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For UK charities · grants & tenders in one feedMost grant tools hand you a longer list. GrantNest matches open UK grants and public-sector tenders to your charity's actual profile, checks whether you're eligible before you read them, and verifies each open call on the funder's own page. Fewer, better-fitting opportunities, across grants and contracts.
Free instant taster. No account needed, no card. Plans from £19/month.
The short version
AI grant matching compares your charity's profile against live funding opportunities and surfaces the ones that fit, so a fundraiser-of-one stops scrolling hundreds of listings that were never open to a charity like yours. The idea is simple; the value is in how honestly it's done.
The weak version of matching just ranks everything by a fit percentage and leaves you to sort out the rest. A "94% match" you're barred from is still an afternoon you'll never get back. GrantNest is built to leave things out: eligibility is checked up front, so what lands on your shortlist is what you could realistically win, with the reasoning shown so you can see why you qualify, and what would rule you out.
How it works
You build your profile once. GrantNest matches against it on the dimensions that decide whether an application is even worth starting.
Your charitable purpose and beneficiaries, matched to each funder's stated remit, so adjacent-but-wrong causes don't clutter the feed.
Where you work, checked against the funder's geographic scope, UK-wide, not England-only.
Your annual income against the funder's size thresholds, one of the most common quiet disqualifiers.
Charity, CIO, CIC and the rest, matched to what each funder will and won't fund, because a lot of "great matches" fail on entity type alone.
Why GrantNest
Matching to a profile is table stakes now. These are the parts that save your team real hours, and that we've built the product around.
Charities that deliver commissioned services live on contract income too, and it hides in procurement portals most grant tools never touch. GrantNest matches open tenders from Find a Tender to your profile alongside your grants. Tender matching is in beta while we tighten precision, and it draws from Find a Tender rather than every UK portal, but it's a job the grants-only tools don't do at all.
For each open call we show you, we check the funder's own page that the round is actually open, and stamp it with the date we checked. Directories profile funders whether or not anything is open; news feeds don't re-verify. The failure mode we're attacking is the one that wastes your week, a match that looks live but closed a fortnight ago.
If your charity fails a funder's binding rule, income cap, entity type, region, blackout period, it's screened out and flagged, with the reasoning shown and sourced. You get a shortlist with the working-out, not a long list you have to second-guess.
Pricing
Because GrantNest is built AI-first rather than on big manual research teams, matching stays affordable for mid-sized charities. One grant or tender won pays for it many times over.
£19 /mo, billed annually
Full precision-matched grants and tenders, eligibility checks, unlimited matches, and an application checklist and an editable opening per opportunity. Founding rate locked for as long as you stay.
Become a founding member (£228/yr)Prefer to try first? Run a free taster, or start free with a weekly matched email and a limited live feed. GrantNest Plus is £24/month billed annually (£29 monthly).
Being straight with you
Our tender matching draws from Find a Tender, the UK government's official above-threshold notice service, and the matching is in beta while we tighten precision. Treat it as a strong first filter, not a comprehensive sweep of every procurement portal.
GrantNest gives each match an application checklist and an editable opening to build on, a running start, not a machine-written bid. Full AI-assisted drafting is on our roadmap, not shipped. If a first draft written for you is what you need today, we'll point you to tools that do that, honestly.
FAQ
It compares your charity's profile, cause, region, income band and legal form, against live funding opportunities and surfaces the ones that fit, instead of a long list you sift by hand. GrantNest goes further: it checks eligibility up front so what you see is what you could realistically win, and each open call is verified on the funder's own page.
Three things: it matches public-sector tenders from Find a Tender (matching in beta) alongside grants in one feed; it verifies each open call on the funder's own page with a date; and it screens eligibility as hard gates with the reasoning shown, rather than only ranking by a fit percentage.
There's a free tier (a weekly matched email plus a limited live feed), GrantNest Plus at £24/month billed annually (£29 monthly), and a founding-member rate of £19/month billed annually for the first cohort. Flat and transparent, no request-a-quote.
No. It gives each matched opportunity an application checklist and an editable opening to build on, a running start, not a machine-written bid. Full AI-assisted drafting is on our roadmap, not shipped today.