How we check

Who builds this

naturefunding.org is built and paid for by Restoration Scope, a company that makes monitoring and reporting software for restoration projects. We say so openly because a directory that hides who runs it is hard to trust.

• No paid listings. Funders cannot pay to be listed, ranked or highlighted.
• No ranking by who pays. Results are sorted by deadline, soonest first. Whether a funder uses Restoration Scope has no effect on its listing.
• No account, no email wall. Search and filters run in your browser.

What we list

Funding for nature restoration and conservation projects: forests and land, rivers and wetlands, coasts and the sea, and the species that live there. We list a programme when its own website says who can apply, where and how. A few listings, such as paid tree-planting partnerships, are not grants; their summaries say so.

We leave out, for now:

• funders whose website blocks automated reading, because we could not re-check their facts every day;
• prizes for past work, and programmes whose page only describes an old or suspended round;
• second rounds that are by invitation only, since the first round is where you apply;
• anything we only found in another directory and could not confirm on the funder’s own page.

So a missing funder may simply not be checked yet. Tell us about it and we will look.

Where the facts come from

Each deadline, amount, eligibility rule and region is read from the funder’s own website, or the website of the organisation that runs the programme for it: the call page, the guidelines or the programme page. Next to each fact we show:

• the page it came from, linked;
• the exact words on that page;
• the date we last checked it, on a tag like Checked 1 Nov 2026.

Other directories and funding guides are useful for finding funders we have missed. We never copy a listing, a date or an amount from them.

What we never guess

• Deadlines. If the funder’s page doesn’t give a date, we don’t either. “Not stated” means the page doesn’t say, not that there is no limit.
• How to apply. Some funders take open applications, some only fund through partners such as country programmes, and some pick their own grantees. We label each one plainly, so you don’t write a proposal to a funder that will never read it.

What the labels mean

Is a call open?

Open

Taking applications now, until the deadline shown.

Rolling

Taking applications any time, with no deadline.

Upcoming

Announced, but not open yet.

Closed

The last call we found has passed its deadline. Check the funder’s page for the next round.

No call found

We found no open or announced call on the funder’s page when we last read it.

The finder lists open, rolling and upcoming calls first. Closed and no-call listings sit in a folded list under them, headed “Not open now”.

Funders you don’t apply to directly

Through a partner

You apply to a partner, such as a country programme, not to the funder.

Invitation only

The funder picks its grantees. Don’t send a proposal.

The checked tag

Checked 1 Nov 2026

The last day we read the funder’s page and found the words we quote.

Checked 20 Sep 2026

Over 30 days since that check. Confirm on the funder’s page before you rely on it.

How often we check

1. Every day, a job reads the funder pages that are due: most every day, the rest every week or month.
2. If a page still shows the words we quoted, those facts get a new checked date.
3. If a page changed or can’t be read, the date stays where it was. A change becomes a proposed edit, and it goes live only after a person approves it.
4. When a deadline date passes, the finder shows the call as closed. It doesn’t compare times of day, so on the last day check the funder’s cutoff time.
5. After 30 days without a check, the tag turns amber: Checked 20 Sep 2026
6. After 90 days without a check, the listing leaves the finder until we can confirm it again. Its page stays up, marked out of date.

Most recent check: 1 November 2026.

Corrections

Every programme page has a Report a problem link and, for funders, a Correct this listing link. Both open a pre-filled issue on GitHub, which needs a free account. We change a listing only after checking the correction against the funder’s own page.

For anything else on the site, such as a missing funder or a broken page:

Report a problem

Open data

Our data is licensed CC BY 4.0: you can reuse it, including commercially, if you credit naturefunding.org.

• data.json: every programme, call and fact with its source, quote and checked date.
• data.csv: one row per call, plus one row for each programme with no call, for spreadsheets.
• Atom feed: every call with its status; a call that opens, closes or moves its deadline shows up as a new entry.
• health.json: the latest run of the checking job: when it ran, and how many pages it read, found changed or could not read.

Quotes from funder pages are their authors’ words and are not covered by our licence; we keep them short and always link the source. The code is MIT-licensed and public on GitHub.

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