What counts as a programme here?
Whatever the funder publishes under one name: a framework programme like Horizon Europe, a fund like LIFE, or a single agency such as the US National Science Foundation. Each gets its own page with its open calls, its published budget, the months its cut-offs fall in and who may apply. The unit below a programme is a call, the thing you actually apply to.
Which programmes are actually worth reading first?
By volume, US Department of Health and Human Services (961 open), Horizon Europe (482 open), Australia, GrantConnect (138 open). Volume is not opportunity, though: a programme with 900 calls aimed at US non-profits is closed to you, and one with 25 calls may fit perfectly. Read the applicant structure and the eligible countries before you read the budget.
How do the programmes split across regions?
North America (33), European Union (23), Asia-Pacific (4). That split matters more than it looks: most national programmes restrict eligibility to entities established in that country, so a European company reads the 645 EU-level calls first and treats the rest as a map of who funds what.
Do I need a consortium, or can one company apply?
Across everything open here, 470 calls require a consortium and 1703 accept a single applicant. The split is regional rather than random: EU framework topics are collaborative by design, while national agencies fund single organisations far more often. The programme pages carry that ratio per funder, so you can pick a programme by whether you can assemble partners at all.
Does a bigger budget mean better odds?
No, and the two numbers to compare are on every programme page: the published budget and the number of grants the funder expects to award. A €50M call funding four projects is a different proposition from a €50M call funding two hundred. 281 of the 472 calls that publish a funding rate cover the full cost of the action; the rest expect co-financing you have to bring.
What does the budget figure mean?
It is the sum of what each funder published, in its own currency, converted once at the European Central Bank rates this build holds. A call that publishes no budget contributes nothing rather than an estimate, so the total is a floor, not a guess.
Where does the data come from?
Only from the funders themselves, 7 sources, fetched daily and stored verbatim. Everything published here is derived from that stored copy: nothing is typed in by hand and nothing is scraped from aggregators.
Can I apply alone, without a consortium?
Often, yes, but it is the first gate to check, and the one most applicants get wrong. Every call here states which structure it requires, quoted from the conditions where the funder states it, and marked as inferred where we derived it from the type of action.
Can I see only the calls I could win?
Yes. The fit check reads every call against your organisation on the gates that decide admissibility (structure, co-financing, maturity, and whether the cut-off is still reachable) and shows the sentence behind each verdict. Calls that block you are shown with the condition that blocks them, because sometimes it is one you can change.
