Our platform can tell you which opportunities exist. This is the other half of the job — a strategist who reads them against your organization, picks the two or three worth your team's time, and works the calendar with you through submission.
Month to month. Cancel any time. Work begins within five business days.
Software narrows the field. A person decides what you do on Monday.
It has never been cheaper to produce a list. Anyone can generate fifty plausible-looking matches in a minute, and most organizations we meet already have a folder full of them. What no tool can settle is the decision that comes next: which one of these deserves six weeks of your program director's life?
That call needs context a model doesn't hold. The politics of your board. The reason the last application stalled in review. The program officer who remembers your name. The capacity you honestly have in March, as opposed to the capacity on the org chart. It also needs somebody accountable for having made it.
We built the largest open grant database in the country and we still believe this. The database is where the work starts. It is not where the work gets finished.
One organization, one strategist, a fixed monthly price. Everything below is in scope from the first week.
Inside the first two weeks you get a written strategy: the funders worth your attention this year, in priority order, with why each one fits and what it would take to be competitive. Short enough that your board will read it.
Your opportunities tracked in OpenGrants with deadlines, requirements, and owners attached. We maintain it, so nobody on your team is rebuilding a spreadsheet every quarter.
A recurring hour with your strategist. Not a status update — the meeting where decisions get made, drafts get argued over, and the next two weeks get set.
We read your drafts, tighten the narrative, pressure-test budgets and logic models against what the funder asked for, and tell you plainly when something is not ready to go out.
Program officers, past awardees, award sizes, and funding history — pulled from federal, state, local, foundation, and IRS 990 data — so you walk into calls knowing who you are talking to.
Email and Slack with your strategist. Deadlines do not wait for the weekly meeting, and neither should you.
OpenGrants access for everyone who touches funding at your organization, included in the retainer at no extra cost.
The opening month is sequenced deliberately, so you have something usable before your first invoice renews.
Week one
We go through your programs, budget, past applications, and anything already in flight. You send documents. We do the reading.
Week two
You get the written funding strategy and priority list — and then we argue about it together until it reflects what your organization can really carry.
Week three
Opportunities loaded, deadlines mapped, owners assigned, alerts running. Your team can see the whole year at once.
Week four
Work starts on the highest-priority submission, with review time built in well before the deadline rather than the night before it.
After the first month the cadence holds: weekly sessions, continuous pipeline maintenance, and review on whatever is due next.
A retainer is a real commitment. Here is our honest read on when it pays for itself and when something cheaper serves you better.
Most consulting in this category is billed hourly or as a percentage of award, which quietly rewards activity over outcomes. This is a flat monthly fee, so the incentive is simple: keep being worth renewing.
$2,500 per month, billed monthly — cancel any time
Secure checkout through Stripe. Your intake questionnaire and scheduling link arrive by email immediately after.
A named strategist working on your funding, a written funding strategy, a pipeline we build and maintain, a standing weekly session, review on drafts and budgets, and direct access between meetings. Platform seats for your team are included.
We do strategy, funder research, narrative shaping, and review. If you want a full application drafted end to end, the OpenGrants marketplace connects you with vetted grant writers — and we will help you pick one and manage the work.
The platform surfaces and scores opportunities. The retainer is a person who reads them against your organization, decides what is worth pursuing, and stays accountable to the calendar. Retainer clients get the platform included.
No, and we would be careful with anyone who says otherwise. We do not predict outcomes or make eligibility determinations. What we can do is show you what a funder's published criteria say, how your organization lines up against them, and where your effort is best spent.
Month to month. Cancel any time from your billing portal and you keep access through the period you have already paid for. In practice most engagements need three to six months before the pipeline is genuinely producing.
Within five business days of checkout. The intake questionnaire and scheduling link go out immediately, and the first working session lands in week one.
Nonprofits, cities, counties, special districts, research institutions, and mission-driven small businesses pursuing programs like SBIR and STTR. If you are unsure whether you qualify for anything, ask us before you buy.
Tell us during intake. Multi-entity portfolios, white-label programs for economic development organizations, and larger scopes are quoted separately — start with the form below rather than checkout.
If you would rather talk before you buy, this is the way in. We read every submission ourselves and reply within one business day — with a straight answer about whether we are the right help, including when we are not.
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