Find Your Funder 2026: 107 International Donors for NGOs and Community Organisations in Developing Countries

USAID is gone. Europe is cutting aid. Your NGO still needs funding.

In 2025, international aid fell by 23%, the steepest drop on record. Many NGOs, CBOs and faith-based organisations across Africa and other developing countries lost their main donor almost overnight. The money hasn't disappeared, but it has moved, and the old approach of writing to the biggest names and hoping no longer works.

Find Your Funder 2026 shows you exactly where to look.

What's inside

• 107 international funders plus 5 funding search portals, grouped by type: governments, UN and global funds, private foundations, women's funds, faith-based partners and corporate foundations
• For every funder: what they fund, where they fund, their website, and how a local organisation can reach them (apply directly, via embassy, via a partner, or invitation only)
• 2026 status for every funder, so you know who has cut budgets and whose future is uncertain
• "Start here" list: 33 funders local organisations can approach directly
• Index by theme: health, education, women and gender, human rights, climate, livelihoods, humanitarian and civil society
• Funder-readiness checklist: the documents donors ask for
• Eight steps to approach a funder
• Templates: introduction email to a programme officer, and a two-page concept note outline
• How to spot fake donors and grant scams
• Printable application tracker

Plus an Excel workbook

• Full directory with filters and clickable links, plus columns for your own priorities and notes
• Application tracker with deadline countdown, status drop-down and success rate
• Readiness checklist with an automatic readiness score
• 12-month funding calendar

Who it's for

NGO and CBO leaders, programme and fundraising staff, faith-based projects, women's and youth groups, social enterprises, and consultants who help them.

Compiled in October 2026. Instant download: 28-page PDF + Excel workbook (zip).

Also available in Kiswahili: Pata Mfadhili Wako 2026.