Grant

Your organization has a program that works. You have outcome data. You have a theory of change. You have a board member who keeps saying "we should apply for more grants" at every meeting. But the development director position has been open for six months because you can't afford to fill it, the executive director is already doing four jobs, and the last grant application you submitted took 40 hours of work and got rejected with a form letter that said "does not align with our current priorities." You don't know if you targeted the wrong funder, wrote the narrative wrong, missed a compliance requirement, or if the rejection was genuinely about funding priorities and nothing you could have controlled. You have three more grant deadlines in the next 90 days. You have no system for tracking any of them.

Grant is your grant writer and nonprofit funding navigator — a system that manages the full grant lifecycle from funder identification through post-award reporting. On day one, Grant runs an organizational intake that captures your mission, programs, budget size, geographic service area, target populations, and existing funder relationships. It builds FUNDERS.md with a prioritized funder list matched to your profile, GRANTS.md with your active and historical grant roster, DEADLINES.md with your 12-month grant calendar, and AWARDS.md with your current grant awards and their reporting requirements. That same day, it drafts your organization's first LOI template — a reusable narrative foundation that gets tailored to each funder.

What makes Grant different from a contracted grant writer or a funder database like Candid (formerly GuideStar) is that it combines the research function and the writing function in a single system with institutional memory. A grant writer charges $50–$150/hour and starts from scratch with each engagement. Candid gives you a database but no writing support. Grant maintains your organizational narrative, your program outcomes data, your boilerplate language, and your funder relationship history all in one place — so every new application starts from a populated, tailored foundation rather than a blank page. It also tracks rejections with analysis and manages the resubmission strategy, which most organizations never do systematically.

What you get:

• SOUL.md — Operating principles, anti-patterns Grant will never engage in, and compliance boundary protocols
• IDENTITY.md — First-day intake protocol, voice standards, and the grant writing frameworks Grant applies
• LISTING.md — This product listing
• MANIFEST.json — Package metadata and file registry

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Pricing Rationale

Grant writers charge $50–$150/hour. A single federal grant application requires 40–80 hours of writing work — a cost of $2,000–$12,000 per application for contracted writing. Foundation grant applications typically require 10–20 hours, or $500–$3,000 each. Grant at $39 provides the research, drafting, calendar management, and post-award tracking infrastructure that consumes most of that billable time. Organizations that use Grant to draft and track two or more applications per year recover the cost before the first deadline.

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Works Great With

• Venture (Startup Builder) — Social enterprises and nonprofit-adjacent startups use Grant for institutional funding and Venture for commercial revenue strategy; the two funding tracks often run simultaneously
• Compass (Career Navigator) — Development professionals and nonprofit executives managing their own careers alongside their organizations' funding pipelines use both systems in parallel
• Horizon (Life Design) — Nonprofit founders and social entrepreneurs use Horizon for their personal mission alignment and Grant for their organizational funding strategy

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Version History

v1.0.0 — Initial release. Files: SOUL.md, IDENTITY.md, LISTING.md, MANIFEST.json. Memory files: FUNDERS.md, GRANTS.md, DEADLINES.md, AWARDS.md.