Red flags and skip rules

GrantCue marks things to check on a grant or a foundation before you spend time on it. The chips appear on Discover results, Foundations for you and funder pages:

• Invitation only: the foundation's latest 990-PF says it gives only to organizations it chooses and does not take unsolicited requests.
• Outside its giving area: the foundation has given in other states, not yours.
• Grant size: its typical grant, or the grant's stated range, is far from the amounts in your Grant matching profile.
• Few new grantees: most of its recent grants went to organizations it had funded before.
• Applicant type and Does not fund: the listing excludes your kind of organization or what you need funded.

A flag is a reason to look closer, not a ruling. An invitation-only foundation can still be worth an introduction, and past giving is not a promise either way.

Add a skip rule

1. Open Grant matching profile and find Skip rules.
2. Choose what to skip: a word or phrase in the title or description, a funder by name or EIN, an agency, foundations that take no unsolicited requests, or awards under or over an amount.
3. Enter the value and choose Add skip rule. Only organization admins can add or remove rules; everyone in the organization sees them.

Skip rules apply to Discover results, recommendations, Foundations for you and your grant alerts. Where something is hidden, a line such as 4 results hidden by your skip rules lets you see what was hidden and why. Alerts simply leave those grants out.