The grant money already exists. My AI kept inventing foundations to spend it on
This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Generosity Edition What I Built The money exists. A small NGO just cannot find it. That is what a generosity problem looks like at the small end. The giving has already happened — foundations with open, rolling, unclaimed programmes, sitting there — and it is spread across a few thousand pages nobody has time to read. After the 2025–26 collapse of USAID funding, organisations that had one funder now need six, and the people doing that searching are the same people running the programme: a director who is also the grant writer, working evenings. Generosity is not the scarce thing here. Attention is. So an AI grant finder is an obvious idea. It is also a dangerous one, because the failure mode is not "unhelpful." A three-person NGO that spends a week writing an application against a deadline that never existed has lost a week it cannot get back, and it will not find out until it submits. The tool would have taken the one thing that was actually scarce. FundFinderAI is the response, in one sentence: it searches the live web for currently open grants that fit your NGO, and then it refuses to trust its own model about any of them. Every application URL Gemini produces is independently fetched before you see it, and the card tells you what happened when we tried. The interesting part is not that it searches. It is everything the app does to establish that the search actually happened and that the result actually exists. Demo Live: fundfinder-ai.vercel.app — describe an NGO, get grants, open a drafted Letter of Inquiry. Give it 30–120 seconds. It is running ten to thirty real Google searches and then fetching every URL that comes back, and the page shows you the clock while it does. Paste this in if you would rather not invent an NGO: NGO name: Kisumu STEM Girls Collective Location: Kisumu, Kenya Mission: We run after-school robotics and coding clubs for girls aged 12-17 in Kisumu, Kenya, and train their teachers to keep the club