The money exists.
Nobody handed you the map.
There are more than 150 verified grants, fellowships, broadcaster commissions and finishing funds for documentaries right now — across 12 regions, worth $1,000 to $700,000. Most filmmakers only ever hear about five of them. The Vault is the map to the rest.
Every documentary is two productions. Only one of them is on camera.
The first production is the one you signed up for: the access, the trust, the footage, the cut. The second one runs at midnight, in seventeen browser tabs — foundations, film institutes, broadcasters, fellowships — each with its own portal, its own narrow eligibility rules, and its own deadline buried three clicks deep.
And the second production is the one that decides whether the first one gets finished. So this keeps happening:
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US-based environmental feature docs & series; sample footage, not picture-locked.
CLOSED- You find the perfect fund — three days after it closed.
- You spend an evening on an application, then learn you were never eligible — wrong country, wrong stage, wrong career level.
- You hear about the same five famous funds everyone chases, and miss the €25k–€120k programs nobody blogs about.
- Your project stalls between deadlines because you didn't see the next one coming.
Here's the part nobody tells you: the money isn't scarce — it's scattered. Tens of millions move through these programs every year, through a hundred-plus portals, in a dozen languages. Scattered is not a talent problem. Scattered is a research problem. And research problems can be solved once, properly, for everyone.
One vault. Every fund. Filtered to you.
The Vault is a filterable database of every documentary funding route worth your time — grants, fellowships, broadcaster commissions, finishing funds, pitch markets, production incentives and fiscal sponsors. Every entry verified against the funder's official page. Real deadlines. Eligibility spelled out before you waste a night on it.
Open right now — straight from the Vault.
Plus 30 rolling funds you can apply to any week of the year — and the annual cycles that reopen, tracked so you're early instead of late. All 150+ live in the Vault.
The accuracy barVerified, not scraped.
- Every entry checked against the funder's official page — with a direct link.
- Every card carries an honest confidence flag. If a funder doesn't publish a figure, the Vault says so instead of inventing one.
- Funds that went dormant got cut. One grant that's likely been inactive since 2023 was excluded rather than let you waste an evening on it.
- Deadlines shift, cycles reopen — your copy refreshes itself through December 2026, automatically.
Built in the openSharpened by working filmmakers.
The Vault launched inside the documentary community, not at it — researched openly, stress-tested by filmmakers with films actually in the pipeline: civil-rights archives in Chicago, refugee stories, rust-belt manufacturing, surveillance in the American South.
When one of them flagged a gap in LGBTQ+ finishing funds, four verified programs were researched and added within a day. That's the deal: every time a filmmaker pushes on it, it gets sharper — and every copy gets the update.
Try 20 funds free. Keep the deadlines coming.
Drop your email and the free sample opens instantly — a real, filterable 20-fund slice of the Vault. You'll also get Deadline Watch: a short monthly email of what's closing soon, like the table above. One-click unsubscribe, never shared.
Do the producer math.
- The full filterable Vault — 150+ programs
- Region, stage, format, career & focus filters (women & gender-expansive, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, Indigenous, climate, journalism…)
- Deadlines sorted by urgency, eligibility on every card
- Self-updating — your copy quietly stays current through Dec 2026; a stamp shows exactly how fresh it is
- One self-contained file — works offline, desktop & mobile
Not ready? Take the free 20-fund sample — and either way, look at the deadlines above and apply to something this week. That's the whole point.
Couldn't I just Google all of this myself?
You could — across 30+ sites, over many hours, and you'd still miss the funds nobody blogs about and the eligibility fine print that disqualifies you. The Vault is that work done once, verified, and kept current. Your time is the real cost it saves.
I'm not in the US. Is it useful?
That's a deliberate strength. It covers the UK, EU, Nordics, Canada, Australia, NZ, and funds across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East — including the European programs US-centric lists skip. Filter to your region and see.
Some 2026 deadlines have already passed.
True, and the Vault tells you so plainly instead of hiding it. Annual programs reliably return — knowing they exist now means you're ready for the next window instead of finding them too late again. And as you can see above, plenty are open right now.
What if it's not for me?
14-day money-back guarantee. If it doesn't save you time or surface a fund you didn't know about, email for a full refund. No questions, no friction.