In short
GrantHub is a free directory of 1,600+ government grants and tax credits across 21 countries. Owners filter by country, industry, and headcount to find programs they qualify for. Each listing shows eligibility, deadlines, and award size in plain English, so you skip the 15-to-25% consultant fee.
Grants and tax credits exist for a reason. Most owners can't find them, can't read them, or run out of time.
A UK SaaS founder we spoke with found a £50,000 R&D tax credit they'd missed for two financial years. GrantHub flagged eligibility in 6 minutes. The application took their accountant a day.
There's no single reason. There are four, stacked on top of each other, and most owners only realise they're paying all of them after they've already given up.
The first is the consultant tax. Specialist grant advisors typically take 15 to 25 percent of the award as a success fee. Some take a flat retainer just to assess eligibility. On a £40,000 R&D credit, that's £6,000 to £10,000 you'll never see. For a smaller business, the maths often kills the application before it starts.
The second is the time tax. Searching across government portals, accelerator pages, and council sites burns 10 to 20 hours before you've even filed anything. Most owners do this on a Friday afternoon, lose patience by hour three, and tell themselves they'll come back next quarter. They rarely do.
The third is the deadline cliff. Grant windows open and close every quarter. Miss a date by a week and the next intake is three months away, sometimes longer. If you didn't know the program existed in week one of the window, you've already lost.
The fourth is the eligibility maze. Each program has 8 to 15 separate criteria: company age, headcount band, registered region, revenue range, sector code, founder profile, prior funding history, project type. Get one wrong and the application is rejected. Most owners never get a clear yes-or-no answer until they've already spent two evenings filling forms.
GrantHub exists because all four of those problems are solvable with a directory, not a consultant.
Every listing has eligibility, deadline, award range, and a link to the official program. No upsell.
R&D tax credits
UK SME R&D relief (£25K–£250K typical), US Section 174 + state credits, Canada SR&ED, Australia R&D Tax Incentive. Eligibility usually turns on what counts as 'qualifying activity', and we spell it out.
Regional and location-based programs
UK Levelling Up funds, US state economic development grants, German Länder programs, Australian state-level support. Awards from $5K to $500K depending on region.
Women and founder-diverse grants
US SBA 8(a), UK women-founder programs, Canada WES, Ireland Going for Growth. Award sizes range from $10K to $150K. Each listing flags founder eligibility criteria upfront.
Sector grants
Clean energy (UK Innovate, US DOE), hardware and manufacturing (Made Smarter UK, US MEP), biotech (UK MRC, US NIH SBIR). Sector-specific awards from $50K to $2M.
Export and trade funding
UK Tradeshow Access, US STEP grants, Australia EMDG, Canada CanExport. Usually reimburses 50 percent of qualifying export costs up to a country-specific cap.
Hiring and apprenticeship credits
UK apprenticeship levy returns, US WOTC, Canada hiring incentives, Ireland JobsPlus. Often $2K to $9K per hire and stackable with other programs.
Built because businesses shouldn't need a consultant just to find out what funding exists.
A real eligibility filter, not keyword search
Tell us your country, sector, headcount band, and revenue. The directory hides programs you can't win. No more reading 40 pages to find out you don't qualify.
Deadlines you can actually act on
Each program shows the current intake window, next intake quarter, and whether it's rolling or fixed. You see what's open this week, not what closed last month.
Updated weekly by humans
Programs change wording, awards, and eligibility quietly. We re-check listings on a weekly cycle. No scraped data, no stale numbers from 2022.
Built by an agency that's applied for these credits
We've claimed R&D credits, hiring credits, and export support for our own business and for clients. We write each listing from the applicant's seat, not the regulator's.
Who this isn't for: if you're looking for venture funding, GrantHub won't help. This is for non-dilutive money: grants, credits, and program payments, not investor intros. We also won't be the right fit if you want a done-for-you application service. GrantHub tells you what to apply for; your accountant or in-house team files it. If you'd rather have us build a custom internal tool to track funding, see our product development services or browse our other free tools.
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