Side by side
- Price
- From $100 a month, paid yearly
- From $39 a month
- People
- Not stated for Free, Premium or Ultimate; Enterprise is “for teams needing 10 users or more”
- 1 seat on Solo, 5 on Team and Consultant
- Exports
- Up to 250 grants a month on monthly Premium, 1,000 on yearly
- CSV files: 1,000, 5,000 or 25,000 rows a month by plan
- What it covers
- Candid search lists 300,000+ grantmaker profiles and 29 million+ nonprofit grants (candid.org/find-funding).
- US private foundations from their e-filed Form 990-PF: 127,950 with a return in the last two years, with 1,613,028 grants on their latest returns
- Free without an account
- Limited search results, basic profile views and one full profile view a month
- Every grant on each foundation’s latest return, application rules, officers, State and cause lists, statistics
- Source
- candid.org/pricing, read November 11, 2026
- IRS Form 990-PF e-file returns, latest read Nov 11, 2026
What is free on each site
Candid (Foundation Directory)
Candid’s blog post of January 20, 2026 says Candid will begin transitioning legacy Foundation Directory users, including Foundation Maps and 990 Finder users, to Candid search.
On the free plan, Candid’s pricing page lists limited search results, basic profile views and one full profile view a month. It describes grant data, “a complete view of giving history”, as part of Premium.
Candid blog, January 20, 2026 and candid.org/pricing, read November 11, 2026
Foundation Lookup, free
- 540grants listed for tax year 2024, each with recipient, place, purpose and amount
- $38.1 millionpaid in grants that year
- $10,000typical grant (median)
Accepts applicationsper its 2024 return, with the contact and rules it gives
Candid (Foundation Directory) plans, from its pricing page
- Free$0Limited search results, basic profile views, one full profile view a month
- Premium, monthly$219 a monthUp to 250 grants and 750 profiles downloaded a month
- Premium, yearly$1,199 a year (listed as $100 a month)Up to 1,000 grants and 5,000 profiles downloaded a month
- Ultimate, yearly$1,699 a year (listed as $142 a month)Everything in Premium, plus compliance reports
- EnterpriseCustom pricingContact sales
From candid.org/pricing, read November 11, 2026. Prices change; check their page for the current ones. Candid is a trademark of its owner. Foundation Lookup is not affiliated with it.
What a Foundation Lookup plan adds
Matching ranks the foundations that funded organizations like yours, open to applications first, and shows the grants behind each one. This is the first match for Girls Incorporated of Metro Denver in Denver, out of 1,794.
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- 63 grants to 25 youth development organizations in Colorado, tax years 2019 to 2024
- 5 grants to 3 organizations in Denver
- All in your range, $1,000 to $50,000
- Accepts applications, per its 2024 return
- Latest grant to an organization like yours: tax year 2024
- Mile High Youth CorpsDenver, CO · tax year 2024 General operating support for programs that offer youth work experience, education, career preparation and life-skills training, benefiting low-income communities. $10,000
- Minds Matter ColoradoDenver, CO · tax year 2021 To support the College Access Mentoring Program in Colorado which connects driven and determined students from low-income families with the people, preparation, and possibilities to succeed in college. $7,500
- Matching for each organization, with the grants behind every match
- Alerts when a new return shows a grant to an organization like yours
- Every year of grants we read, not only the latest
- Saved lists with a status and a note per funder
- CSV exports of foundations and their grants