Done-for-you grant program
$1,080,000target grant funding a year
— written, verified, and filed for you. At 15 applications a month, our managed team sources well-matched opportunities, writes the proposals, completes the forms, and files on your behalf. Move the sliders below; it's all your numbers.
We verify every claim, number, and source before you file. On a grant application, a figure you can't back up is a false statement with real consequences — nothing unsupported gets through.
The reward
What a year of managed grants could fund.
$1,080,000
targeted grant funding a year, at your assumptions
180
applications / yr
21.6
targeted wins / yr
99.7%
win in first 90 days
We start with a 90-day proof so you can see progress before committing long-term — but funding can compound the longer we work together, which is why many organizations keep us on full-time.
What it costs the old way
The bills and the hours before a single dollar comes in.
To produce these 180 applications a year on your own, here's what the usual routes would cost you — before any grant is won.
Outside consultant
$945,000 / yr
180 applications a year at $3,000–$7,500 each (≈$5,250/app), billed per project.
In-house grant writers
$702,000 / yr
At $6,000–$7,000/month per writer — and one writer produces only 15–25 applications a year — this volume takes about 9 full-time hires.
Doing it yourself
5,400 hours / yr
That's the drafting time these applications take — and at real-world output, about 9 full-time people to produce and manage them at this volume.
Your price
After all that — here's the small number designed to do it for you.
Full done-for-you
$11,250 / month
$135,000 a year ($7,500 + 5×$750) · 90-day guarantee included
All in, $135,000 a year — versus $945,000 the consultant route would bill for the same applications.
GrantAuthority — per completed application
$750
Versus the $702,000–$945,000 those routes would bill a year for the same work — sourced, written, ZH-verified, and filed for you.
Up to 10 applications a month included; you've set 15 (+5 beyond 10). Each extra application is +$750/mo (full done-for-you) or +$500/mo (proposal only) — your per-application cost stays flat as volume grows.
At 15 applications a month, GrantAuthority can produce in 90 days what a full-time grant writer typically produces in over 2 years — with every claim verified before it reaches you.
Just 3 wins cover the entire year of grant work — and the targeted wins above are ~22.
Larger grants are quoted per application: $1,500 ($500K–$1M), $2,500 ($1M–$5M), $5,000 ($5M–$50M); above $50M is custom. The figures here use the sub-$500K rate.
Continue to qualify
Carry this plan into the fit finder.
We'll save this scope, then ask the seven qualification questions. If it is a strong DFY fit, the next screen books your strategy call.
The real unlock
Warm introductions to the funders who write the big checks.
Most serious grant funding doesn't move through application portals. It moves through relationships.
Open grants are the fast lane — quicker decisions, small-to-mid awards, and how you secure your first wins in the first 90 days. But the largest gifts come from major donors, donor-advised funds, and family foundations that give $100K, $500K, even seven figures — and only to organizations they know and trust.
Our database maps nearly 3 million funders worldwide — including over 860,000 in the US with their historical giving mapped out. We target the ones whose track record fits your mission and work to make warm introductions on your behalf — the kind of access most organizations never get on their own.
This lane takes time. Relationships are cultivated over months, not weeks, before the big gifts arrive. So we recommend a simple sequence:
Start with grants.
Target real funding in the first 90 days.
Reinvest.
As that grant funding arrives, put it toward the introductions program.
Compound.
Let the relationships mature toward major, recurring, multi-year support.
Done well, this is where annual funding can move from tens of thousands toward the millions.
Funder Introductions
Add-on · recommended once your first grant funding lands
$5,000/mo
How it works
From approved to funded — and exactly where the lines are drawn.
Apply to see if you qualify
A short screen on your status, materials, and mission fit. We don't take every organization — it protects your results and ours.
Onboard your corpus
Once approved, you send everything we write from: every grant application you’ve completed before, marketing materials, financials, program descriptions, impact data, and the standard documents grants require. The stronger this is, the faster and sharper we work — and your guarantee clock starts here.
We set up your GrantAuthority account
Every application we work is tracked in one place, with status visible to you at all times.
We source, write, complete, and verify
We match opportunities, draft the proposal, complete the forms we can from your information, and verify every claim against your source material before anything reaches you.
You review and approve — always
Nothing is filed without your sign-off, form by form. Your approval is your organization's certification that the content is accurate; your Authorized Representative remains the certifying party.
We submit through each portal
Every grantor uses its own portal. You set up the login and we file under your explicit written authorization, or you submit the final package yourself. Then we move to the next one.
We track and manage through decision
Decisions take days to months, and many grants run multiple rounds. While you're retained, we manage communications and any pre-award steps the grantor requires.
What counts as "an application" varies by grantor. Sometimes it's the single proposal our system generates. Sometimes it's a 40-document package — forms, attachments, certifications — the grantor demands. We complete everything we can from your information; you review and approve each form. Where a posting requires substantive work only your team can do, that piece is yours, and we'll tell you up front what each opportunity will ask of you.
What we handle
- ✓Sourcing matched, winnable opportunities
- ✓Writing the proposal and narrative
- ✓Completing grantor forms from your information
- ✓Verifying every claim, number, and source
- ✓Tracking every application in your account
- ✓Submission support through each portal
- ✓Managing grantor communications while retained
Outside our scope
- –Work only your team can produce: drawings, designs, plans, research partnerships, prior studies
- –Post-award reporting and compliance — we'll refer excellent specialists; that's their craft, winning is ours
- –Forming or maintaining your nonprofit entity
- –Certifying or attesting to applications
- –Anything beyond writing and submitting grant applications
Apply to see if you qualify
We don't take everyone. Here's what we look for.
Screening is in your interest as much as ours — we only take organizations we believe we can win for. Four things matter:
A registered 501(c)(3) — or a clear, near-term path to forming one. Not there yet? Set it up now; we can start the moment you're eligible. You can also work through a financial intermediary in the meantime, though it narrows the funders open to you.
A real corpus — past applications, marketing materials, financials, and program and impact data. The stronger it is, the faster and sharper we work.
A mission that maps to fundable lanes — so we're pursuing grants you can actually win, not spraying applications and burning funder goodwill.
Basic eligibility — geography, focus area, and grantor requirements that fit your organization.
The 90-day guarantee
A win, a live deal, or your money back.
Grant decisions don't come back overnight — a yes can take weeks or months after filing. That's why the guarantee runs on a full 90-day engagement; it's the shortest window in which it can mean anything.
The clock starts once you're approved and your corpus is in our hands — not at signing — so we're never guaranteeing against time you still owe us.
If we haven't produced a win — or, where you've added Funder Introductions, put you in active due diligence with a foundation — by day 90, you can end the engagement.
Money back: if every application we submitted comes back declined, the program fee is refunded. While any application is still pending, it's a live shot — so the refund triggers only once 100% of what we filed is a final no.
Honest fine print
This tool is illustrative. The funding numbers reflect your inputs, not a forecast or a promise of any specific award.
Annual figures assume a sustained pipeline. Early months typically run lighter while the eligible-grant pipeline fills, then build toward the monthly pace shown.
Win rate and volume trade off: pushing more applications can mean lower-fit asks and a lower win rate. We optimize for grants you can actually win, not raw count.
We deliver completed, verified, filed applications — not award guarantees. Every application is approved by your organization before it goes out.
Comparison figures (in-house writers ~$6K–$7K/month each at 15–25 apps/yr; consultants $3K–$7.5K per app; ~30 hours per application self-prepared) are industry-typical reference points.
Grant funding generally requires registered 501(c)(3) status. Output quality and speed depend on the strength of the corpus you provide.