A grant cycle is a department-sized job: find funders, screen opportunities, write LOIs and proposals, track deadlines, report, renew. The software market prices it like a department — databases run $199/year (GrantStation) to $999/month (Instrumentl Full Lifecycle), all subscriptions — while free templates are single files with no system between them. This kit is the department: the Go/No-Go screen before you write, the tracker that never misses a deadline, LOI and proposal skeletons that start from your own boilerplate, and reporting that turns one grant into the next. One payment of $56 — no subscription.
Get the kit — $56One zip of PDFs, spreadsheets, docs and a prompt pack: the full grants cycle (find → screen → prepare → write → submit → follow up → report → renew), working templates in XLSX/Sheets and DOCX/Docs, and an annual calendar — everything re-usable every year, against any funder. No software to install, nothing to subscribe to.
Five weighted criteria — mission fit, eligibility, deadline feasibility, match history, effort estimate — plus hard walk-away gates that don't negotiate. A 20-minute screen protects the 3–5 hours a first proposal costs.
One spreadsheet that answers the questions this field keeps asking: prospects, fit score, amount, deadline, status, owner, result — with a fiscal-year view and 7/30-day deadline views so nothing slips.
How to build your own prospect list from public data: 990 filings, grantee lists on funder websites, the funds already paying organizations like yours. We sell the method — never a database that expires.
The organizational assets every application reuses: mission one-pager, org history, fill-in needs statement, program descriptions, staff bios, impact metrics. Write them once; paste them for years.
Letters of inquiry for ten situations (general operating, program, capital, research and more), full proposal skeletons with section-by-section prompts, and the budget template with its narrative plus a NOFO checklist — process only, no rule interpretation.
The grant report skeleton, renewal and stewardship email templates, the "what changed" memo, a 12-month calendar sized for 2–4 hours a week, and an AI prompt pack that drafts from your boilerplate with the AI you already pay for.
Three real files from the kit, trimmed to taste: the Go/No-Go scorecard cut to its first four criteria, one complete LOI skeleton (general operating), and the first 10 rows of the grant pipeline tracker. Instant download — no email needed.
Verified against the vendors' public pricing pages at the time of writing (2026-09-25). Prices change — check before any purchase, including this one.
| What you get | Grant database subscription | Scattered free templates | This kit ($56 once) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Screening before you invest hours | Not included — they sell search | Not included | Weighted Go/No-Go scorecard + walk-away gates |
| Deadline and pipeline tracking | Inside their platform, while you pay | DIY spreadsheet | Tracker with fiscal-year + 7/30-day deadline views |
| LOI and proposal templates | Partial, hosted in their tool | Single files, no system | 10 LOI templates + 6 full proposal skeletons |
| A boilerplate library you own | No | No | Mission, history, needs statement, bios, metrics |
| Budget template + narrative | No | A lone budget sheet | Template + narrative + NOFO checklist |
| Reporting and stewardship after the award | Not their focus | None | Report skeleton + renewal/stewardship emails |
| Works with any funder | Yes, while the subscription lasts | Yes, but unstructured | Yes — it's a process, not data |
| Price | From $199/yr (GrantStation) to $299–999/mo (Instrumentl); Candid $100–219/mo; Grantable $50–150/mo | $0, no system | $56 once, forever |
Facts in this table come from the vendors' own pricing pages, captured 2026-09-25: Instrumentl $299–999/month (billed annually; $349–1,159 monthly), Candid $100–219/month, Grantable $50–150/month with a $300/month Agency Hub marked "coming soon", GrantStation $199/year. Prices change — check before any purchase, including this one.
No funding guarantees. Nobody can promise a grant — the odds depend on mission fit, the funder's budget that year, and who else applies. What the kit installs is the professional process: screen before you write, never miss a deadline, and build on assets you already own.
Process, not legal or compliance advice. The kit covers foundation, corporate and community grants. It deliberately stays out of US federal grants compliance — 2 CFR 200, indirect cost rates, single audits — and where a NOFO raises a compliance question, it tells you to check the program's own rules or a specialist, not to guess.
Not a database. Real hours. We don't sell funder data — it ages from the day it ships. The kit is the working system you point at any funder you find; the files are in English, the working language of the grant ecosystem. The first cycle takes real hours (roughly 3–5 per grant at first); the system is built so every round after runs faster.
From "we need funding" to a reported, renewable grants program — one system, every year.
Load the pipeline tracker, draft the boilerplate library from the fill-in templates, and hang the annual calendar where you'll see it. This is the only heavy lifting the kit will ever ask of you.
Run the scorecard before anything else. Below the walk-away gates, you've saved the 3–5 hours. Above them, the decision notes are already the first draft of your statement of need.
Submit from the skeletons, log the result in the tracker, file the report from the skeleton, send the stewardship email — and next year's renewal starts from notes, not from scratch.
No monthly plan, no per-seat fee, no annual renewal — grant databases already charge enough of those.
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No — and on purpose. Databases sell access to funder profiles and deadlines as a subscription: Instrumentl starts at $299/month, Candid at $100/month billed annually (both checked at the time of writing). Useful tools — but they don't write the proposal, screen the opportunity or file the report. This kit is the operating system around whatever funder list you have — free lists, library referrals, a database you already pay for — and after one payment it's yours.
A zip with the working system: 00-START-HERE.pdf (the annual map: find → screen → prepare → write → submit → follow up → report → renew, with time budgets per stage), the Go/No-Go scorecard + SOP (XLSX + PDF), the grant pipeline tracker (XLSX with fiscal-year and 7/30-day deadline views), the funder research SOP (PDF), the boilerplate library kit, 10 LOI templates, 6 full proposal skeletons, the budget pack (template + narrative + NOFO checklist), the reporting & stewardship kit, the AI prompt pack (Markdown), and the annual grants calendar (PDF). No software to install.
We can't promise that, and you should be skeptical of anyone who does — grant decisions belong to funders. What the kit changes: you stop sinking afternoons into grants you were never eligible for (the scorecard's job), you stop missing deadlines (the tracker's job), and you stop rewriting your mission statement from scratch every time (the boilerplate's job). More applications, better chosen, on time — measured, not promised.
The process works on any application, but the kit deliberately stays out of federal compliance territory: 2 CFR 200, indirect cost rates and single audits are regulated specialties. The budget pack includes a checklist of what to verify in any NOFO — process, not interpretation — and the kit says plainly where specialist help starts.
That's who the calendar is sized for. The system's whole point is spending those hours where they pay: a 20-minute screen before every application, a tracker that tells you which deadline is next, and boilerplate you paste instead of rewrite. The 12-month calendar spaces the work so no single week is heavy.
Yes. The tracker and templates are built to be re-instantiated per client — that's the productized-service angle: run each client's grants program on the same system. The single-buyer commercial license covers your own projects and client work; reselling or sharing the kit files themselves isn't included.
If the kit doesn't fit how you work, write to us within 14 days of purchase and we refund in full — the files are yours to keep or delete. One refund per purchase; we only ask for optional feedback.
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