Your federal funding was cut
Our federal funding was cut. Where else can we find money?
Look in four places at once: other federal programs, state programs that pass federal money through, private foundations, and government contracts. A cut program rarely takes the whole field with it. The same need is usually funded somewhere else under a different name, and searching by what you do finds it faster than searching for the program you lost.
Last reviewed October 2, 2026.
Where the money moves
- Other federal programs
- Agencies often fund the same work through several programs. Search by the activity you do.
- State pass-through programs
- States receive federal money and run their own competitions with it. These are smaller, closer to home, and often less crowded.
- Private foundations
- Foundations step in when public money leaves a field. Start with the ones already funding organizations like yours.
- Government contracts
- If you deliver a service, a contract can pay for it. Quillify carries 12,000+ open contracts in the same search as grants.
Bridging the gap
New grants take months to arrive. A community development lender can bridge the time between a cut and a new award. Here is how that works.
When public money leaves a community, local community foundations sometimes open a shared emergency fund with one short application, so ask yours whether one is open.
Who asks this most
The answer above is the same whoever you are. What Quillify does about it is not.
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