Welcome to GrantScout
By The GrantScout Team
Sustainability funding is fragmented. The money exists, hundreds of millions of dollars a year flow from agencies like UKRI, Grants.gov, the EU Funding & Tenders Portal, national lottery funds, and a long tail of climate foundations — but each program lives on a different website, with a different login, a different deadline format, and a different idea of what "early stage" means. The result is that founders and small nonprofits spend more time hunting for grants than writing them.
GrantScout is our attempt to fix that. Every day we pull open calls from a growing list of official sources, run them through a classifier that filters out non-grant content (news posts, retrospective aid flows, generic announcements), and surface what's left as a single searchable feed.
What's in the database today
- UKRI — UK Research & Innovation opportunities feed
- Grants.gov — US federal grant database (forecasted + posted)
- EU Funding & Tenders Portal — SEDIA open calls
- GOV.UK — Innovate UK, Defra, DESNZ and other UK department feeds
- National Lottery Heritage Fund — UK lottery-funded programmes
- Africa Grants — pan-African opportunities feed
We're actively wiring up OpenGrants and IATI next, plus a handful of climate-specific foundations.
Who this is for
If you're an early-stage founder building in carbon capture, biodiversity, circular economy, renewable energy, ocean conservation, sustainable agriculture, climate adaptation, or water — GrantScout is for you. We weight the feed toward sub-£5M opportunities that don't require an existing track record, and we tag each one with org-type fit (startup, SME, nonprofit, university, local authority) so you can filter quickly.
How it works under the hood
Every grant entry comes from a public API or RSS/Atom feed of the originating funder. Nothing is scraped from third-party aggregators or paywalled sources. After the fetch step, each opportunity is checked against an LLM classifier that asks one question: is this actually an open grant opportunity I could apply to? Anything that doesn't clear that bar (news items, closed calls, technical reports) is rejected before it lands in the database. Past-deadline grants are auto-expired daily.
What's next
Saved searches, email alerts on new matches, and a writeup tool that drafts your first-pass application using the funder's actual evaluation criteria. If there's a source you rely on that we don't yet cover, get in touch.