Find funders for specific types of organisations
When to use this guide
Use this to find funders who have funded organisations of a specific type – like Community Interest Companies or charities – working on a particular cause or topic.
What you’ll get
You’ll be able to see which organisations of that type have received relevant grants and who has funded them. You can explore, refine, and download your results using GrantNav and GrantVis.
You’ll need
- The type of organisation you want to find.
Example: Community Interest Company (CIC) - (Optional) A locationExample:
Manchester - (Optional) A date rangeExample:
2023-2025 - (Optional) A topic keyword or phraseExample:
“community garden”
Tip: Interpreting your results
Search results are based on data published using the 360Giving Standard. Results may vary depending on what data has been published.
Check:
- The number of grants
- The total funding amount
- The date range
- The names and number of funders and recipient orgs
This helps you understand how broad or focused your results are, and what kind of activities they relate to.
Steps
1. Identify the required recipient organisation type search link
GrantNav supports more complex searching using field names and values. This has a more complicated structure than a typical search.
To get you started, we have provided the search terms needed to search by recipient organisation type, so you can simply select the relevant link from the table below to start your search.
Tip: Recipient organisation type is only visible where an official organisation identifier has been used.
2. Refine your search
a. Add additional search terms to the search bar
To refine the search to specific causes or topics, add additional search terms to the search bar using the AND operator after the recipient organisation type.
For example: additional_data.recipientOrgInfos.organisationTypePrimary: "Community Interest Company" AND "community garden"
Tip: Use quotation marks to search for the whole phrase. Without them, a search for community gardens will also show results with only “community” or only “garden.”
To search for more than one phrase at once, use AND – for example, “mental health” AND “young people.”
b. Filter by date
To find grants in a particular date range, use the Award Date filter.
You can:
- Enter a From date to see grants from that month and year onwards
- Enter a To date to see grants up to that date
- Enter both a From date and To date for a specific range
- Or select one or more calendar years
c. Filter by location
To find grants in a particular place, use the Location filter.
In Type, select Best Available from the dropdown. This uses the most detailed location data available.
Tip: Not all grants have detailed location data. If a grant doesn’t include location data, it won’t appear when you filter by location. Learn how location filtering works.
4. Explore the results
Explore the types of grants awarded. GrantNav shows results it thinks are most relevant first.
Use the Sort by menu to look through results in a different way.
You can sort by Best Match, Amount, and Award Date.
You can review the list of funders in the Funding Organisations filter and a list of recipients in the Recipient Organisations filter.
5. Download your results
To export a spreadsheet of your results, select Download as CSV.
You can use Excel or a similar program to filter, sort, and analyse further, including:
- Identifying top funders or recipients
- The number of grants awarded
- The value of those grants
Use the Custom CSV option if you want to choose which columns to include in your download.
6. Visualise your results
Select Visualise your search results in GrantVis.
This opens an interactive summary showing:
- Which funders are most active on this topic
- Typical grant sizes
Where recipients are based (if location data is available)
