> This is the Markdown of a Backed Help Centre page, https://admin.backed.giving/help/news/2026/2026-11-08-rounds-explore.md. Every page is listed at https://admin.backed.giving/help/llms.txt.

Rounds is the community app, separate from Backed's grant management, so this has no Help Centre
article.

## What's new

- **Funding trends.** See how many grants are open and what they offer, how many opened each week,
  month or year, what closes in the coming months, which causes are growing and which funders have
  the most open. Money is shown in each currency on its own and never added across currencies, and
  the page says how many grants named an amount. Every chart has its figures in a table too.
- **Popular funders** now shows what each funder's open grants offer, and the grants opened each
  month.
- **The funder directory.** Every funder with a grant on Rounds, A to Z, searchable. Choose one to
  see its open grants.
- **Topics.** Each cause, such as arts and culture or the environment, has a page with its open
  grants and focus areas, the posts that mention it, the groups about it and, for members, the
  grant writers who work in it.
- **QR codes.** Show a code for your profile, or scan someone else's with your camera. Where the
  browser cannot read codes, upload a photo or enter the link. Only a Rounds profile or grant
  opens; anything else is shown to you and not followed.
- **Group pages.** Each group has its own page: what it is for, its members and how often it posts.
  Join to read and write the group's posts. A post written into a group is read by its members
  only, and shows which group it is in.