A transparent view of how public grant funding moves.
Grant Signal is a research project to find and track government grants from programme design through deployment—making patterns, coverage, and gaps easier to see.
The research question
The infrastructure exists. The view across it does not.
Governments have done important work building the infrastructure to design, announce, administer, and deploy grants. Grant Signal starts by recognising that foundation—not by treating the system or the people working within it as the problem.
The open research question is visibility across that infrastructure. Information often lives across departments, portals, documents, announcements, and reporting formats, making it hard to see what was offered, where funding moved, who it reached, and which areas may remain underserved.
This is not a scorecard for attacking institutions or individuals. It is an attempt to add a transparent layer that helps researchers, founders, policymakers, and the public understand the landscape more clearly—and find useful gaps without overstating what the data can prove.
Transparency is most useful when it helps good infrastructure learn.
Start with what works
Government has built substantial infrastructure to design, administer, and deploy grants. The research begins by recognising that work.
Trace the full journey
Bring programmes, eligibility, allocation, deployment, geography, and public outcomes into one legible view.
Make gaps visible
Separate an absence of data from an absence of funding, and make uncertainty clear instead of turning it into a conclusion.
Research before product
Publish the sources, method, and limitations first. If the work proves useful, it may grow into a living public tool.
Grant Signal is currently an early research project. The methodology, source map, research notes, and limitations will appear here as the work develops. If the underlying research becomes reliable and genuinely useful, it may grow into a product of its own.