UPDATED: July 28, 2025
9 out of 10 organizations reviewed by Unfunded List raise more money within five years. We are once again seeking grant proposals for review. We review any proposal submitted to any funder from any organization. Our evaluators have reviewed over 1,300 proposals since 2015 helping proposal authors increase their fundraising by over 200 percent.
We understand that philanthropy can be confusing, even frustrating, and we want to help. That’s why we regularly issue this request for proposals in need of review. The Unfunded List is currently accepting proposals from nonprofits, voluntary associations, social enterprises, and individuals seeking helpful and candid review on their philanthropic fundraising materials. We do not review business plans, pitch decks, or investment requests. Every proposal we receive is reviewed by multiple evaluators and every author receives a helpful and candid feedback report as well as the opportunity for a report discussion. Interested proposal authors should submit their proposal by September 20th.
This is the 21st request for proposals issued by Unfunded List
Hundreds of volunteer evaluators are waiting to review your proposal. The Unfunded List Evaluation Committee includes some of the most accomplished grant writers in the world. Our reviewers are experienced nonprofit managers, board members and advisors, program officers from some of the world’s most influential foundations. We intentionally include a variety of perspectives; the formerly unhoused, formerly incarcerated, refugees and asylum seekers, as well as veterans, teachers, nurses, and dental hygienists. We also have reviewers from every continent and nearly every major city. Whatever you are fundraising for we will have relevant and helpful evaluators ready to read your proposal.
We have conducted over 1300 grant proposal reviews
The authors we have reviewed found new partnerships, recruited new volunteers, crafted new proposals, and raised millions in new funding. This round’s submission deadline is September 20th and you can find answers to frequently asked questions on our website. Those we reviewed have called us an “incredible resource” time and time again. Here is more of what they had to say about their review:
TESTIMONIALS
“Thanks so much to the Unfunded List for funneling opportunities to us – it’s amazing how fast things have happened from it, and now we’ve got $360,000 to scale up and develop another fingerprint scanner (for babies!)”
~Simprints
“We just got 60k in new funding from the New York Women’s Foundation. This foundation had not done any funding in the disability space before. You helped us break a glass ceiling, thanks for all you do.”
~RespectAbility
“We cannot tell you how much we appreciate the Unfunded List. The feedback is invaluable. While we always ask for feedback on declined applications, we rarely get a response and even less often get specific feedback. We’ve worked the comments into our applications, and plan to submit again to the same opportunity…Thank you for continuing to offer this opportunity to nonprofits!”
~Food Rescue US
“Thank you [Unfunded List] for this incredible resource! We’re grateful to the volunteer evaluators who took the time to read our application and provide specific, usable feedback. I liked that there were 6 evaluators, as this provides different perspectives while also surfacing common themes among the evaluators. I have shared this with other team members, and this will help shape our future applications and proposals.”
~A 2019 SOLVE Challenge finalist
The submission deadline for this round is September 20th. Here are some other important dates:
October 1 – Proposals Assigned to Evaluators
November 20 – Feedback Due From Evaluators
December 1 – Feedback Reports Sent
December & January – Report Discussions with Authors
If you are a grant writer then you probably have a lot of deadlines in your life. We understand and we are sorry to add one more request for proposals to your long list but we promise it will be worth it. And we are not asking you to write anything new. In fact, we strongly encourage you to submit a proposal that you already submitted to a funder, and let us know who that funder was so we can be as helpful, candid, and specific as we can. Great proposal review makes for great proposals.
