• The State of Grantseeking Report presents a ground-level look at the grantseeking experience and focuses on funding from non-government grant sources and government grants and contracts.
• The 2025 State of Grantseeking Survey was open in March of 2025 and received nearly 1,200 responses.
• The information in this report, unless otherwise specified, reflects recent grantseeking activity during the year 2024.
• The survey was conducted online using Survey Monkey and was not scientifically conducted, as survey respondents are a nonrandom sample of organizations that self-selected to take the survey basesd on their affiliation with GrantStation and GrantStation partners.
• The State of Grantseeking Report uses descriptive statistics and focused survey results, including data by mission focus or budget size, to provide a resource more closely matched to your specific organization.
• Due to the variation in respondent organizations over time, this report does not include trends.
• For the purpose of statistical validity, the Benchmarker includes mission focuses with 200 or more respondents; the remaining mission focuses are aggregated as "Other".