UK grant databases compared: GrantFinder, Funds Online, My Funding Central, Charity Excellence, GrantNav and OpenGrant, with prices and coverage.
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Charity Excellence's Funding Finder is free and worth keeping. OpenGrant adds source links, open-call ingest, 360Giving evidence, exports and an API. How the two differ, checked 26 October 2026.
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Eight free UK grant finders compared, plus Northern Ireland’s paid GrantTracker service: coverage, deadlines and registration. Checked 26 October 2026.
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GrantFinder costs £1,020 a year for one user. The alternatives range from free government and open-data tools to £29 a month, each with a different trade-off. Prices checked 26 October 2026.
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GrantNav is the free, authoritative explorer of 1.5 million grants UK funders have already made. OpenGrant uses the same 360Giving data to answer a different question: what is open now, and who funds your peers.
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My Funding Central is cheap and good for small English charities, but it stops at £1m income and at the English border. What to use if you fall outside its rules. Checked 26 October 2026.