• Agriculture, fishing, and forestry+
• Arts and culture
  • Art services
  • Artist’s services
  • Art administration
  • Arts councils
  • Arts education
  • Arts exchange
• Cultural awareness
  • Sacred sites
  • Traditional knowledge
• Folk arts
• Historical activities
  • Commemorations
  • Genealogy
  • Historic preservation
  • War memorials
• Humanities
  • Art history
  • History
  • Languages
  • Linguistics
  • Literature and writing
  • Philosophy
• Museums
  • Art museums
  • Children’s museums
  • Ethnic museums
  • History museums
  • Maritime museums
  • Natural history museums
  • Planetariums
  • Science Museums
  • Sport and hobby museums
• Performing arts
  • Circus arts
  • Dance
  • Ballet
  • Choreography
  • Folk and ethnic dance
  • Jazz and tap dance
  • Modern dance
  • Music
    • Composition
    • Folk and indigenous music
    • Musical ensembles and groups
    • Opera
    • Orchestral music
    • Vocal music
  • Performance art
  • Performing arts education
  • Spoken word
  • Theater
    • Musical theater
    • Playwriting
  • Public arts
  • Visual arts
    • Architecture
    • Art conservation
    • Ceramic arts
    • Design
    • Drawing
    • Painting
    • Photographic
    • Printmaking
    • Sculpture
    • Textile arts
• Community and economic development
  • Business and industry+*
    • Business promotion
    • Construction
    • Corporate social responsibility
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Manufacturing
    • Mining and resource extraction
    • Real estate
    • Tourism
    • Trade
  • Community improvement
    • Community beautification
      • Gardening
      • Landscaping
    • Community organizing
    • Community service
    • Neighborhood associations
  • Economic development
    • Employment
      • Job benefits
      • Job counseling
      • Job creation and workforce development
      • Job retraining
      • Job training
      • Organized labor
      • Pensions
    • Rural development
    • Urban development
      • Bicycling and pedestrian-orientated development
      • Green building
      • Public transportation
      • Urban planning
      • Urban renewal
      • Urban sprawl
  • Financial services
    • Anti-predatory lending
    • Banking
    • Credit unions
    • Development finance
      • Community development finance
      • Microfinance
      • Sustainable finance
    • Financial counseling
    • Home financing
    • Insurance
    • Investment services
  • Housing development
    • Foreclosure prevention
    • Home ownership
    • Housing loss prevention
    • Housing rehabilitation
    • Public housing
    • Tenants’ organizations
  • Sustainable development
• Education:
  • Adult education
    • Basic instruction and remedial instruction
      • Adult literacy
      • Adult numeracy
      • High school equivalency
    • Continuing education
    • ESL and second language acquisition
  • Early childhood education
  • Educational services
    • College preparation
    • Computer literacy
    • Cooperative education
    • E-learning
    • Educational exchanges
    • Educational software
    • Educational testing
    • Out-of-school learning
    • Parent-teach involvement
    • Reading promotion
    • Student retention
    • Tutoring
  • Educational Management
  • Elementary and secondary education:
    • Bilingual education
    • Charter school education
    • Child educational development
    • Elementary education
    • Gifted education
    • Middle school education
    • Multicultural education
    • STEM education
    • Secondary education
  • Equal opportunity in education
  • Graduate and professional education
    • Business education
    • Law Education
    • Medical education
    • Nursing education
    • Social work education
    • Teacher education
  • Higher education
    • Community college education
    • Undergraduate education
    • University education
  • Student services
    • Alumni relations
    • Sororities and fraternities
  • Vocational education:
    • Vocational post-secondary education
    • Vocational secondary education
• Environment
  • Biodiversity
    • Forest preservation
      • Forest management
      • Rainforests
      • Reforestation
    • Plant biodiversity
      • Botanical gardens
      • Invasive plant species
    • Wildlife biodiversity
      • Aquariums
      • Aquatic wildlife protection
      • Bird preservation
      • Endangered species protection
      • Invasive animal species
      • Wildlife rehabilitation
      • Wildlife sanctuaries
    • Zoos
  • Climate change
  • Domesticated animals
    • Animal training
    • Animal welfare
      • Animal adoptions
      • Animal population control
      • Animal rescue and rehabilitation
      • Humane education
      • Research on animals
      • Vegetarianism
    • Human-animal interactions
    • Veterinary medicine
  • Environmental education
    • Environmental studies
    • Nature education
    • Outdoor education
  • Environmental justice
  • Natural resources
    • Air quality
    • Energy resources
      • Energy efficiency
      • Fossil fuels
      • Nuclear energy
      • Renewable energy
    • Hazardous waste management
      • Radiation control
      • Toxic substance control
    • Land resources
      • Deserts
      • Grasslands
      • Highlands
      • Land degradation
    • Solid waste management
      • Composting
      • Recycling
    • Water resources
      • Coral reefs
      • Groundwater
      • Oceans and coastal waters
      • Rivers and lakes
      • Water conservations
      • Water pollution
      • Wetlands
• Health
  • Disease control+
  • Health care access
  • Health care administration and financing+
  • Health care quality
  • Holistic medicine
  • In-patient medical care+
  • Medical specialties+
  • Medical support services+
  • Mental health care+
  • Nursing care+
  • Out-patient medical care+
  • Public health+
  • Rehabilitation+
  • Reproduction health care+
  • Traditional medicine and healing
• Human rights
  • Antidiscrimination+
  • Diversity and intergroup relations
  • Individual liberties+
  • Justice rights+
  • Social rights+
• Human services
  • Basic and emergency aid+
  • Family Services
    • Adolescent parenting
    • Adult day care
    • Child welfare
      • Adoption
      • Child care
      • Child development
      • Foster care
    • Family counseling
    • Family disability resources
    • In-home aid and personal assistance
    • Parent education
    • Single parent support
  • Human services information
  • Human services management
  • Job services+
  • Personal services+
  • Shelter and residential care+
  • Special population support
    • Developmental disability services
    • Homeless services
    • Immigrant services
    • Independent living for people with disabilities
    • Senior services
    • Women’s services
  • Youth development
    • Agriculture for youth
    • Civics for youth
    • Community services for youth
    • Economics for youth
    • Religion for youth
    • Scouting programs
    • Youth mentoring
      • Adult and child mentoring
      • Intergenerational mentoring
      • Youth peer mentoring
    • Youth organizing
    • Youth services
• Information and Communications+
  • Communication media+
  • Information communications technology+
    • Applications software
    • Telecommunications
      • Mobile communications
  • Libraries+
  • Media access and policy+
    • Information and media literacy
  • News and public information+
• International relations+
• Philanthropy+
• Public affairs+
• Public safety+
• Religion+
• Science+
• Social sciences+
• Sports and recreation+
• Unknown or not classified

