Every nonprofit deserves a foundation funding pipeline.
Now they can afford one.

Every year, over 2 million nonprofits and private foundations file with the IRS. Those filings contain everything: grants made, grants received, officer names, board members, total assets, revenue, functional expenses. Private foundations report every grant on Form 990-PF — the recipient, the amount, and the purpose. It's all public record.

But actually using that data? Candid Premium for nonprofits is $1,199 a year. That prices out the people who need it most: the grant writer working three contracts to pay rent, the development director who IS the entire fundraising department, the executive director staying late because nobody else will do the research.

These are people with real missions. Feeding families. Tutoring kids. Restoring coastlines. They have the drive. They have the programs. What they don't have is access to the data that shows them which foundations are already funding work like theirs.

So they guess. They spray applications at every foundation with an open RFP. They drive an hour to the one library with a subscription. They spend 60% of their time on research and 40% on the relationships that actually win grants.

That's the starvation cycle. A $1,199 paywall that prices people out and still leaves a mountain of research work on the other side. We built GrantLedger to tear it down.