Find and keep funding
Hear about new grant rounds without checking ten websites
Give Grantkeeper the foundation, city and state grant pages you follow. Each week it reads them, compares them with what it saw last time, and texts you what changed.
Fictional example.
Text it like this
Fictional example.
How the weekly watch works
Send the pages once: a family foundation's grants page, your community foundation's open funds, a city or county grants page, a state agency's notices. Grantkeeper keeps the list in your files, along with what each page said the last time it looked. Once Schedules is on and you confirm the day and time, it opens every page on schedule, notes deadlines, new rounds, changed amounts and eligibility lines, and compares them with the week before.
On a week with a change, you get one short text with each new item, its deadline and the link. On a quiet week you get nothing, or a one-line "no changes" if you would rather hear it. Federal listings are easiest through Grants.gov, which publishes feeds of new and changed opportunities by agency and by category, so Grantkeeper can follow one of those instead of the search page.
What it can and cannot see
It reads public pages and the PDFs they link to, such as guidelines or a request for proposals. A page that needs a login, a grant portal, or a page that will not load for it comes back as "could not read this week." Some foundations say they fund only groups they choose themselves; Grantkeeper points that line out so you do not spend a week on a letter they will not read.
The watch reads and tells you. It does not register, apply or submit anything. When a round looks right, ask for the fit check or a letter of inquiry draft.
Fictional example: a church food pantry watches four pages. In late January the Larkin Family Foundation page adds a spring round with letters of inquiry due February 6, and that Monday's text names the date, the $25,000 cap and the link.
New to funder research? The guide to finding grants that fit covers where to look first.
Sources: Grants.gov RSS feeds, Grants.gov: search grants
What you send
The pages you want watched, the day and time for the check, and what counts as a fit, such as youth programs in your county.
What Grantkeeper prepares
A saved list of the pages, a weekly check that texts you new rounds and deadlines with their links, and no text on weeks when nothing changed.
What to keep in mind
Schedules has to be on. A page behind a login, or one that cannot be read that week, is reported as unread, never as unchanged.