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Every private foundation and every grantmaking charity reports the checks it wrote — the organization that got the money, the amount, and the purpose in the funder’s own words — in a public IRS filing. Civly holds millions of those grants and matches your organization against them, so you approach the funders whose money already reaches your cause, your state, and your size.
Most grant tools sell a directory: open calls, deadlines, and each funder’s own description of what it cares about. That is what a foundation says. Its tax return is what it did — every grant paid, the recipient named, the dollar figure, and the purpose written by the funder, filed under penalty of perjury. Ten years of a funder’s checks predict the eleventh better than any mission statement.
Every grant carries a purpose line the funder wrote — “community health worker training,” “emergency shelter operations,” “after-school literacy.” We match your programs against that text across millions of paid grants, not against a category dropdown that flattens your work into “Human Services.”
Recipient name, address, and EIN sit on the grant record. So we can see what a funder does rather than what it claims: whether it gives outside its own county, whether it writes $10,000 checks or $500,000 checks, and whether the organizations it backs look anything like yours.
Closed foundations look closed in the data. The same handful of recipients year after year, and a filing that names any relationship between a grantee and a foundation manager. Those rank last, so your list is funders with a demonstrated habit of backing organizations they were not already connected to.
Every row carries the evidence that produced it: the grant, the year, the funder’s own purpose language, and the filing it came from.
Three passes: read your organization out of its own filings, find the funders whose money moves toward that work, then name the people who decide.
A grant match is not a dashboard you have to remember to open. Civly re-runs the match as new filings land and sends a brief: what is new since last time, what changed at funders you were already working, and who to talk to. Reply to it to ask for more on any single funder.
Four funders newly match your programs, and one you were already tracking changed its giving.
Changed: a funder on your list has not reported a grant in your program area for two consecutive filings. Worth a call before another proposal cycle.
Public filings, at scale. Nothing here requires a funder to have told anyone what it plans to do next.
What this is not. Civly indexes grants that were paid, not opportunities that are open. There is no RFP calendar here and no deadline feed, and we do not write or submit your application. A 990 also arrives months after the year it covers, so the newest filings describe last year’s giving.
What that record buys you is direction that a directory cannot: which funders actually move money toward work like yours, at what size, how often, and which human being to call. Every claim on your match sheet resolves to a filing you can open and read yourself.
Grant Matching finds the money. These decide what you do about it.
A match tells you a funder is reachable. It does not tell you whether the gift is safe to accept. Run the funder, its principals, or a prospective board member before the money is on your books.
When a funder matters enough to prepare for properly — its giving history, its leadership, its other grantees, and what has been written about it — in one sourced report.
The standing job behind the brief. Re-run the match on a schedule, watch named funders for new filings, and put the result in an inbox instead of a dashboard.
Send us your EIN. We will run the match and walk you through the funders it surfaces, the evidence behind each one, and the people worth approaching first.
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