You heard about it too late, for a grant you could never have won.

Stipendium reads the guidelines so you don't have to, then says it plainly: eligible, excluded, or it depends, with the exact sentence that decided it, quoted from the funder.

// research activity: travel, fieldwork, equipment, publication, stipends. not tuition.

Put me on the list → no spam · no institution required

Four things we can honestly say

Eligible

Every condition we could read, you meet. Go and write the thing.

Excluded

A rule rules you out, and here is the sentence. That's a week you get back.

Conditional

It turns on your supervisor, your dates, or a clause we won't guess at. We show what would settle it.

Silent

The funder never mentions it. We say so rather than inventing an answer.

// doubt never resolves upward. nothing we can't read ever becomes an “eligible”.

The list

Three questions now, your verdicts at launch.

Career stage, citizenship, where you're based. That trio decides most of Australian eligibility, so we can have your list ready the day we open in Q4 2026.

// one email at launch. possibly one before it, if we find something you'd be cross to miss.

Career stage

Citizenship

Where you're based

// we only ask what changes your results. no institution, no cv, no phone number.

Why this doesn't already exist

The databases are sold to institutions

Pivot-RP and InfoEd are bought by research offices, priced for research offices, and shaped around what a research office needs to report. Nobody built the version where one researcher types in their own situation.

Chatbots make grants up

Ask a general-purpose model for fellowships in your field and it hands you a scheme name, a closing date and a dollar figure with total composure. Some of them exist. We quote the funder instead, verbatim, with the document it came from.

Borders are where it gets hard

A German citizen doing a PhD in Melbourne is eligible for Australian, German, EU and portable international schemes at once, with no single place to find out. That case is the reason to build this properly.

From the person building it

A PhD student I know got a message from their supervisor at a quarter to six on a weeknight. A bequest had opened. Applications closed in six days. They had to go and look up what the scheme even was.

Six days is not enough time to write a proposal, and as a PhD student they could not have submitted one anyway. A month's warning is a conversation with your supervisor. Six days' warning is just a reason to feel behind. You don't know what you don't know.

So Stipendium says excluded out loud and shows the sentence that did it. It says we don't know when it doesn't know, which is less impressive and much more useful. And it tells you a scheme exists while there is still time to write something.

Australia first, because that's the corpus I can verify by hand. More countries after that, added when they're right rather than when they'd look good on the homepage.