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A living index of grants flowing to Africa

Resources should reach
the people doing
the work.

Capital exists. Access is fragmented. We make live funding intelligence easier to find, assess, and act on.

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open opportunities
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32 African countries
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Tracking capital from funders, foundations, and institutions including

Gates Foundation Ford Foundation FCDO Mastercard Foundation USAID Open Society Wellcome Trust EU Commission Gates Foundation Ford Foundation FCDO Mastercard Foundation USAID Open Society Wellcome Trust EU Commission

13,605+

Records processed

385

Monitored sources

100+

Verified public opportunities

Daily

Feed updates

Every public listing passes our quality check and links back to its official source. Figures reflect our monitoring pipeline; the verified count updates live.

The Grants Hub

Today's open calls,
ranked by deadline.

Open Grants Hub

The engine is gathering today's calls

Public opportunities appear here only after they pass verification and quality checks. New grants grow every week — try the full Grants Hub for the wider feed.

What We Do

From proposal
to payout.

Three services. One mission: to make grant capital flow to the African organisations doing the work that matters.

Advisory

Proposal writing, donor strategy, and review by people who have actually won the grants you're chasing.

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Readiness

Workshops, templates, and coaching that move your organisation from "applying" to "winning."

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Brokered Introductions

Curated matches between vetted African partners and funders looking for high-quality pipeline.

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The GCA Network

One ecosystem. Three platforms.

Grant Catalyst Africa is the heart of a connected suite of platforms built for African operators.

One platform, every pathway

Opportunity, brought into one place.

Grant Catalyst Africa tracks the full landscape of capital and career opportunities across the continent — verified, current, and linked to the source.

Grants Tenders Fellowships Scholarships Equity & Investment Accelerators Prizes Mentorship Development Jobs

NGOs & Nonprofits

Find grants, tenders, and partnerships to fund your mission and grow your team.

Founders & Social Enterprises

Discover equity, accelerators, prizes, and non-dilutive capital built for African ventures.

Students & Professionals

Access scholarships, fellowships, mentorship, and verified development-sector jobs.

Funders & Employers

Reach the founders, organisations, and talent your programmes are built to serve.

The Impact

Numbers that move the work.

Live opportunity numbers and the advisory track record behind the platform. The open-opportunity count updates from today's verified listings.

Live Public Opportunities

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Passed through the public quality gate and open to applicants right now.

Source Domains

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Publisher and discovery sources represented in the live public feed.

Opportunity Types

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Grants, fellowships, tenders, prizes, jobs, and other capital pathways.

Public Standard

LIVE

No static sample feed and no weak states published by default.

Community partnership case study

Built for African operators

From opportunity discovery to submission readiness

How GCA Helps

Find the right opportunity. Prove the fit. Submit a stronger application.

The engine reduces discovery noise. The advisory practice helps organisations turn a promising match into a clear theory of change, defensible budget, and funder-ready submission.

Opportunity fit: eligibility, geography, timing, and capital type.

Application readiness: narrative, evidence, budget logic, and compliance.

Capital strategy: grants, tenders, fellowships, blended finance, and investment pathways.

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Insights

Sharp thinking on
African resources.

Get new insights in The Catalyst Brief
Funder intelligence article

Funder Intelligence · Coming in The Catalyst Brief

Where Africa's grant capital actually goes

Data stories built from verified African funding, sector by sector.

Grant readiness workshop

Grant Readiness · Coming in The Catalyst Brief

What winning proposals do differently

Lessons from the advisory desk on structure, budget logic, and funder fit.

Climate adaptation sector deep dive

Sector Deep Dive · Coming in The Catalyst Brief

Climate adaptation: the funding gap nobody is closing

Why African adaptation receives so little climate capital — and how that changes.

Submit & Partner

Have an opportunity to share with Africa?

Funders, employers, accelerators, NGOs, and ecosystem partners can submit grants, tenders, fellowships, scholarships, equity, accelerators, and development jobs. Our team reviews every submission before it reaches the public feed.

Free to list

No cost to share credible opportunities with our audience.

Human-reviewed

Every submission is checked by our team — no automated listing.

Linked to you

Listings link back to your official page so applicants reach you directly.

The Catalyst Brief

The grants newsletter for serious African operators.

New grants worth applying to, teardowns of winning proposals, and intelligence you'll actually use. Free.

Free for African operators. Unsubscribe anytime.

For Funders & Institutions

Sourcing African pipeline shouldn't take 9 months.

We work with foundations, bilateral agencies, and corporate funders to surface vetted, ready-to-fund African partners — and to publish data products that sharpen your decisions.

Book a 30-minute intro

9

Months saved on average per partnership

100%

Vetted partners with audited financials

32

African countries in our network

14d

Typical time to first introduction