How to search

Find funders, recipients and grants

Use these step-by-step guides to answer common questions with GrantNav,  the search engine for UK grants data published using the 360Giving Data Standard.

You might want to know:

• Who funds work on a particular cause
• What’s happening in your area
• Which organisations are doing similar work to your own

Each guide walks you through a real example and shows you how to adapt it to your own needs.

Find funders

• Find funders by name
  Use this to look up a specific funder and see their grants and recipients.
• Find funders of specific organisations
  Use this to see who has funded a specific organisation.
• Find funders by cause or topic
  Use this to find funders that support a specific cause or topic.
• Find funders for specific organisation types
  Use this to find organisations of a specific type – like Community Interest Companies or charities – working on a particular topic.

Find grant recipients

• Find grant recipients by name
  Use this to look up an organisation and see who funded them, and what for.
• Find grant recipients by cause or topic
  Use this to find organisations that have received grants for a specific cause or topic.

Find grants

• Find grants by cause or topic
  Use this when you want to see grants related to a specific topic, theme, or cause, with options to narrow by date and place.
• Find grants in a particular place
  Use this to see who is funding and who is being funded in a specific place.