Funders

Funders are part of the opportunities module, so they need Solo plan.

A funder is the organisation behind a funding call. Every funding opportunity that can be matched to one links to it, and the link works in both directions: from the opportunity to who is funding it, and from the funder back to everything it has published.

Where you meet a funder

On an opportunity. A funder card sits on the opportunity’s page, and on its drawer when you open it from a list. It opens the funder’s profile without taking you off the opportunity.

In the directory. Opportunities → Funders lists every funder, with its type and country. Search by name in the box at the top, and use Filters to narrow by Type and Country, or to show Verified only funders. The dot on the Filters button shows one is applied.

The funders directory: search, type and country filters, followOpen /a/opportunities/funders in the app

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The ⋮ menu on each row offers three actions:

• Follow — see what following does.
• Find opportunities from this funder — opens the opportunities list already filtered to it.
• View full public profile — opens the funder’s public page in a new tab. That page is part of the Funding Atlas and is addressable by anyone, so it is what you link to when you want to point a colleague at a funder.

FundersOpen in the app

https://actionnetwork.world/a/opportunities/funders

The funder’s profile

A funder’s profile is organised into panels:

Funder DNA. What the platform has learned about the funder: its priorities, its typical grantees, what it avoids, and how it expects applications to be pitched. It is built from the briefs written about that funder, and says how many — Based on 6 briefs — so you can tell a well-evidenced profile from a thin one. A funder nobody has written a brief on has none.

Portfolio. Three figures summarising what the funder has disbursed: Total disbursed, Projects and Years tracked. They come from the funder’s IATI publications, so the panel appears only for funders that publish there, and a funder without it is not a funder without a track record. The figures describe past giving as it was recorded, and say nothing about what it will fund next.

Opportunities from this funder. Every call it has published on the platform.

Recently funded. Projects the funder has backed — a record of what it has actually funded, which is worth setting beside what its guidelines say it funds.

Your organisation’s history with this funder. Shown when you are signed in, and specific to you: how many briefs and proposals your organisation has produced for this funder and where they ended up — Submitted, Funded, Declined, Withdrawn, Pending outcome — plus how many funding relationships are Active and Completed. It is the answer to “have we tried them before?” without going to look.

Following a funder

Follow puts a funder on your list. When a new funding opportunity from it is published on the platform, you receive a notification in the app and an email.

Three things decide whether that actually reaches you:

• It is governed by your Opportunity alerts setting. Follow a funder and switch that setting off, and nothing arrives. See Notifications.
• Only new funding calls trigger it. Following is not a feed of everything a funder does.
• Each opportunity notifies once. If the same call is picked up again later, followers are not told twice.

Things that surprise people

An opportunity with no funder card is not a sign that nobody is funding it. A funder card appears when the opportunity has been linked to one; where it could not be matched there is simply nothing to show.

The same funder can appear more than once, for example under two country variants of one name. Duplicates are consolidated over time, so a funder you looked up before may have been merged into another entry.

Funders is a member surface. The deeper analysis built on top of it — funder intelligence briefs and proposals — needs an organisation plan.