Funder profile guide
How to build an organisation profile for grant matching
A useful organisation profile gives matching software enough factual context to reject poor-fit opportunities before a team spends time reading them.
Teams deciding where to spend application time
Teams setting up FundingLens or standardising grant-search criteria across staff, trustees, directors or consultants.
Make the first review more concrete
Create an organisation profile for better grant matching and eligibility checks.
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.
Capture stable facts: legal form, registration numbers, locations served, beneficiaries, themes, turnover, governance evidence and typical project size.
Capture capacity signals: staff or volunteer capacity, accounts readiness, policies, bank evidence, partners, delivery permissions and previous funding constraints.
Keep profile fields editable because eligibility can change when the organisation incorporates, registers as a charity, expands geography or takes on new project types.
Readiness checks
- Legal form and registration details complete.
- Geography, beneficiaries and themes selected.
- Funding size and eligible cost preferences added.
- Evidence readiness and policies recorded.
- Website and public summary checked for enrichment.
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 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.
Official sourceSport England Movement FundUse the Movement Fund guidance to check not-for-profit status, governance evidence, award size and whether the project helps more people get active.
Related FundingLens pages
AI-assisted grant matching for organisations that need source-cited fit reasoning, confidence, caveats and human review status.
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.
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.