Foundation Research Without the 990 Rabbit Hole
Find the Foundations That Actually Fund Orgs Like Yours.
Most nonprofits find funders by Googling or combing through 990 tax filings. Bloomwell gives you a searchable database of 637 verified foundations — filtered by what they fund, where, and at what grant size.
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How do nonprofits research and find foundation grant funders?
Foundation funder research typically begins with IRS Form 990 filings — the annual tax disclosures that private foundations are required to submit, which include a complete list of grants awarded in the prior year. Pulling 990s manually through ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer or the IRS website is the most common free approach, but it requires identifying relevant foundations first, locating the correct filing year, and extracting grant data from a multi-page document — a process that can take 20 to 40 minutes per foundation. For a prospect list of 20 funders, that is a full workday before any writing begins. More efficient practitioners layer database tools over 990 data to search by grantee mission, geographic focus, or grant size, then use the raw 990 only to verify history. Bloomwell AI builds your funder prospect list from aggregated 990 data matched to your organization's profile automatically.
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Common questions
How many foundation funders does Bloomwell have in its database?
Bloomwell currently has 637 verified foundation funder records, searchable by mission focus, geography, grant size range, and NTEE code. The database also includes 9,700+ federal and state grant opportunities.
How is Bloomwell different from pulling 990 tax filings on GuideStar?
990 filings tell you what a foundation funded in the past — but reading them is time-consuming and requires interpretation. Bloomwell structures that research for you: searchable by cause area, geography, and grant size, with giving history surfaced without requiring you to read raw tax documents.
Can I search for foundations that fund organizations in my specific city or county?
Yes. Bloomwell's funder search filters by geography — state, region, and in many cases city or county — so you can identify foundations with local or regional funding priorities that match where your organization operates.
What does "verified" mean for funder records?
Verified means the funder record has been reviewed for accuracy — active giving status, correct contact information, and current funding focus areas. We remove foundations that have closed, paused grantmaking, or significantly shifted their priorities.
Does Bloomwell include community foundations and donor-advised funds?
Bloomwell includes community foundations in its database. Donor-advised funds are generally not searchable as individual funders since grant decisions are made by individual donors rather than foundation staff — we focus on funders with organized grantmaking programs.