How is SciRise different?
The funding strategy layer
before grant tools.
Grant tools find open opportunities and run the grant workflow. SciRise prioritizes where to spend time and relationship capital.
Finding grants and funding strategy are different jobs.
Grant tools help you apply. SciRise helps you decide which funders are worth the relationship.
| Find and applyDirectories, open calls, and the application processInstrumentl · Candid · AI tools | Funding strategySciRise CapitalGraph and FunderRank | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | A match score with no published outcome test | A ranking tested on outcomes in a later year |
| What it holds | Funder profiles, open calls, and 990 giving histories | 990 and 990-PF filings, federal award and contract records, global development funding, audits, disclosures and websites, resolved to the same organizations.See coverage |
No named product was tested. The comparison is against matching on funders' published mission statements, which SciRise built and scored on the same data.
What the graph answers.
The questions funding teams ask before they write a single application.
Funder prediction
Who is most likely to start giving to us.
Peer benchmarking
How we compare to organizations funded like us.
Intermediary flows
Which DAF sponsors and regranters fund our field, and where attribution stops.
Ecosystem and landscape mapping
Where capital concentrates in a mission or state.
Used together
SciRise decides where to spend relationship capital. Once the targets are set, grant tools do what they do best: surface the open calls for those funders and run the application workflow.
Side by side, capability by capability.
Grant tools and SciRise do different work. Here is where each one fits.
| Capability | Raw filings | Directories and grant search | SciRise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surfaces source filings and documents | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Resolves free-text names to verified organizations | No | Partial | Yes |
| Identifies DAF sponsors, fiscal sponsors, and regranters | No | Partial | Yes |
| Connects foundation, federal, global, and financial data on the same organizations | No | No | Yes |
| Shows multi-year funding patterns | Manual | Partial | Yes |
| Ranks funders, tested on a later year's real outcomes | No | No | Yes |
Patent pending
FunderRank: Prediction, Not Description
FunderRank predicts who your next funder is likely to be, ranked on the public grant record and tested on a later year.
In validation, among nonprofits that added a new funder, SciRise placed at least one eventual new funder in its top 10 for 39% of those nonprofits, more than 10 times the top-10 hit rate of matching on funders' published mission statements (p < 0.0001).
39%
Top-10 hit rate
For nonprofits that added a new funder, at least one eventual new funder was in the FunderRank top 10.
10x+
Stronger than matching on published mission statements
Versus the top-10 hit rate of matching on funders' published mission statements.
Test setup: nonprofits with three or more existing funders; two years of training data, one holdout year; replicated across three test windows. The hit rate counts the nonprofits that added a new funder in the holdout year. Repeat grants excluded: the model must predict funders new to the organization. Funders SciRise does not list, such as pure donor-advised fund sponsors, are not counted. Baseline: AI matching of each nonprofit's mission to funders' published mission statements, scored on the same data.
See our full validation methodology →
CapitalGraph: One Connected Map of Mission-Driven Capital
Foundation giving, federal funding, and global development funding are recorded in separate systems that were never built to connect. SciRise resolves them to the same organizations, so one map shows who funds what, through whom, across a mission. Across U.S. sources, that map holds 1.5M organizations and 15M grants, awards, and contracts, with a global development funding layer on top.
1.5M
Resolved organizations
15M
Grants, awards, contracts
2.6M
U.S. funder-to-recipient links
$380B
Matched funding, 2024 basis
10M
Foundation Grant Records
From IRS filings, including available tax-year 2025 records
4.6M
Federal Awards & Contracts
From USAspending through June 2026
19,000+
Grantmaking Entities
With extracted grant detail
2.2M
Nonprofit Annual Filings
With full financials and revenue lines
7.5M
Contact Records
Publicly disclosed officer, director, and organization contacts
Coverage current as of August 2026. Matched funding combines each foundation's most recent filing with federal fiscal year 2024 awards and contracts. U.S. sources; global development funding is a separate layer. See full data coverage →
Know who to approach before you apply.
See FunderRank and CapitalGraph run on your own organization or a field you care about: the funders most likely to give next, the peers funded like you, and where capital concentrates in your mission.