Find grants by searching on Foundation Directory

Are you looking for potential  funders for your nonprofit? You can get started quickly by conducting a  simple search on Foundation Directory. Start your search right from  the homepage by describing your organization's work in the text box area. It’s best to keep the description short  and straightforward -- what you do and where. For our example, we’ll use “Food bank  in Houston Texas” and click the Search button. In an instant you’ll see how Foundation  Directory has interpreted your text in

the Showing Results For statement.  In this case, it’s Food banks, Houston Texas as the geographic location, and  low-income people as the population served. Once you run the search, you  can see the total grantmakers, grants, and recipients for that given search. If the search filters look good, start  reviewing the results. If they don’t, you can delete any of them by clicking  on the ‘x’ to the right of the term. You may need to try a few searches to finetune your list of potential funders. I

f you  would like to see more search results, try deleting a term or two. Remember many  funders provide very broad grant descriptions, therefore searches with many specific terms  will cut out your funding opportunities. Each search provides this overview  -- Aggregate totals for grantmakers, historic grant awards, recipients of  those grants, and related 990 tax forms. To refine your current search  more, use the EDIT button. And to build a new search from  scratch, select CLEAR ALL. That’s al

l there is to searching for  funders on Foundation Directory! Now it’s your turn – start with a quick search  describing what you do and where you work. Log in to begin your next  search! Good luck fundraising!