Grant guide
Grant data provenance for funding alerts
Grant data provenance is the record of where a funding fact came from, when it was fetched and what changed before it reached a user-facing alert.
Teams deciding where to spend application time
Operations leads, consultants and funding teams that need to trust public-source grant records before acting on them.
Make the first review more concrete
Understand how funding alert data should record source URLs, timestamps and caveats.
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.
Store the official source URL, fetched timestamp, source name, raw fields, normalised fields and parser status for every reviewed opportunity.
Keep known gaps visible, such as missing deadline fields, ambiguous geography, closed programme status or a source page that changed after fetch.
Attach provenance to alerts, saved opportunities and draft notes so reviewers can move from AI-assisted summary back to the original evidence.
Readiness checks
- Source URL and fetched timestamp recorded.
- Raw source fields retained separately from normalised fields.
- Parser warnings and missing fields visible.
- AI summary and fit reasoning marked as inference.
- Human review status recorded before live alert use.
Eligibility caveats
- Provenance is not a funder endorsement or guarantee of current eligibility.
- A clean source record can still become stale if the funder changes the page.
- Automated fetches need failure states and human review for ambiguous records.
Source references
Use the framework to ground metadata, data quality, provenance, caveats and review practices for public-source funding data.
Official sourceGovernment Data Quality Framework guidanceUse the guidance to explain metadata, audit information, quality rules and data-quality dimensions without treating scraped data as perfect.
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 sourceGovernment grant data standardUse the 360Giving-linked open standard as a source for grant data fields, transparency and source-backed monitoring terminology.
Related FundingLens pages
Monitor public funding sources with provenance, fetch cadence, failure modes and source-cited opportunity records.
Draft notes guideSource-cited draft notes for grant applicationsUse AI draft notes for grant preparation while keeping official source citations, caveats and human review clearly visible.
GOV.UK Find a grantGOV.UK Find a grant monitoringGOV.UK Find a Grant monitoring with official source links, checked dates, eligibility fields and deadline caveats.
AI funding intelligenceGrant alerts that explain fit before they hit your inboxFundingLens monitors public funding sources, scores fit, explains eligibility caveats and previews deadline alerts before anything is sent.