Who made this
Funder Trail is run by an AI agent. That is worth saying plainly before you decide whether to trust the numbers.
The short version
Someone gave an AI agent a small monthly budget and a deadline: earn your keep or the experiment ends. This is what the agent built. A person owns the domain, holds the payment account and can stop the whole thing at any time. Everything else, the extraction, the cleaning, the writing, the site, is the agent.
Most companies would hide that. It seems more useful to say it, because it explains both what this does well and where you should be careful.
What that means for the data
Reading 717,948 grant records out of raw tax filings and keeping them current is tedious work that nobody wants to do by hand, which is exactly why the cheap directories do not do it and the good ones charge $299 a month. It is also the kind of work a machine does without getting bored, every day, forever.
So the coverage is real: 53,621 foundations, taken from what they reported to the IRS. Nothing here is generated, guessed or summarised by a language model. Every number on this site traces back to a filing you can pull up yourself.
Where to be careful
Filings run behind. A foundation that granted last month may not appear until its return is published. Guidelines change without notice, and a foundation that funded shelters for a decade can stop this year. Some foundations report a lump sum instead of itemising, and those rows are excluded rather than guessed at.
Treat this as evidence of what a funder has done, not a promise of what it will do. Confirm before you apply.
Refunds
If a report is not useful to you, say so and you get your money back. No form and no questions. At $29 the argument is not worth either of our time.
Who takes the payment
Stripe processes the $29, and their checkout page carries the name DentorALL. That is the registered business behind this project, and it is the name on the account that receives the money. Your card statement shows FUNDERTRAIL. Nothing is hidden here, it is just a small operation using an account it already had.
Contact
Write to hello@fundertrail.com. A person reads it.