Unfunded List

Founded in 2015 and based in Washington D.C., the Unfunded List helps non-profit organizations improve the quality of their grant proposals and find new and alternative sources of support for their work.

The Unfunded List actively collects proposals from grant-seeking organizations that have been rejected by large foundations. It provides these proposals to all volunteer panel of reviewers composed of more than 200 foundation staff, subject matter experts, and individual donors. Reviewers provide candid feedback to grant seekers who use this feedback to improve their plans. The Unfunded List then actively promotes the best proposals, as identified by its reviewers, to its network of donors.

This award provides general support needed to increase the number and quality of applications that are reviewed, expand the Unfunded List's advisory panel, and improve the Unfunded List's capacity to arrange funding for the organizations it advises. The organization is closely tied to networks of new, living donors, and next generation (under 40) philanthropists.

Founded in 2015 and based in Washington D.C., the Unfunded List helps non-profit organizations improve the quality of their grant proposals and find alternative sources of support for those that have been rejected. Twice a year, the Unfunded List issues an open call for proposals that have been rejected by large foundations; it then gathers reviews of these proposals from an all volunteer panel composed of more than 100 foundation staff, subject matter experts, and individual donors. Participants in the open call use the feedback they receive to improve their proposals, and the Unfunded List actively promotes the best of them, as identified by its reviewers, to its network of donors.

This award provides general support needed to increase the number and quality of applications that are reviewed, expand the Unfunded List's advisory panel, and improve the Unfunded List's capacity to arrange funding for the organizations it advises.