WayfinderFunding intelligence that thinks like a grant strategist.
First it understands your work. Then it finds who funds it. Wayfinder reads what you actually do, points you to funders you would never have found on your own, and tells you which ones to skip.
Ask for a beta invitationIt understands your work before it finds your funding.
Most tools hand you a search box and wish you luck. Wayfinder starts the way a good advisor starts a first call: it understands what you actually do, then takes your work apart into its fundable threads. A single project is never one fundable thing. It is many, and each thread leads to a different funder. Here is what that looks like.
A climate innovation fund
Funds energy access, not agriculture. The same work enters as a power story, not a farming one.
A research foundation
Wants evidence partners, not implementers. Your data becomes the study.
A social-innovation award
Judges on jobs created. The same work, a different case.
The funder you would never have searched for.
You describe your work, and it points you somewhere you did not know to look.
The unexpected one is a democracy foundation that funds cross-group dialogue. Your community-organizing model is a genuine fit, and it is not a funder you would ever have searched for.
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Sometimes it is you. Sometimes it is your partner.
A funder you cannot approach on your own, the right partner can. It reads your partnerships and names the applicant.
This funder only accepts universities and research institutes, not implementing organizations.
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The angle you had not named.
It does not just find funders for the work you described. It shows you a side of your own work you had not put into words.
A global water-innovation prize. It funds water technology, not food, so you enter as a water-efficiency innovator whose system happens to grow food. Same work, a new door.
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An assistant says yes. An advisor tells you the truth.
Ask any other AI whether to go for a grant and it cheers you on. Wayfinder tells you no when it is no, and why, before you lose a week.
Health is core to this funder, but the honest call is caution. They publish no criteria for this track, and their giving history skews heavily toward Greece and the US.
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Five minutes to set up. Then it works while you don't.
- Tell it about your work.Upload a proposal, your about page, an annual report. It reads them and drafts your profile. You correct anything it got wrong.
- Get matched, ranked, and explained.Strong, Medium, or Stretch, each with the reasoning in plain language and the deadline in view.
- Stay matched.New calls arrive every week, rescanned against your profile every day. One email: what is new and what is closing.
it searches in the language funders use, not just yours
“drip irrigation”
One keyword, understood the way funders write their calls.
Not a promise. A product, in beta.
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“When I started as a Director of Foundation and Corporate Relations in 2014, I told people my job was 50% research, 35% building relationships, and 15% writing. This platform opened up 50% of my time to focus on what matters - the relationships with partners and potential funders. And I’m no longer wondering, “Is this really a good match?” Within the first week of using Wayfinder, I applied for two opportunities I didn’t know were available to us. This platform is more than a time-saver for prospect research; it is a gateway to sustainable relationships.”
Mollie, Portugal
Built for the people who do the work. By people who know it.
Fundraising is so much more than finding funders. It is the relationships, the proposals, the case only you can make. But prospecting quietly eats the hours those things deserve.
Wayfinder does that groundwork for anyone raising money. A one-person shop gets an advisor it could not otherwise afford. A full grants team gets its hours back for the work that actually wins the money.
It comes from the team behind Impact Funding, with over fifteen years in the impact and development sectors, and a funding newsletter already read across the field.
Ask for a beta invitationWe are currently onboarding a handful of organizations at a time.
Wayfinder does not write your application, and it does not promise you will win. Some weeks it will tell you there was nothing worth your time. That is the point of an advisor you can trust.