Charity grants
Charity grant alerts and eligibility checks
Charity grant searches work best when charitable purposes, public benefit, reporting status and funder outcomes are checked before drafting.
Teams deciding where to spend application time
registered charities checking public and charitable funding against legal form, beneficiaries and project themes
Make the first review more concrete
Find grants and funding alerts for charity grants.
Review workflow
What FundingLens helps you do
Keep source facts, caveats and next actions together so your team can decide what deserves attention before application work starts.
Confirm the charity's legal status, registration details, purposes and reporting position before treating a fund as a strong match.
Check whether the project advances the charity's purposes for public benefit and whether the funder needs accounts, annual return evidence or trustee approvals.
Where a charity is funding or partnering with another organisation, record due diligence, grant terms, monitoring and risk questions early.
Readiness checks
- Charity number or exemption/exception evidence recorded.
- Annual return and accounts status checked where relevant.
- Project fits charitable purposes and funder outcomes.
- Trustee or delegated approval route is known.
- Risk, safeguarding and monitoring requirements are noted.
Eligibility caveats
- FundingLens explains fit signals, eligibility caveats and next steps; it does not promise funding success or application approval.
- Always check the official funder page before acting because deadlines, match-funding rules and eligible costs can change.
- AI output stays separate from verified source facts and needs human review before it is used in an application.
Source references
Use Charity Commission guidance to check whether accounts, annual returns and reporting evidence are current before treating a charity as application-ready.
Official sourceCharity Commission grant-making guidanceThe guidance explains why grant decisions need purpose fit, risk assessment, appropriate checks, grant terms and monitoring.
Official sourceGOV.UK Find a grantUse the official UK grant listing to verify live eligibility, deadlines and funder guidance. FundingLens records the source URL and fetched date when it reviews an item.
Official sourceNational Lottery Community Fund eligibility guidanceThe National Lottery Community Fund explains that many programmes expect a constituted group or organisation and lists common accepted and excluded applicant types.
Related FundingLens pages
FundingLens monitors public funding sources, scores fit, explains eligibility caveats and previews deadline alerts before anything is sent.
Eligibility reviewEligibility checks with evidence, caveats and confidenceCheck grant eligibility against organisation profile data, source fields and AI caveats without treating AI as final legal advice.
Application prepApplication-readiness checklists for each funding opportunityTurn saved funding opportunities into readiness checklists covering eligibility, documents, governance, budget and deadline risk.