GrantLedger

Nonprofit-First Grantwriting

We handle your grants from research to submission. You only pay if you win, after you win.

You keep 77.5 cents of every dollar we win for your mission. Our success fee is 22.5% and we do not send invoices until awards are in your account.

See if we're a fit

Every grant dollar we win, on the ledger

77.5¢stays with your mission
22.5¢the success fee
The model

What is Nonprofit-First Grantwriting?

Nonprofit-First Grantwriting is $0 to start. Your organization gets the grant award before GrantLedger gets compensated. GrantLedger finds the foundations that fund work like yours, writes the applications in your voice, and submits them after your review. Our success fee is 22.5% of the grants we win together. Pay after you win. Only if you win.

Three things make Nonprofit-First Grantwriting different from every other option. We carry all the risk until you are funded. We leverage data and technologies that internal development teams, freelance grantwriters, and consultants do not have access to. And we only succeed when you succeed.

Traditional grantwriters and consultancies charge you for grants written. GrantLedger charges for grants won.
Comparing models

A hypothetical grant portfolio, two different ways

On a 30-application portfolio, the grantwriter-first model bills $2,000 to $5,000 per application before the charity sees a dollar. Here is the same portfolio, both ways.

The Losing-Costs-Nothing GuaranteeNonprofit-First Grantwriting is all upside. We can't guarantee that you win, but we do guarantee that you don't lose.
Grantwriter-firstGrantLedger
Grant portfolio30 apps30 apps
Cost per grant−$2K–$5K$0
Funder researchbilled on topincluded
When you payup frontafter award
Downside risked−$60K–$150K$0
Upside · $300K awarded+$150–240K+$232,500
How it works

3 simple steps to apply for ~30 grants.

1

Phase 1 Interview

About 2 hours
2

Grant-Ready Document Checklist

About 1 hour
3

Phase 2 Interview

About 2 hours

The Pre-Flight Review

You can veto any submission before it is filed.

About five hours total across the three steps, or roughly ten minutes per grant.

We have limited onboarding capacity.

Let us know who you are and we'll run your numbers to confirm the potential for a successful partnership. We work only with 501(c)(3) organizations looking to win grants from private foundations and corporate giving programs.

We spent six months building this quietly with nonprofits we knew. We're excited to bring Nonprofit-First Grantwriting to a wider audience.