Finding out who funds organisations like yours: 360Giving data, charity accounts, peer lookups and how to build a trusts and foundations pipeline.
9 guides, last updated .
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Some UK trusts accept applications from anyone eligible, some consider letters, some fund by invitation only. The website, the trustees' report and the grants list tell you which in minutes, before you write.
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A grant application tracker records every funder from first research to final report: stage, route, dates, amounts, outcome, feedback and when you may reapply. The fields that matter and why each earns its column.
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A trusts pipeline is a dated list of funders at five stages, from identified to decided, sized so that realistic success rates still deliver the income you need. How to build one and the fields to track.
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Who funds a charity is public information. Its accounts on the charity register list grants received, GrantNav lists every published grant to it, and its annual report thanks its funders. Here is where to look.
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A trust's accounts on the charity register show its grant-making policy, the grants it made, how much it has to give and whether it will consider you. Where each answer sits and how to read it in fifteen minutes.
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360Giving data records 1.5 million grants UK funders have already made. Four searches on GrantNav and OpenGrant turn it into a shortlist of funders that give to organisations like yours, with typical award sizes.
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A freelance trust fundraiser needs the charity registers, GrantNav and a database of open calls, plus a tracker that travels between clients. What each tool covers and cost on 26 October 2026, and how to combine them.
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Prospect research is how trust fundraisers turn 49,000 UK grant-makers into a shortlist that fits: who funds your peers, what they really give, whether they accept applications and when. The complete method.
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A grant-making trust is a charity that exists to give money to other charities rather than run services. The UK has tens of thousands, from foundations with programmes to family trusts with no website.