About GrantScout
GrantScout is a curated feed of sustainability funding for early-stage companies, nonprofits and research teams. Grants, public tenders, subcontracts, accelerators and innovation challenges — surfaced from government portals, multilaterals, foundations and private programmes, updated daily.
What we cover
Grants — open calls from governments (Grants.gov, UKRI, EU Funding Portal, GOV.UK), multilaterals (IATI), foundations and philanthropy (ClimateWorks, CIFF, VCMI), plus prizes, fellowships, tax credits and SBIR/STTR topics.
Tenders — public procurement notices from 50+ official portals (TED EU, World Bank, UNGM, SAM.gov, UK Find a Tender, AusTender, and country portals across LATAM, Africa, Asia and the EU).
Subcontracts & partner programmes — calls for partners published by primes (Palladium, DT Global), accelerators (F6S programmes), and innovation challenges (IFC TechEmerge).
Funder & buyer directory — 600+ active funders and 15,000+ buyers (offtakers, corporates committing to climate-relevant spend) so you can target outreach beyond just the open opportunities.
How we classify
Every record passes through a deterministic pre-filter (CPV codes for tenders, sustainability-keyword matching for everything else) before any AI runs. That keeps cost down and noise out: roughly 90% of raw inbound is dropped before classification.
Survivors go to a Claude classifier with a strict, hand-curated sector taxonomy (32 sustainability-relevant slugs — renewable energy, carbon removal, regenerative agriculture, etc.). Output is hard-filtered against that vocabulary so a record is only tagged with a sector when the call genuinely targets it.
We re-classify historic records when we tighten prompts — the most recent pass (May 2026) removed spurious sector tags from ~58% of the tender backlog.
Source attribution
Each card shows the source it came from. GrantScout doesn't originate any funding — we link straight back to the official listing so you apply on the source's own portal. If a card's data looks wrong, the source page is the canonical reference.
| Pipeline | Source | Active rows |
|---|---|---|
| Grants | Funder Discovery | 1,267 |
| Triple Funds Seed | 479 | |
| UKRI (UK) | 189 | |
| Auura Cfp | 145 | |
| Grants.gov (US) | 111 | |
| Grantmakers Quality Screen | 98 | |
| Iati | 80 | |
| OpenGrants | 76 | |
| Govuk | 25 | |
| Aria Opportunity Spaces | 14 | |
| Africa Grants | 11 | |
| Lottery | 2 | |
| Tenders | TED (EU) | 947 |
| Spain Pcsp | 193 | |
| UNGM | 53 | |
| UK Find a Tender | 27 | |
| SECOP (CO) | 24 | |
| ARCE (UY) | 20 | |
| World Bank | 20 | |
| mTender (MD) | 18 | |
| UK Contracts Finder | 14 | |
| Prozorro (UA) | 9 | |
| Compras (BR) | 8 | |
| Netherlands Tenderned | 7 | |
| Gold Standard | 5 | |
| Ireland Etenders | 5 | |
| Ebrd | 4 | |
| Un Partner Portal | 4 | |
| DNCP (PY) | 3 | |
| Giz | 2 | |
| Gggi | 2 | |
| Wales Sell2wales | 2 | |
| Undp | 2 | |
| SAM.gov | 1 | |
| Afdb | 1 | |
| Isdb | 1 | |
| Subcontracts & programmes | F6s | 85 |
| Dt Global Portal | 30 | |
| Palladium Portal | 15 | |
| Ifc Techemerge | 13 | |
| Total active rows | 4,012 | |
Snapshot — refreshed hourly. Active rows only (open tenders, active grants/programmes).
Data freshness
- Daily scrape (06:00 UTC) — grants pipeline.
- Daily scrape (07:00 UTC) — tenders pipeline.
- Weekly scrape (Sun 08:00 UTC) — intelligence pipeline (funding flows + buyer signals).
Past-deadline rows are auto-expired. Rows with deadlines more than 5 years out are hidden by default (override with ?include_stale=1).
What we deliberately don't do
No paid promotion. Cards are ranked on relevance and deadline, never on payment.
No paywall. The full feed is free; we don't gate results behind a sign-up.
No application service yet. We surface opportunities and link to the official portal — applications happen there. (A grant-writing assistant is on the roadmap.)
Found something wrong?
We'd rather hear about a stale link, a mis-tagged sector or a missing funder than not. Email hello@grantscout.io with the listing URL and what looked off.