Everyone is chasing the same donors. Most of them were never yours.
Institutional grants are one funding pathway, and the most crowded one. This free diagnostic scores your organization across seven capacities, maps them against the funding rules where you are registered and where you work, and names the funding you can actually reach today.
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Institutional grants
Multi-year · heavy compliance
Fit scoreNeeds three years of audited accounts
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Zakat and endowment funds
Annual cycles · faith-aligned giving
Fit scoreOpen to you today
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Diaspora networks
Recurring · relationship-led
Fit scoreOpen to you today
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Corporate partnerships
Cash and in-kind · brand-led
Fit scoreNeeds reporting a company can use
No credit card. An indicative snapshot, not a promise of funding.
Why this exists
You are probably not short of opportunities. You are short of the ones you can win.
Most nonprofits in this region hold exactly one funding pathway: the institutional grant. Everyone is queuing for it, and the queue got longer when USAID closed. Meanwhile companies, Zakat and endowment funds, diaspora networks, public giving and earned income all fund nonprofits, and each one asks for something different. A crowdfunding campaign and an EU delegation grant are not the same job. Which of these your organization can actually hold depends on what it is built to do, and almost nobody has ever worked that out for you.
What you get at the end
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A map of the funding you can reach
Every pathway shown open or closed, with the specific capability holding each closed one shut.
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The single highest-leverage move
Not a list of twenty recommendations. The one change that opens the most doors.
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Your readiness across seven capacities
Each one scored one to five, with the evidence behind the score and how confident the model is.
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A report you can share
A link you can send to your board, your team, or a funder.
Three steps, about 10 minutes
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Step
Tell us about your organization
Where you are registered, where you work, and what you do. This is what makes the funding map specific to you instead of generic.
A Syrian organization registered in Germany and operating inside Syria gets a different answer from one registered in Damascus.
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Step
Answer in plain language
A conversation, not a form. Answer the way you would explain it to a colleague. Upload documents if you have them, skip that if you do not.
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Step
Read your report
Your funding map, your capacity profile, and what to do next.
Seven capacities, because different funding asks for different things
A crowdfunding campaign needs a story and the capacity to tell it. A corporate partnership needs reporting a company can put in its annual review. Institutional grants need financial systems and evidence of results. Zakat funding has its own eligibility rules. The seven capacities below are how the diagnostic works out which of these your organization can hold today, and which one is closest to reach.
- Governance and board leadership
- Strategy and adaptive capacity
- Programs and operational capacity
- Financial management
- People and staff management
- Monitoring, evaluation and learning
- External relations and resource mobilization
Where the scoring comes from, and how current it is
The funding rules come from documented regulator and donor sources, each one carrying the source it came from and the date it was last verified. Every score shows what it is based on and how confident the model is, so you can see the basis and tell us where we got it wrong.
What this is not
A prediction of whether you will win a grant. A validated psychometric test. A guarantee of funding. It is an indicative snapshot of organizational readiness and the funding that readiness opens. We would rather say that plainly here than let you discover it later.
Common questions
Questions people actually ask
Does it cost anything?
No. The diagnostic and the report are free. There is no trial and no card.
How long does it take?
About 10 minutes. You can leave partway through and come back.
We are not formally registered. Can we still use it?
Yes. You will get a map of the channels open to an unregistered group, which is a different map, not an error message.
Could a funder see our report?
Only if you send it to them. We never share a report with a funder, and we never will without your explicit, revocable consent.
See which funding was yours all along.
Free, about 10 minutes, and the report is yours to keep and to share.
Start freeFunder or intermediary? Get in touch and we will walk you through it.