The money you haven’t discovered yet
Somewhere there is a federal program that fits your work, and a foundation already funding work like yours. Grant discovery in CommunityForce reads the public record and brings both to you, ranked, explained and linked to the source.
Illustration of a funding profile, 85 percent complete: Fill with Phoenix at the top, then mission, focus areas, organization details and the two sources to search.
Funding profile
What your organization is and seeks. Every field here sharpens your matches.
Fill with Phoenix
Type your organization’s name or website. Phoenix reads your own site for the mission and focus; EIN, legal name and budget come from the IRS list. Review everything, then save.
Mission Phoenix
We award need-based scholarships to first-generation students in rural Texas and support them through graduation.
Focus areas Phoenix
Organization type
Community foundation
Annual budget
$1M–$5M
State
TX
EIN
74-1357924
Where to look Both sources are public and free.
Federal opportunitiesGrants.gov: every open and forecasted federal program
FoundationsIRS 990 filings: grantmaking foundations with real giving figures
Phoenix reads Grants.gov and every foundation’s 990 filings, ranks what fits your funding profile, explains why, and links every result to its source.
Find funding
Every foundation and federal program, best fit first
Explore holds every US foundation from the IRS list and its 990 filings, with what it actually gave: grants paid, the largest grants and their purpose, giving by state and year, officers and filings. Beside them sits every open federal program from Grants.gov, updated daily.
Matches puts the best fits first. Each one carries a fit word and score, why it fits, what to watch out for, a next step, the key facts at a glance and how to reach the funder. Every result links to its source record, so you can check it before you chase it.
For your best fits, Phoenix reads the funder’s own website: whether it takes requests or gives by invitation only, the apply and contact pages, a published contact email, deadlines and grant size. Where the website and the tax filing disagree, the website wins, because it is newer.
Add a match to the pipeline and it moves through Researching, Writing, Submitted and Awarded or Declined, with tasks, documents and reminders before every deadline. An award is recorded as a gift from the foundation, so the money is counted once.
One pipeline for grants and donorsIllustration of Find funding, the Matches view: foundations and federal programs ranked against the funding profile on the left, each with a fit word and score, and on the right the open match with why it fits, what to watch out for, the next step, the record at a glance and how to reach the funder, read from its own website.
Find funding
Foundations and federal programs that fit your funding profile, best fit first.
- Anderson FoundationFoundation Draft ready92Strong
- Rural Health Workforce TrainingHealth Resources & Services AdministrationFederal Closes in 34 days87Strong
- STEM Pathways GrantU.S. Department of EducationFederal Closes in 61 days81Strong
- Bluebonnet Education FundFoundation Draft ready76Good
- Veterans Workforce ReintegrationU.S. Department of LaborFederal Closes in 88 days71Good
Anderson Foundation
DismissOpen draftAdd to pipelineFoundation Austin, Texas EIN 74-2468135 Source record
Paid 14 scholarship grants in Texas last year, three of them to first-generation programs.
At a glance Phoenix’s summary of the record
- Who can apply
- Nonprofits and schools in Texas
- Award
- $25,000 to $150,000, median $85,000
- Deadline
- Letters of inquiry by March 1
Why it fits Phoenix’s read
- Your profile lists first-generation students and STEM education; its recent grants fund both.
- Its median grant sits inside the range you award from STEM Advancement.
Watch out: it gives first in Central Texas counties.
Next step: send a letter of inquiry before March 1.
How to reach them
- Requests
- Accepts applications
- Contact
- Grants program · grants@anderson-foundation.example
- Deadlines
- Letters of inquiry March 1; full proposals by invitation
- How to apply
- Letter of inquiry form on their website
From their website, read this morning. Where it disagrees with the 2025 filing, the website wins.
Funding Scout Agent
Every morning, the best new fits and a first letter to each
The Funding Scout Agent refreshes your matches each morning, reads the best fits’ websites and drafts a first letter to each new one. It emails your team only when something is new.
The letters wait for you. Open one in your own email or print it, check every fact, and mark it sent. The agent never contacts a funder.
Phoenix AgentsIllustration of Outreach, Funder letters: three first letters waiting, one open with why the funder fits, its subject and message, and the controls to copy it, open it in your own email, or mark it sent.
Outreach
First letters to your best-fitting funders, for you to review and send.
Anderson Foundation
Email · fit 92
Bluebonnet Education Fund
Letter · fit 76
Harbor Trust
Email · fit 72
Anderson Foundation
Email to Grants program, grants@anderson-foundation.example
Why it fits (score 92): its recent grants fund first-generation and STEM programs in Texas.
Subject
First-generation scholars in rural Texas
Dear Grants program,
Your foundation’s support for first-generation students in Texas is why I am writing. We award need-based scholarships in rural counties and stay with each student through graduation.
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Written by Phoenix from the funder’s public filings, its website and your funding profile. Check every fact before you send it.
Every result has a source
Each one shows where it came from and links back to the record. Phoenix ranks and explains. The funders are real records, the application is yours to write, and no match is promised. Nothing reaches a funder without a person putting it there.