• Age Groups
  • Adults+
  • Children and youth+
    • Adolescents
    • Children
    • Preteens
• Ethnic and racial groups+
  • Indigenous peoples+
    • American Indians
• Family relationships+
• Gender and Sexual Identity+
• Health+
  • Substance abusers
• Religious groups+
  • Tribal and indigenous religious groups
• Social and economic status
  • At-risk youth
    • Dropouts
    • Out-of-home youth
  • Economically disadvantaged people
    • Extremely poor people
    • Homeless people
    • Low-income people
    • Work poor
• Immigrants and migrants+
  • Internally displaced people
• Incarnated people+
• Nomadic people
• Victims and oppressed people+
  • Victims of conflict and war
  • Victims of crime and abuse
  • Victims of disaster
• Work status and occupations+
  • Academics:
    • Researchers
    • Students
    • Teachers

• Cash Grants
  • Block grants
• Contracts
• Employee matching gifts
• Employee volunteer services
• Employee-related scholarships
• Foundation-administered program awards
• Grants to individuals
• In-kind gifts
  • Donated art
  • Donated equipment
  • Donated land
  • Donated products
  • Use of facilities
• Loan to individuals
• Matching grants
• Mission-related investments
  • Cash MRIs
• Officers and trustees discretionary grants
• Pledges
• Pro bono services (many options)
• Program-related investments (many options)
  • PRI business start-ups and expansions
• Promissory notes
• Stock transfers and certificates

For most searches, we can utilized this search criteria to hone in one specific type of grantmakers/donors. Maybe you want funding from a specific source (e.g. a family foundation v. a corporate sponsorship)
(*searched for only ‘grantmaker’ s, selected options given below)

• Charitable gift funds
  • Commercial gift funds
  • Diasporas funds
  • Donor-advised funds
  • Federated funds
  • Field of Interest/Focus funds
  • Tribal funds
  • Venture philanthropy funds
  • Women’s funds
• Corporate giving programs
• Fiscally-sponsored organizations or programs
• Giving cycles
• Governments and agencies
• Non-governmental organizations
  • Community foundations
    • Geographic affiliates of community foundation
  • Community trusts
  • Foundations
    • Company-sponsored foundations
    • Family foundations
    • Governmentally-linked foundations
    • Independent foundations
    • Operating foundations
  • Public charities
• Religious institutions