Pro6 minute read· Updated 5 November 2026
Find your next funder through organisations like yours
Use public award data to find the funders and buyers that already backed organisations like yours, then write to them citing that award.
The funders most likely to back you are the ones that have already backed organisations like yours. They have shown, with money, that your theme, geography and type of organisation fit their strategy. This guide shows you how to build rings of peer organisations, trace who funded them using free public award data and the Raise Lens Funding flows log, and write a first message that references the peer award instead of asking a stranger to take a chance on you.
Inside this playbook
- What you need
- 1. Build your peer rings
- 2. Pull awards from Raise Lens first
- 3. Fill the gaps from public award data
- 4. Score the funders
- 5. Learn from the peer before you write
- 6. Write to the funder referencing the peer award
- 7. Use the same method for tenders
- 8. Keep it current
- Checklist
- Further reading
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