GrantBridge vs Funds Online, Funding Central, GrantNav & GrantFinder

Important context: "Funding Central" was the name of NCVO's funding portal, which closed in 2021. Idox launched My Funding Central to fill that gap. See Sources for references.

GrantBridge (what it claims publicly)

GrantBridge's pricing page lists: personalised grant matches, a grants workspace, deadline tracking & reminders, and an application workspace, alongside its subscription price. [S1]

Differentiator (neutral framing): GrantBridge is positioned as a workflow tool (discovery + managing the work), rather than only a directory.

Funds Online (Directory of Social Change)

Funds Online is a paid online database from the Directory of Social Change covering 8,000+ funders, including grant-making charities, companies and statutory sources such as central and local government and the EU. Its information is described as gathered, quality-checked and written by an in-house team of expert researchers, and the product highlights a fast, intuitive search alongside a user dashboard for tracking funding applied for, saving searches and saving funders. Published pricing starts from £175 + VAT per week for a single user licence, which is a per-licence model rather than a flat per-organisation price. [S7, S8, S9]

Differentiator (neutral framing): Funds Online is positioned as a funder discovery and prospect-research database with light tracking. Its public pages do not describe team collaboration, application drafting, or an application workspace.

Funding Central (via My Funding Central)

NCVO's Funding Central was discontinued in 2021; Idox launched My Funding Central as the successor service for charities/VCSE, describing new streams being added daily and a target audience of organisations under specific income thresholds. [S2, S3]

Differentiator (neutral framing): This is a funding database/service positioned for VCSE users, rather than an awarded-grants open data explorer.

GrantNav (360Giving)

GrantNav is described by 360Giving as a free-to-use search engine that brings together open, comparable grants data published by funders in the 360Giving Data Standard. It is explicitly described as data about awarded grants, and it supports searching, filtering, and downloading. [S4, S5]

Differentiator (neutral framing): GrantNav is optimised for understanding funding flows and outcomes (where money has gone), not for managing live application workflows.

GrantFinder (Idox)

GrantFinder describes itself as a funding database supported by a team of researchers who "monitor, digest, verify and report daily" on thousands of funding sources, and it highlights "news and alerts" for new/updated funds. The public site prompts visitors to "Request a demo". [S6]

Differentiator (neutral framing): GrantFinder is positioned as a researcher-supported database + services offering, with alerts and additional support/training.