharityIQ. We never sell or share your data, and every email has an unsubscribe link. Details are in our privacy policy.
Let AI draft the application too.
CharityIQ's AI grant writing drafts your applications using your charity data — every claim cited. Plans from £49/mo.