You might have noticed that we now have two flavours of Fundtracker. Over the last year, we have heard from many of you that while you needed a service like ours, the realities of a non-profit budget meant that you couldn’t afford it. It’s because of that feedback that we are happy to announce the launch of … Fundtracker! (We’ve renamed our previous service “Fundtracker Pro”).
Fundtracker has all of the information that many non-profits need. It contains a comprehensive list of all of the granting foundations and government funding programs, both federal and provincial. It also has over 500 corporate funding programs, most of which area available across Canada. The main different between Fundtracker and Fundtracker Pro is that Fundtracker Pro includes detailed information on all of the “non-granting” foundations.
So, what is a non-granting foundation, you might ask? While most of them are public foundations that exist for the purposes of collecting money from the public and distributing it to a specific organization or cause (think of a hospital foundation or a foundation to fight a specific type of cancer), there are other possibilities as well. They could be private foundations that do not accept unsolicited applications, inactive foundations or just private or public foundations that have no staff and give out less than $5,000 per year.
So, if your non-profit, like many, survives by careful and clever use of grants, Fundtracker is the right tool for your needs. It is more complete and more up-to-date than anything else out there. On the other hand, if you’re a fundraiser and you need that extra information about another foundation that works in your city, or you need to know who is on a board with who, then Fundtracker Pro is the tool you’ll want.
